This book, by Daniel Farson, had the author travelling through the Caucasus as his father had previously done in 1929. Seems his parents were both in Russia before the Revolution. He quotes from his mother the following little anecdotes. She was working at the Anglo-Russian Hospital in Petrograd, and described when Empress Maria Fedorovna came with Olga and Tatiana to open it..."We heard a crowd moving slowly up the stairs, and a small dowdy woman in black, like a plain edition of our Alexandra, but with a very sweet expression, came in...The two little princesses, Olga and Tatiana, came and looked quite charming and so pretty in little ermine hatswith white ospreys in themand little low-necked rose-coloured frocks and ermine furs and muffs. Olga is the prettiest and really lovely I thought, and so jolly-looking and natural." The mother ends up sitting by the knees on the ground by MF. There is a photo in the book, and I have seen it elsewhere too, perhaps in Love, Power and Tragedy. Maybe someone can post it. She also described Anastasia as "a little girl with her hair down her back and an Alice-in-Wonderland comb." and Alexei on the "unforgettable day when the little Tsarevitch came, one of the most beautiful children I ever saw." Also mentions how Dmitry and Felix Yusupov burst into the hospital covered in blood after killing Rasputin.
