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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. There is one great love in everyone's life. For Ducky, Princess Victoria Melita, hers was a Romanov cousin, a member of the doomed Russian royal family. Her father is Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Victoria's second son. Her mother is Grand Duchess Marie, the daughter of Tsar Alexander II. Ducky seems doomed to be a pawn on her grandmother's dynastic chessboard.But Ducky is not so easily controlled. In an era when death is considered preferable to divorce she fights for the freedom to be with the true love of her life. From disgraced exile in Paris to the glitter of St Petersburg and the mud and carnage of the Eastern Front, she forges her own path.As Russia descends into the chaos of 1917 and the Romanov dynasty falters, Ducky is right at the heart of events.Exiled once more, she tells us her story. The haunting story of Princess Victoria Melita and her conflicted loyalties, set against a powerful cast: Queen Victoria, Rasputin and the doomed Romanovs Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. New tightly bound hardcover with like DJ. 8vo. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 335 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. One morning in July of 1998, all the Romanovs still living assembled in the lobby of the recently renovated Astoria Hotel in St. Petersburg. They were waiting to attend the solemn burial of Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra and their children, murdered eighty years earlier, who were finally to be interred together. Prince Michael of Greece was there because his grandmother, Grand Duchess Olga, was a Romanov. She left Russian at sixteen to marry George I of Greece. While at the ceremony, Prince Michael spied a dazzling older woman on the fringes of the crowd and, curious to know her connection, traveled to Moscow to meet her. Her name was Natalya Androssov Iskander Romanov and over tea Prince Michael listened to the long-buried story of her grandfather, the Grand Duke Nicholas. To Prince Michael's utter surprise, the royal family had erased his existence from their official vaults. Natayla's memories are the only key to his past, and as she begins to tell Prince Michael her grandfather's story, the narrative fades to a snow-filled St. Petersburg morning in November of 1860. There begins a fantastic re-imagining of the life of this rebellious and dashing Duke. Young Nicholas idolized his mother Alexandra whom he declared the most beautiful woman in the world. She adored him just the same, and was proud of her son's beauty, his progress in school and his intelligence. At that time, though, custom dictated a separation between child and parent and the grand duchess was too conventional to break with the norm. Nicholas spent his days in the hands of a tutor, most of whom were a bit rough, but he and his beloved sister Olga happened to be in the hands of the frightful Mirbach. A man who couldn't be pleased, Mirbach's whippings left life-long scars on Nicholas's hips and back. And other than this, no one much looked after them. The young grand duke underwent military training and proved to be an extraordinarily gifted officer cadet. In 1868, on his 18th birthday, he was authorized to look after Pavlosk Palace, his favorite of his parent's estates, and which he would one day inherit. As a young man Nicholas gained quite the reputation as a ladies man and excellent lover, and Nicholas's aide-de-camp, Captain Vorpovsky, continually brought young dancers and prostitutes to Nicholas. Each time, he would show them the stunning portrait of the blue-eyed blonde princess Frederika von Hannover of Germany who rejected his offer of marriage. At this time, Nicholas's mother learns her husband has a mistress, and flees to the Pavlosk estate. Nicholas follows to comfort her, but she screams that it was his debauchery that inspired his father. From this point on, his relationship with his mother was never the same. Born Hattie Blackford, Fanny Lear was a young and devasting American beauty who left the States with marriage to a royal on her mind. She had sparkling eyes, a sensual mouth, and voluptuous frame and wanted to use these traits to follow in the footsteps of her role models--the courtesans La Castiglione, Lola Montez and her friend and mentor, Cora Pearl. One evening after arriving in Russia she receives an invitation to a formal ball at the opera. She goes tired and with little expectations, but catches Nicholas's eye. They hit it off instantly. Nicholas was truly in love with her, but even so he remained unfaithful, which broke her heart. One night she angrily fled to the home of her friend, Mabel Grey, where she met the young, powerfully attractive Count Nicholas Savine. They reconciled and left intolerably hot St. Petersburg for Pavlosk Palace, with Fanny in a beautiful dacha close by. He fell ill that summer and Fanny cared for him with great tenderness. Nicholas decided to take Fanny on a long trip through Western Europe, and asked for a leave of several months to restore his fragile health (he was suffering from syphilis). One day while strolling alone in a town near Vienna, Fanny came upon a lovely, secluded copse only to find Nicholas there with a young woman. Again they fought and reconciled in a pattern that defined their tempestuous relationship. To prevent news of the affair getting out, Nicholas's uncle sends him off to a military campaign in Khiva. He proves a brilliant military man, even saving the life and honor of his young and cowardly cousin. When back, Fanny encounters young Count Savine having dinner alone and encourages Nicholas to invite him over. Nicholas speaks of his desire for progress and democracy (beliefs his father shared to a lesser degree) and Savine urges Nicholas to meet with his radical friends. The three begin meeting together more often, and they meet once with Savine's young revolutionary friend, Sophie.Nicholas turns to stealing small items from his family's estates as a dare to compete with Savine for Fanny's approval. One night when all three are very drunk they invade his parents palace, and in the morning one of his mother's most precious diamond-stuuuuuudded icons is missing and an investigation begins. Loyal Voporsky confesses that Fanny gave him the icon to sell, and Fanny then tells Nicholas that Savine made her do it to pay for the revolution. Nicholas and Fanny are both imprisoned for the theft. Upon Fanny's release, the St. Petersburg police order her to leave Russia at once. When she arrives in Paris, hordes of journalists greet her begging for details of the scandal. News of the affair obviously overflowed Russia's borders, much to the royal family's dismay. As for Nicholas, in December 1874, Alexander II decrees that the grand duke Nicholas was suffering from a grave illness that necessitated special treatment, and then Nicholas's true fate became a state secret as his name vanished from the official court communiques. Rumors circulated furiously about Nicholas's cooperation with revolu.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.1.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. New York -Garden City Pub.- 1932/, pp. 348. Reinterpreting the past as an exile in Paris. At least he was not driving a taxi.[No library stamps/markings; cover a bit tired.].

