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« on: December 30, 2013, 04:30:19 PM »
Besides diaries and memoirs there still is another good source: the daily newspapers. In this matter we can read in Novoe Vremya December 1st 1916 page 7, that GD Elizaveta Feodorovna had arrived by train from Moscow on November 30th. From the railway station she first went to the St Peter and Paul Cathedral to pay her respects to the grave of Alexander III. Then she visited the Chapel of Our Savior (on Nevsky Prospekt, between the Gostiny Dvor and the Municipal Council (Gosudarstvennaya Duma), it was demolished in 1929), the Kazan Cathedral, also on Nevsky, the Ioannovsky Convent (founded by St John of Kronstadt, still excisting, on Karpovka canal), and the Nikolo-Alexandrovsky church (on Prospekt Bakunina, demolished in 1932),and only after these visits she went to Tsarskoe Selo.
In next day's paper, on page 7 there is a short notice: On Dec 1st GD Elizaveta Feodorovna had left for Moscow.
In Russia, before the Revolution, and later, in the Soviet Union, people learned to read between the lines. Maybe in this case, due to the shortness of this second notice, they could understand, that the visit of GD Elizaveta had not been a success?
Rudy
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