My Memories of the Imperial Family

by Semyon Pavlovich Pavlov, translated and annotated by Greg King

At the beginning of World War I, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna established three infirmaries at Tsarskoye Selo: the House for the Care of Crippled Soldiers; the Red Cross Community Infirmary; and the Palace Hospital, located in the former apartments of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich and those which had been given to Alexander II’s mistress and morganatic …