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Black cloth covers exhibit wear and bumping to corners and spine ends. Bumping on bottom edge of front cover. Heavy shelf wear and soiling to covers. Inscriptions from previous owners on inside front cover and top edge of ffep. Rough cut page ends show moderate soiling. Light yellowing to inside front and back covers and text due to age. The last half of text has heavy underlining and writing in margins mostly in pencil. Hinges are cracked but still firmly attached. B&W photo of the Duke in front of book. "A history of the last 50 years of the Russian Empire compiled to record the grand duke's progress." All of our books are individually inspected and described. Never ex-lib unless explicitly described as such.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Chapters: Princess Alice of Battenberg, Queen Sofía of Spain, Princess Françoise of Orléans, Helen of Greece and Denmark, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, Aspasia Manos, Princess Olga, Duchess of Apulia, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia, Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, Alexandra of Yugoslavia, Grand Duchess Alexandra Georgievna of Russia, Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark, Princess Irene, Duchess of Aosta, Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark, Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark, Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark, Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark, Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark, Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece, Princess Alexandra of Greece, Princess Tatiana of Greece and Denmark, Princess Maria-Olympia of Greece and Denmark. Excerpt: Princess Alice of Battenberg, later Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark (Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie; 25 February 1885 5 December 1969) was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and mother-in-law of Elizabeth II. She was congenitally deaf, and grew up in Germany, England and the Mediterranean. After marrying Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark in 1903, she lived in Greece until the exile of most of the Greek royal family in 1917. On returning to Greece a few years later, her husband was blamed in part for the defeat of Greece in the Greco-Turkish War (1919 1922), and the family were once again forced into exile until the restoration of the Greek monarchy in 1935. In 1930, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia and committed to a sanatorium; thereafter, she lived separately from her husband. After her recovery, she devoted most of her remaining years to charity work in Greece. She stayed in Athens during the Second World War, sheltering Jewish refugees, for which she is recognised as 'Righteous Among the Nations' at Yad Vashem. After the war, she stayed in Greece and founded an Orthodox nursing order of nuns known as the Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary. After the fall of King Constantine II of Greece and the imposition of military rule in Greece in 1967, she was invited by her son and daughter-in-law to live at Buckingham Palace in London, where she died two years later. Her Serene Highness Princess Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie of Battenberg was born in the Tapestry Room at Windsor Castle in Berkshire in the presence of her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria. She was the eldest child of Prince Louis of Battenberg and his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine. Her mother was the eldest daughter of Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse, the second daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Her father was the eldest son of Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine through his morganatic marriage to Countess Julia von Hauke. He 30 pp. Englisch.

