Behind the veil at the Russian court
by Princess Catherine Radziwill
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About this eBook
- Author
- Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941
- Credits
- Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DK: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Russia, Former Soviet Republics, Poland
- Subject
- Russia -- History -- Alexander II, 1855-1881
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 61886
- Release Date
- April 21, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Behind the Veil at the Russian Court By Count Paul Vassili — PUBLISHER’S NOTE — CONTENTS — LIST OF PHOTOGRAVURES
- 2.BOOK I. 1855-1894 BEHIND THE VEIL AT THE RUSSIAN COURT — CHAPTER I NICHOLAS I. DIES — CHAPTER II ALEXANDER II. ON THE THRONE — CHAPTER III ANECDOTES OF THE IMPERIAL FAMILY — CHAPTER IV THE INFLUENCE OF THE GRAND DUCHESS HÉLÈNE PAVLOVNA — CHAPTER V THE REFORMS OF ALEXANDER II. AND HIS MINISTERS — CHAPTER VI THE ADLERBERGS AND THE SCHOUVALOFFS — CHAPTER VII ST. PETERSBURG BEFORE THE WAR OF 1877-8 — CHAPTER VIII THE EASTERN WAR AND AFTERWARDS — CHAPTER IX THE BERLIN CONGRESS AND ITS CONSEQUENCES — CHAPTER X ALEXANDER’S LOVE AFFAIRS — CHAPTER XI ASSASSINATION OF ALEXANDER II. — CHAPTER XII ALEXANDER III. AND HIS CONSORT — CHAPTER XIII THE IMPERIAL FAMILY IN 1881 — CHAPTER XIV THE FRIENDS AND MINISTERS OF ALEXANDER III. — CHAPTER XV ALEXANDER III IS CROWNED — CHAPTER XVI ST. PETERSBURG SOCIETY FROM 1883 TO 1894 — CHAPTER XVII THE FOREIGN POLICY OF ALEXANDER III. — CHAPTER XVIII ALEXANDER’S MINISTERS — CHAPTER XIX THE POLICE UNDER ALEXANDER III. — CHAPTER XX THE TRUTH ABOUT BORKY — CHAPTER XXI LAST DAYS AT LIVADIA
- 3.BOOK II. 1894-1913 — CHAPTER I FUNERAL AND WEDDING BELLS — CHAPTER II A CHARACTER SKETCH OF NICHOLAS II. — CHAPTER III THE EMPRESS ALIX — CHAPTER IV THE IMPERIAL FAMILY TO-DAY — CHAPTER V THE ZEMSTVO OF TVER INCIDENT AND WHAT CAME OF IT — CHAPTER VI THE ENTOURAGE OF THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS — CHAPTER VII THE CORONATION OF NICHOLAS II. — CHAPTER VIII THE SPRINGTIDE OF DISCONTENT — CHAPTER IX THE WAR WITH JAPAN — CHAPTER X MUKDEN AND TSUSHIMA — CHAPTER XI THE BIRTH OF THE TSAREVITCH — CHAPTER XII THE DEATH OF MADEMOISELLE VIETROFF — CHAPTER XIII THE BEGINNING OF THE REVOLUTION — CHAPTER XIV PEACE WITH JAPAN; WAR AT HOME — CHAPTER XV THE FIRST TWO DUMAS — CHAPTER XVI THE CAREER OF M. STOLYPIN — CHAPTER XVII A CHARACTER SKETCH OF M. KOKOVTSOV — CHAPTER XVIII THE FOREIGN OFFICE UNDER NICHOLAS II. — CHAPTER XIX ST. PETERSBURG SOCIETY AT THE PRESENT DAY — CHAPTER XX THE EMPRESS ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA AND HER CHILDREN — CHAPTER XXI THE 300TH ANNIVERSARY OF A DYNASTY
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