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Their World and Culture / Gypsy music

« on: April 11, 2012, 11:22:08 PM »

So in doing some light research gypsy music recordings from the 1900-1917, I've found some great gems, but unfortunately many of them are extremely obscure. I recently found this recording, although it is most definitely NOT from the 1900-1917 timeframe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvxMWfB0TYM

I'm hoping for some more info. So far it seems like the information presented is wrong, or at least from what I can tell from the comments. Maybe a recording from the Moscow gypsy theater? Does anyone recognize it? Or have a better recording of it? Any other recommendations for gypsy music from both Tsarist (what would have played at the Villa Rhode) and Soviet times?

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Books about the Romanovs and Imperial Russia / Authors

« on: January 18, 2012, 09:59:21 AM »

Hi everyone,

I figured the forum would be a great resource for my request - I'm a health/science reporter based in Chicago and hoping to get in touch with a Russian author to discuss the historical repercussions of hemophilia on Nicholas II and his family. Specifically I'm hoping to get in touch with Robert K. Massie (whose son also has hemophilia) or Greg King. I'm looking for either a middleman source that can put me in touch with them or ask them to contact me. I don't want personal home numbers or anything like that. If you can, please message me privately on the forum! Thanks so much for any help anyone can give.

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Imperial Russian History / St. Petersburg Imperial phone books

« on: December 27, 2011, 12:51:33 AM »

I've read in various sources that there are phone books from Imperial St. Petersburg available...does anybody know where one can get access to these great resources?

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Imperial Russian History / Prohibition in Imperial Russia

« on: September 29, 2011, 04:08:00 PM »

Hey, can anyone give me a little more information about prohibition in Imperial Russia? I've read it was widely supported, but that it was just for public places? I'm a little unclear, because I've read accounts, memoirs, anecdotes that still involved booze after the time it was imposed. Any extra info or reading materials I could use would be greatly appreciated.

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Tatiana Nicholaievna / Wild story on wikipedia

« on: September 18, 2011, 02:30:39 PM »

Now I realize wikipedia is not by any means a reliable, scholarly source, but sometimes it can be a skeletal outline. Anyways, I was reading Grand Duchess Tatiana's article and came across this bizarre passage: "Tatiana was rumored to have been present at Rasputin's murder on 17 December 1916, 'disguised as a lieutenant of the Chevaliers-Gardes, so that she could revenge herself on Rasputin who had tried to violate her.' It was also rumored that Rasputin was castrated in front of Tatiana, wrote Maurice Paléologue, the French ambassador to Russia, in his memoirs. Paléologue was skeptical at the time about the truth of the wild rumors and attributed them to the hatred of Rasputin held by people in St. Petersburg.[30]"

I've seen some wild stuff on wikipedia before, like Rasputin being able to shoot black fire out of his hands or something like that, but usually the articles get cleaned up by knowledgeable writers. Is this wild rumor about Tatiana something anyone has heard about before? In the days between Rasputin's death and the discovery of his corpse, there were a lot of wild rumors. That he had been made to commit suicide, that he had been beheaded, etc. I never heard this as one of those rumors, but because they quoted Paleologue, I am curious to know more. Can anyone shed some more light on this legend?

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Rasputin / Bishop Hermogen's Murder

« on: October 07, 2007, 10:53:28 PM »

Does anyone have any information on Bishop Hermogen's murder by the Bolsheviks in 1918?  I know that he was drowned in a river, but anything else?  Precise date?  Who was with him?  Photographs of the area or murderers? 

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Books about the Romanovs and Imperial Russia / What are they working on now?

« on: January 07, 2007, 05:07:43 PM »

Just wondering what some authors are working on and if we should expect anything anytime soon.  I'm interested in authors such as Greg King and Penny Wilson (I'm sure they may answer this for us), Edvard Radzinsky, Peter Kurth, Robert Massie, and Robert Alexander ("The Kitchen Boy", "Rasputin's Daughter").  Is there anything on the horizon?  This is probably a repeated question, but it takes a while to comb through all the threads to find an answer. 

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Rasputin / Rasputin's devotees

« on: January 05, 2007, 01:13:55 PM »

Does anyone know what happened to some of Rasputin's followers during and after the Revolution?  "The Rasputin File" by Edvard Radzinsky gives info on some of them, but he neglects a few important people such as:

Maria "Munya" Golovina
Akilina Laptinskaya
Georgy Sazonov
Leonid Molchanov
Baroness Kusova
Sheila Lunts (Protopopov's mistress)
Dmitry Rubinstein (the Jewish banker)
Alexei Filippov (his publisher)
Evdokia "Dunya" Pechyorkina (the live-in servant)
Ekaterina "Katya" Pechyorkina (her niece?)
and Anna Rasputin (his niece--and how exactly was she related to him?)

Rasputin's followers are such an interesting aspect of his life.  Radzinsky writes on page 498, "It would take a long time to exhaust the matyrology of Rasputin's friends who died from Bolshevik bullets" but I think he neglects some really important people.