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Sounds interesting. I'm a little backed up at the moment but will certainly put this on my list for potential future reading. Being the homer that I am I'm drawn in a little closer by "Fanny's" Philly connection too :-)

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Thanks  amelia , I'll check that out!

That looks good amelia, I love older court memoirs ...just the language alone is fun. How did you and your husband come to publish this? Is there a family connection with Fanny?  And where does Uzbekistan  come in ? Also,  have you started a thread for the book?  Thanks again

We are not related to FannyLear at all, but 5 years ago when my husband gave me one of the 30 books that she wrote and were sold (a very expensive book), I decided to search the French newspapers of the time.Well, I found a lot of articles, specially in Le Figaro. I researched day by day from 1869 to 1886 and I have a high folder full of them. Also from Philadelphia, and the National Archives. It was unbelievable when I found anything, very exciting. Then we decided to check in Russia, where there is nothing not even his birth certificate. Then France, where we found her death certificate. The best was Uzbekistan - we were able to speak to an Historian that researches the life of Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich, he took us to see the palace and gave us a lot of information. In fact he is going to translate my book into uzbeck. The palace is in the middle of Tashkent and nobody knows anything about it, about the person who lived there, etc. He does not know anything about Fanny Lear and is very pleased that I wrote a book with her book's translation, so people in Tashkent can learn about the Grand Duke. The palace is absolutely beautiful and also  the Tashkent Museum of Arts has his art collection including the marble statue that he commissioned in Italy. It is a life size statue.In the overall it was a wonderful experience.

Eva McDonald
(Amelia)

Does anyone know when the second book in Christina Croft's Shattered Crowns trilogy will be coming out? I just loved The Scapegoats and am really looking forward to the next one!

The Kindle edition of the second book in the trilogy is now available: http://www.christinacroft.blogspot.nl/2012/06/shattered-crowns-sacrifice.html .

New, the 1917 & 1918 diaries of Tsar Nicholas and Empress Alexandra in English at Van Hoogstraten.   Www.hoogstraten.nl

New, the 1917 & 1918 diaries of Tsar Nicholas and Empress Alexandra in English at Van Hoogstraten.   Www.hoogstraten.nl

Nicholas's in english... wow! Thank you!

And of course also the diary of the Empress Alexandra of 1917 in English. A must have for the serious Romanov fan.

Wow ! Wonderful news. Do You know when exactly the will be on sale ? This autumn  already ?

LadyH.

They are already on sale. You can order them at Van Hoogstraten. So just go to www.hoogstraten.nl . They already for sale.

Thank You Teddy ! They -the books- will be my next royal "purchase" .
LadyH.

"In English" for the diaries of Tsar Nicholas II must mean translated from the Russian originals.

But I wonder if the Empress' are her original English, or translated back into English from the published Russian translation?

Dear Inok Nikolai, I don't think that it matter to many of us. We so many books only available in Russian, such as the diaries of GD Serge of the Tsarina Maria F. that we are already happy that at least these books are published in a language we can read.

"In English" for the diaries of Tsar Nicholas II must mean translated from the Russian originals.

But I wonder if the Empress' are her original English, or translated back into English from the published Russian translation?

I'm also curious to know who did the translating/editing. The quality of the translation can make or break a book like this.