Hardcover. Condition: Good - Cash. No Jacket. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear. Sun fading along the edges of the cover and to the spine. Pages show reader wear. Previous owner's name inside. There are several cracks in the spine throughout the book. Secure pages, solid binding. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library with typical library markings/labels. Faded spine cover. Hinges cracked front and rear, pages secure. Some markings found on pages. Pages age-toned. Heavy shelf wear - boards showing. Your purchase benefits the world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. 348pp; illustrated; facsimile reprint; few pages creased due to bad storage; grey boards with gilt title to spine; staining to spine, top and tail dented; corners worn Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Good. Hardcover book , First edition,348 pages. The Grand Duke's life and upbringing in the last fifty years of the Russian empire. A Good only copy. Binding tight and clean but with fading to covers and spine. Previous owner's name. Pictures available.

Condition: Good. Farrar & Rinehart New York 1932 blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front and spine. boards and spine are age toned. spine slightly shaken. scarce copy.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. This item is fairly worn, but continues to work perfectly. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn corners, bends, tears, small stains, and partial water damage. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing, if applicable. Pages may include excessive notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Satisfaction Guaranteed.

FIRST EDITION, REBOUND; octavo blue faux leather boards, 384pp, VG (light tanning and foxing within, prev. owner's details in pen to title - tidy rebind).

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. Original bound volume, one quarter black leather, green pebbled cloth boards. Show swear to edges, more so to extremities. Ex-library: removed label from spine, library plate to front paste down page, blind stamp to title page and ink notation to copyright page only. The first 265 pages show damp staining to front edges (blank margins), with some age discoloration and some loosening of the pages, but still bound in; the balance of the book is bright and clean. 776 pages, plus handy Index in the front of the volume. Good. SELECTED NOTABLE ARTICLES - Many Travel Related: "Following the Tiber" (two parts), many illustrations, some affected with moisture. No authorship. "Six Month Among Cannibals" no authorship, some illustrations. "Some Recollections of Hiram Powers" by T. Adolphus Trollope "Corn" a four-page poem by Sidney Lanier "Escape from Siberia" by? many illustrations, 18 pages "Australian Scenes and Adventures" two papers by? illustrated with many woodcuts. 26 pages total. "Among the Blousards" by Wirt Sikes (travel, Paris, Paris Commune, rag pickers, poor. "The Blousard in His Hours of Ease" by Wirt Sikes. "La Madonna Della Sedia" poem by Emma Lazarus. "Early Traveling Experiences in India" by Fitzedward Hall "Once and Again" by Charles Warren Stoddard. "Playing with Fire" by Harriet Prescott Spofford. "Recollection of the Tuscan Court Under the Grand Duke Leopold" by T. Adolphus Trollope. "The Golden Eagle and His Eyrie" by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. "The Raskol, and Sects in Russia" From the French of Anatole Leroy-Beauieu. "A March Violet" poem by Emma Lazarus. "What is a Conclave?" by T. Adolphus Trollope. "On the Study of Shakespeare Sonnets" by Kate Hillard "Up the Parana and in Paraguay" by? In two papers, well-illustrated, 42 pages total. "Overworked Women" by Alexander Delmar with statistics table. "How Lady Louisa Moor Amused Herself" short story by Elizabeth Taylor "Frederic Lemaitre" by Wirt Sikes "Northward to High Asia" by Frank Vincent, Jr. "Eight Hundred Miles in an Ambulance" two papers by Laura Winthrop Johnson "The Symphony" 7-page poem by Sidney Lanier. "Mill s Essays on Religion" by Lawrence Turnbull. [John Stuart Mill]Much more! Questions welcome. Images can be made upon request.

1.Aufl. 384 S., 1.Aufl., 8vo, OLn, OU, Rücken leicht verblichen, Schutzumschlag stark gebräunt und fleckig, Seiten altersbedingt gebräunt, Schnitt leicht angestaubt und fleckig, 1 Frontispiz-Porträt Sprache: Englisch 4000g gr.

Condition: Good. 1932. First Published. 384 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Minor thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking to gutters and hinges with netting slightly exposed but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with noticeable sunning and scuffing overall. Spine has minor tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.

Decorative Canvas Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 348 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. No dj. Damage to spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover - clean, no marks, clean inside, clean dj - from a private collection - good clean, dj split at front hinge , SIGNED by "Alexander, Grand Duke of Russia". Signed.

