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« Reply #105 on: July 03, 2013, 08:17:32 AM »
Is this the book? http://krymology.info/index.php/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%8B_%D0%B8_%D0%9A%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%BC_%28%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B0%29    Anyone know where I can pick up a copy for a reasonable price?  Or if anyone has it, would it be possible to scan the pages dealing with the code and email them to me? Thanks!

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« Reply #106 on: July 03, 2013, 11:05:39 AM »
Yes, that's the book - same cover. The picture is used as an illustration in the chapter about Olga's feelings for Pavel Voronov, which includes only a few lines specifically about the code.

Do you read German, or are you interested in scans from the Russian edition only?
"The Correspondence of the Empress Alexandra of Russia with Ernst Ludwig and Eleonore, Grand Duke and Duchess of Hesse. 1878-1916"
"Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig and Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine in Italy - 1893"
"Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine - Gebhard Zernin's Festschrift"

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« Reply #107 on: July 08, 2013, 05:31:39 PM »
Yes, that's the book - same cover. The picture is used as an illustration in the chapter about Olga's feelings for Pavel Voronov, which includes only a few lines specifically about the code.

Do you read German, or are you interested in scans from the Russian edition only?

I got the pages I needed, Svetabel was kind enough to send them to me. Thank you!

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« Reply #109 on: July 08, 2013, 05:39:20 PM »
The picture is used as an illustration in the chapter about Olga's feelings for Pavel Voronov, which includes only a few lines specifically about the code.

I will try to decode the coded lines in the 1915 diary, but unfortunately it doesn't look like all lettersare presented in the sample but only about 1/3 of them, so I may not be able to do it... I don't have a lot of time before the book goes to print, so I may not be able to do it... But perhaps it will be an interesting exercise for the reader to do - try to decode what she wrote, as I plan on including the image of the code the way it was written in her diary in the book  ;)

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« Reply #110 on: July 09, 2013, 04:23:56 PM »
Any idea when the book will be available for pre-order in the U.S.?

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« Reply #111 on: July 10, 2013, 10:43:18 PM »
I plan on including the image of the code the way it was written in her diary in the book  ;)

Great idea.

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« Reply #112 on: July 11, 2013, 01:38:22 PM »
Any idea when the book will be available for pre-order in the U.S.?

Apparently there has been a technical glitch on US feed, including on Amazon and some other distribution sites, but the publisher is working on it, and it should be very soon!

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« Reply #113 on: July 11, 2013, 01:48:40 PM »
I have an interesting exercise for those of you who may be good at cracking codes... As seen on this thread earlier, Olga occasionally wrote in code in her diaries, and apparently this code has been cracked, but as far as I know only certain letters of the code have been published, not all.

Here I have an excerpt from her 1915 diary written in this code, and would like to be able to include what it says in the book before it goes to press. If someone here is able to do it, you will get a honorable acknowledgement as well as a free copy of the book. If you don't know Cyrillic, it's not a problem, if you can figure out which letter is which, I can try to do the rest. Here is goes: the cracked code words are on top, while the writing on the bottom is what I need to crack and figure out what she wrote. Not all the letters line up on top image, but you have to count them to see what corresponds to what.

This is Olga's own handwriting, directly from her diary, and I am pretty sure she is talking about one of her love interests, possibly Pavel Voronov... Give it a shot. Thanks!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=548570218525579&set=a.124297104286228.15365.113360175379921&type=1&theater

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« Reply #114 on: July 11, 2013, 02:03:11 PM »
Extremely well done by all those cryptanalysts who found the key to not only Olga's code ,but to  the secrets of her heart too, it seems.
 Now's not the time to rest on your laurels though!



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« Reply #117 on: July 13, 2013, 01:33:36 AM »
Hi Helen! I have read the coded line yesterday, but for any reason you haven't seen my answer(( I can't use facebook well, so I duplicate it here: "<he>felt sick, it was a shame, <he> couldn't look in eyes to anybody and himself..." - "тошнило было такъ стыдно не могъ никому въ глаза смотреть и самъ". 
Have you got anymore?:) Ilike it!

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« Reply #118 on: July 13, 2013, 10:23:36 AM »
Hi Helen! I have read the coded line yesterday, but for any reason you haven't seen my answer(( I can't use facebook well, so I duplicate it here: "<he>felt sick, it was a shame, <he> couldn't look in eyes to anybody and himself..." - "тошнило было такъ стыдно не могъ никому въ глаза смотреть и самъ". 
Have you got anymore?:) Ilike it!

Thank you so much, I sent you a message on FB :)

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