RUSSIA: Matoushka Tsaritza

" Matoushka Tsaritza "

At the royal Danish palace of Amalienborg a choir of Cossacks sang last week from full hearts to a little, weazened, dry old lady who contrived with an effort to sit upright and queenly in an invalid's wheel chair. She is Princess Dagmar of Denmark, daughter of the late King Christian IX, more famed as the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna of all the Russias, widow of the Tsar Alexander III, mother of the executed Tsar Nicholas II, sister of the assassinated King George of Greece, venerable aunt of the...

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