Which book has the allusion to GDs Sergei and Dmitry? I'm unaware of that one......] Actually, please don't answer that here -- we're straying off topic.
the question was asked and remains here on this thread...the answer is
"The Court of the Last Tsar: Pomp, Power and Pageantry in the Reign of Nicholas II "
page 80
move it all where you will =)
I did not know about it because i don't have the book; but i remembered that also Kurth mentioned the rumor about the train rape (not only for poor Olga: for all three of them) in Tsar: the lost world, page 190 in my tranlslated edition. But he points out it was a rumor - as Bless said, maybe this idea came from the Rus rumors.
Thanks for taking the time and trouble to check this out; other posters should do the same before firing off their posts.
Peter Kurth is referring to information about the behaviour of the guards on the
Rus first published by Edvard Radzinsky in his "Last Tsar". His book and Radzinsky's both came out long before the discussion in "Fate of Romanovs" to which the poster named "BlessOTMA" apparently refers. Kurth has mixed up the context, and he doesn't quite say it was a rumour; he says "no one knows" what really happened. His and Radzinsky's works - and Kurth discussed questions of sexual assault in his book on Anna Anderson as well, I believe - both go to show that alleged assaults had been widely discussed years before Fate of the Romanovs appeared and examined the question to widespread hysteria and misrepresentation.
