Tchaikovsky is either Grand Duchess Anastasia or a miracle. —Ambassador Sergei Botkin, president of the Russian Refugee Office in Berlin, 1926 One Romanov claim stood apart from the others. From her appearance in 1920 to her death in 1984, the identity of the woman known variously as Fräulein Unb...
Petersburg after saying goodbye to her mother, Catherine immediately asked for Maria Zhukova. Before her marriage, the empress had added to Catherine’s small court a group of young Russian ladies-in-waiting to help the German-speaking bride-to-be improve her Russian. Catherine was delighted to ha...