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A Russian Grand Duchess--One of the Heroes of Solferino--A Political Humanitarian--Story of the Chereau Abduction--A Specific for Asthma -- Medical Memoranda -- Anecdote of Alexander Dumas.

Long before the Dianas and Kates and Meghans of the royal world, the public were obsessed with Russia's famed grand duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia Romanov.

The intimate connection between Brasol, the Russian monarchistic and anti-Semitic propagandist, and the Grand Duchess Cyril was revealed when a reception was given the Grand Duchess by a number of ...

Eugenia Smetisko, who lived in Newport from 1971 to her death in 1997, claimed to be the Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov, seen in the portrait at right. Little has been recorded about ...

“I am of no party,” smiled the Grand Duke, and presently charmed his guests by chatting not only of himself and Russia but about the two other Romanov grand dukes who were most in the public ...

The last Russian Tsar and the real-life murder mystery of Grand Duchess Anastasia The last Tsar of Russia took to the throne more than a century ago, but after Nicholas II and his family were ...

These gruesome relics he handed over to M. de Giers, quondam Russian Ambassador to Rome, and the latter has, apparently, handed them over to the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievitch, cousin of the ...

Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna was the first Romanov to marry into the British royal family. Between her jealousy-fueled rivalry with her mother-in-law, Queen Victoria, to her loveless marriage ...