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Books about the Romanovs and Imperial Russia / The End of Rasputin - book by Felix Yussupov

« on: February 28, 2007, 12:57:34 PM »

I am just curios, he was one of the most powerful and wealthiest person in Russia, and yet he killed Rasputin. Browsing through his book "The End of Rasputin", I found interesting information about situation in Russia back in 1905-1918, also Felix's opinion on Russian nobility.
Now, I am not an expert, but some of the statements he made, start me think about authenticity of this book, any opinion on this?

Here my thoughts:
Book was printed in 1926 and prince Dimitri Mirsky (Svyatopolk-Mirsky) was in exile, he returned back to USSR 1932, and was coauthor of infamous "Vyrubova diaries", I think style in some degree correlates to "The End of Rasputin".
Maybe I am too much in to conspiracy theory, but if this is true - we have the answer to our question: "Why autopsy report is so different from Yussupov's  story?"

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News Links / one of Romanov's has died at age of 91

« on: February 08, 2007, 04:35:37 PM »

Born at Tsarskoye Selo, he was the son of Carlo del Renzio, an Italian aristocrat attached to the Russian court. His mother, Nina Maria, was a Romanov and the great-granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I.
http://www.virtualpushkin.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=103&Itemid=1&lang=eng

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Meet the People / Russian Celebrities

« on: August 29, 2006, 01:17:53 AM »

I would like to start topic - Russian Celebrities, who lived and visit Tsarskoye Selo – Pushkin.
I will start backwards in time:
A.N Tolstoi 1937
Famos russian writer, best known for his historical writing (Peter I) and children books including Russian version of the Pinocchio  - Buratino. he was one of two "authors", for the infamous "Vyrubova diaries"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksey_Nikolayevich_Tolstoy

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov - 1935
Pavlov was widely known for first describing the phenomenon now known as classical conditioning in his experiments with dogs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Pavlov

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Pushkin Town History / post October 1917 revolution White Army

« on: August 27, 2006, 02:07:46 AM »

I don’t think story of the Romanoff family, as well Tsarskoye Selo, can exist without Russian White officers, who defend, Russia from Communists, and Lenin during 1917-1922th. This period, very controversial, even for Russians, when brother - fought brother.
The most interesting part, this period raised from both sides (white and reds) tremendous amount of folk songs and stories, and post USSR, nations taking a lot of pride to listen and be part of it.
So, I would like to share with AP community, this part of the "Russian soul".

http://virtualpushkin.com/alexanderpalace/music/Malinin_-_Beloe_na_sinem.mp3

http://virtualpushkin.com/alexanderpalace/music/Malinin_-_poruchik_galicyn.mp3

http://virtualpushkin.com/alexanderpalace/music/malinin-gori_gori_moya_zvezda.mp3

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Pushkin Town History / Alexander Palace today

« on: August 03, 2006, 02:20:19 AM »

I found really good photo site:




and many more photos

Here the link:
http://www.photocity.ru/Album122/idx_en.php?num=1

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Pushkin Town History / German occupation

« on: August 01, 2006, 05:19:44 PM »

Folks, I would like to ask if anyone knows about Pushkin 194Xs during occupation, some stories with photos. I found some information, during occupation it was several Divisions, one of them: Blue Division (Spanish División Azul), also known as 250. Infanterie-Division.

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Pushkin Town History / Feodorovsky Cathedral

« on: July 31, 2006, 01:54:36 AM »

I found some pictures, I would like to share with everyone of the Feodorovsky Cathedral from following print:
Fedorovsky Imperial Cathedral in Tsarskoye Selo. М.: A.Levenson's Society printing office, 1915.