“In the evening after supper, Nicholas often sat in the family drawing room reading aloud while his wife and daughters sewed or embroidered. His choice, said Anna Vyrubova, who spent many of these cozy evenings with the Imperial family, might be Tolstoy, Turgenev or his own favorite, Gogol. On the other hand, to please the ladies, it might be a fashionable English novel. Nicholas read equally well in Russian, English and French and he could manage in German and Danish.”
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
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Robert K. Massie
Robert K. Massie is an American historian renowned for his in-depth studies of Russian history. His works cover a broad period from Peter the Great to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. more
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