Alexandra (57 page)

1
. Levine, p. 139.

2
. Alexandra,
Last Diary
, p. 186. Yurovsky noted in his memoirs that he allowed Alexei to keep his watch.

3
. The tutor Gibbs estimated that this jewellery was worth a hundred thousand pounds. Anthony Summers and Tom Mangold,
The File on the Tsar
(New York, 1976), p. 78.

4
.
Ibid
., p. 49.

5
. Alexandra,
Last Diary
, p. 197, note.

6
. In 1918, arsenic was at times prescribed for both nervous disorders and rheumatism. Though arsenic was notorious as a
poison, arsenic compounds were also ingested as a tonic, and in some parts of Austria arsenic was eaten regularly. Alix’s strong pains are noted in
Last Diary
, pp. 192–3,
195–6.

7
. Victor Alexandrov,
The End of the Romanovs
(London, 1966), p. 217.

8
. Buxhoeveden, p. 327.

9
.
Lifelong Passion
, p. 633.

10
.
Ibid
., p. 634.

11
. This account of the Romanovs’ final hour is taken from Yurovsky’s description of what happened, in
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Imperial Family
, p. 381. Other accounts differ in details.

12
. Tatiana’s Pekinese Jimmy perished with the family in the early morning of July 17. Alexei’s spaniel Joy was
found at the Ipatiev house on the day following the executions, and was taken in by one of the guards. Summers and Mangold, p. 53. Of the third dog, Ortipo, which the family brought from Tsarskoe
Selo to Tobolsk, and perhaps to Ekaterinburg, there is no record. Many secondary books give erroneous information about the family dogs.

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