Sofia Tyutcheva: A Few Years Before the Disaster, Part II
Translated and annotated by Greg King
In the first half of July 1909, we went to England. This was a return visit to King Edward VII,1 who visited the Sovereign the previous year in Reval. We left Peterhof on the yacht Alexandria for Kronstadt, where we transferred to Standart. On Saturday evenings a choral litany was held on the Standart’s…
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