The Life and Tragedy of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. The Story of a Lady-in-Waiting and Close Friend Who Was with the Russian Royal Family During the Years of Reign and the Tragic Days of Exile
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The Life and Tragedy of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. The Story of a Lady-in-Waiting and Close Friend Who Was with the Russian Royal Family During the Years of Reign and the Tragic Days of Exile
14.99 €
Baroness Buxhoeveden (1883-1956), the first biographer of the Russian Empress, was for many years not only a lady-in-waiting, but also a devoted friend of the royal family. Sofia Karlovna, the daughter of the Russian ambassador to Denmark, tells with great love but impartially about the life of the Hessian princess from early childhood to her last days. Isa, as the Baroness was called at court, was constantly with Alexandra Feodorovna from 1913 until the Romanovs' exile to Tobolsk, and then followed them. Sofia Karlovna managed to capture many sketches from the life of her patroness in happy times and in days of great sorrows and grief, to preserve invaluable information about the relationships in the family, to note the character traits of the august couple and their children, to describe the peculiarities of everyday life and to convey the atmosphere of life at court. On the pages of the book, Alexandra Feodorovna appears not only as an empress, but, above all, as a loving mother and wife, a good friend and generous philanthropist, who worked tirelessly for the good of her country and accepted a martyr's death together with her entire family.
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