“There is no need to talk about the significance of the memories of Anna Alexandrovna Vyrubova, née Taneyeva: it is self-evident. Of all the outsiders, A. A. Taneyeva over the past twenty years stood closest to the royal family and knew it better than many. Taneyeva was all this time like an intermediary between Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and the outside world. She knew almost everything that the empress knew: people, deeds, and thoughts. She experienced both the happy days of greatness and the first, most bitter moments of humiliation with the royal family. She did not break off relations with her almost until the very end, finding ways to maintain correspondence in incredibly difficult conditions. For her closeness to the royal family, she was subjected to severe persecution both from the Provisional Government and from the Bolsheviks. Slander did not spare her either. The name Vyrubova still, in the eyes of a certain part of Russian society, remains the embodiment of something reprehensible, some kind of intrigue and endless secrets of the court.” The book also includes photographs of the daily life of the last Russian emperor. Six albums and about three thousand photographs are kept today at Yale University. Many photographs are published for the first time.

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