Condition: Good. Small folio. 22 x 32 cm. Contemporary vellum with 4 raised bands, repaired. 2 vols: 216, 142pp. Very good witha few wormholes in margins.Provenance: Duke Alexander Petrovich of Oldenburg (2 June 1844, St Petersburg, - 6September 1932, Biarritz, France), the senior son and heir of the Russian Oldenburgs. Alexander Petrovich was once a candidate to the Bulgarianthrone. He married in 1868 to Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Leuchtenberg. Their only son, Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, marriedthe sister of Tsar Nicholas II, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, and during World War I Duke Alexander Petrovich served as head of allRussian military hospitals and the Russian Red Cross.OCLC Number: 954856749Notes: Tit. della pt. 2: Commentaria Ioan. Marinelli in lib. Hippocratis.Marche (O1558) sui front. e in fine (O698).Segn.: [latin cross]?A-2N?; a?b-2a?.Front. della pt. 1 stampato in rosso e nero.Bianca l'ultima c. della pt. 1.Description: 2 part ([4], 215, [1]; [2], 140 c.) ; 2o.2 parties reliées en un volume in-folio, vélin , dos à nerfs avec le titre inscrit à l'encre en long (reliure de l'époque).Impression sur deux colonnes. Commentaires de Giovanni Marinelli.Mouillures en fin de volume, galerie de ver dans la marge inférieure. Coupes et coins usagés, manque en haut du dos. Cachet en cyrillique et cachet HO sous couronne fermée sur le titre et en fin de volume.Expertise by Christian GASCHExpertise Livres Anciens et Modernes58004 NEVERS Cédex.

12mo (83 x 129 mm). 84 ff. containing entries by more than 230 personages. With one engraved devotional lace picture, one small pen-and-ink drawing, and one dried flower. Contemporary half calf over wooden boards; both covers elaborately decorated with ornamental plating and inlays of bone, brass, and mother-of-pearl (front cover very slightly cracked and brass plating loosened at the top left corner). Pocket in inside of lower cover; sheath with original thin pencil. Narrow gilt rules to spine. A single central clasp. All edges gilt. Remarkable, wide-ranging friendship album of Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine (1843-65), only daughter of the Hessian general Karl of Hesse and Princess Elizabeth of Prussia. In May 1865 she married Grad Duke Frederick Francis II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin but died of puerperal fever a week after the birth of her only child. Both her parents as well as her later husband have signed her album. - The entries are mainly by members of the European aristocracy, including Archduke Albert of Austria-Teschen (1817-95), Czar Alexander II of Russia (1818-81), Princess Alice of Great Britain (1843-78), Duke Frederick of Anhalt (1831-1904), Countess Charlotte Fugger (1830-76), Gustav Prince of Vasa (1799-1877), Prince Henry XXII Reuss-Greiz (1846-1902), Helena Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Duchess of Orléans and Chartres (1814-58), Duke Joseph of Saxe-Altenburg (1789-1868), Joséphine de Beauharnais, Queen of Sweden and Norway (1807-76), Louis Philippe Albert d'Orléans, Comte de Paris (1838-94), King Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1912), King Maximilian II of Bavaria (1811-64), Princess Sophie of Orange-Nassau, Grandduchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1824-97), Countess Théodolinde of Württemberg, Princess of Leuchtenberg (1814-57), Princess Therese of Oldenburg, née Nassau Weilburg (1815-71), Prince Wilhelm of Schaumburg-Lippe (1834-1906), and many others. The later "Swan King" Ludwig II has signed his name twice: once as a six-year old, together with his mother Marie Friederike of Prussia (1825-89), and again as a twelve-year-old, alone. Other entries by children include Mary Victoria Hamilton (1850-1922), who would marry Prince Albert I of Monaco in 1869, and the later ethnologist, zoologist and botanist Therese of Bavaria (1850-1925). Other contributors from the field of science and scholarship include the explorer Adalbert von Barnim (1841-60), the geologist Wilhelm von Branca (1844-1928), and the theologian Carl Heinrich August von Burger (1805-84). - Pages numbered in pencil up to p. 160 by a later hand. Provenance note on the final page of text (p. 133) by Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg (1850-1922): "This book belonged to the Grand Duchess Anna of Mecklenburg née Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt; it was later given to Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg in Dezember 1919 [.]".