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THE CHILDREN OF THE TSAR
Grand Duchess Olga Grand Duchess Marie	Grand Duchess Tatiana Grand Duchess Anastasia
The Tsarevitch Alexis
Photos: Boissonnas & Eggler, St. Petersburg

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With
Twenty-Three Illustrations in Photogravure


Cassell and Company, Limited
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
1913

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PUBLISHER’S NOTE

Some thirty years ago considerable interest was aroused by thepublication, in the Nouvelle Revue, of Letters dealing with theSociety of the different European capitals. These letters were by CountPaul Vassili.

They were clever, amusing, and, it must be owned, rather ill-naturedletters. People wondered at the extraordinary amount of truth which theycontained, at the secrets they revealed. The real name of their authorto this day has never been disclosed; yet Count Vassili existed. He heldan important post at the Russian Court, he had travelled widely, andeverywhere had been welcomed as befitted his rank in the world. Cynical,intelligent, and wonderfully observant of everything that went on aroundhim, his greatest interest in life was to commit to the leaves of adiary all that he saw or heard.

That diary, which stretches from the time of the Crimean War to thepresent year, it was his intention to publish before he died. Alas,death came too soon. The Count passed away a few months ago.

Nevertheless, the volumes which contained this diary became accessible,and their contents are now given to the public with the conviction thatthey will be read with the same interest that always attended thewritings of Count Vassili.

At the same time, we would warn the reader that the present volume isnot historical, but merely anecdotal. Yet sometimes anecdotes are alsohistory. They very often explain events wide in their influence over theaffairs of the world in general and Royal Houses in{vi}<

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