Englische Dokumentation über die letzte Zarenfamilie:
1a. The Romanov Four Sisters: Before the Storm
1b. The Romanov Four Sisters: The Tragic End
Lesetipps: 1. Michael von Griechenland: Nikolaus und Alexandra. Die letzte Zarenfamilie - ganz privat. München 1992 (herrliches Bildmaterial!)
2. Sophie Buxhoeveden: The life and tragedy of Alexandra Feodorovna, empress of Russia (ersparen Sie sich die historisch sehr einseitig beschriebene Einführung des Buches von J. C. Squire). London, New York and Toronto 1929
3. Anna Vyrubova: Memories of the Russian Court. London 1923
4. Pierre Gilliard: Thirteen Years at the Russian Court. New York 1921 (sehr interessant!), pp. 170-172/198: "I [Pierre Gilliard] have explained above that in the autumn of 1915 the Berlin Government had realised that they could never overthrow Russia as long as she [Russia] stood united round the Czar, and that from that moment her [Berlin Government] one idea had been to provoke a revolution which would involve the fall of Nicholas II. In view of the difficulties of attacking the Czar directly, the Germans had concentrated their efforts against the Czarina and begun a subterranean campaign of defamation against her. It was skilfully planned and began to show results before long. They had stopped at nothing in the way of calumny. They had adopted the classic procedure, so well known to history, of striking the monarch in the person of his consort. It is, of course, always easier to damage the reputation of a woman, especially when she is a foreigner. Realising all the advantages to be derived from the fact that the Czarina was a German princess, they had endeavoured to suggest very cunningly that she was a traitor to Russia. It was the best method of compromising her in the eyes of the nation. The accusation had been favourably received in certain quarters in Russia and had become a formidable weapon against the dynasty. The Czarina knew all about the campaign in progress against her and it pained her as a most profound injustice, for she had accepted her new country, as she had adopted her new faith, with all the fervour of her nature. She was Russian by sentiment as she was orthodox by conviction. My residence behind the front also enabled me to realise how much the country was suffering from the war. The weariness and privations were causing general discontent. As a result of the increasing shortage of rolling-stock, fuel, which had been cruelly scarce in the winter, continued to be unpurchasable. It was the same with food, and the cost of living continued to rise at an alarming rate. ... To finish her work of destruction, Germany had only to give Lenin and his disciples a plentiful supply of money and let them loose on Russia."
5. Lili Dehn: The Real Tsaritsa. London 1922
und weitere Videotipps:
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Remembering the Romanov Children
Captivity Years: Tsarskoe Selo
Captivity Years: The Last Days of the Romanovs
Eyewitness Accounts: 1917 Interview with Anna Vyrubova
Later Memoirs of Anna Vyrubova
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Romanovs: The Missing Bodies (National Geographic)
The identification of the missing Romanov children
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Dagmar von Dänemark, die Mutter von Zar Nikolaus II.
Zar Alexander III., der Vater von Zar Nikolaus II.
Olga Alexandrovna, sister of the Tzar, the last of the Romanovs
Die Eltern und Geschwister der Zarin Alexandra
Elizabeth Feodorovna, eine Schwester der Zarin Alexandra
Nikolaus II. - als Kind und Jugendlicher
The Empire of the Tzars (part 2)
The Empire of the Tzars (part 3)
Für mich ist die letzte russische Zarenfamilie so interessant, weil meine Urgroßmutter Elisabeth Vogt in dieser Familie als "Bonne" (= Kindermädchen) für die Prinzessinnen Olga und Tatiana von 1901 bis 1912 tätig war (Abbn. 1-2).
