...Grand Duchess with the smallest number of pretenders. 1) Concetta Fedele, appeared in Argentina where she died. She and her brother and sister claimed to be children of Nicholas II. 2) Margda Bodts (1895-1976, appeared first in France in 1930 but reappeared in North Italy nine years later. She was...

...Chakh-Bagov. Chebotareva wrote that Olga’s love for him was “pure, naive, without hope” and that she tried to avoid revealing her feelings to the others.   She talked to him regularly on the telephone, was depressed when he left the hospital, and jumped about exuberantly when she received a...

...Romanov Family’s Alphabet  -  M  is for the  Mauve Boudoir . When Alexandra came to Russia she was involved for the first time in creating her own living spaces.   She was inexperienced and most of what she knew about decorating came from magazines and the advice she had received over the...