2. Natasha’s father was still registered as living in the Vozdvizhenka apartment eighteen years later in 1924
3. 13. MA to NS, November 3, 1909, GARF 622/12
4. MA to NS, July 28, 1909, GARF 622/09
5. Letter to Natasha’s granddaughter Pauline Gray, December 17, 1973, LRA MS 1363/136
6. Trubetskoi, 4, p 110
7. NS to MA, August 8, 1911, GARF 668/76
8. Radziwill, Secrets, p 92
9. Trubetskoi 4, p 110
10. Ibid
11. Majolier, p 35
12. Trubetskoi, 4, p 117
13. Okhrana report, September 6,1911, cited Maylunas/Mironenko, p 345
14. Ibid, December 17, 1912, pp 364-5
15. MA to N, October 6, 1912, GARF 601/1301
16. MA to N, October 14, 1912, GARF ibid
17. St Savva marriage register, No 35, 1912, Vienna SLA
18. Paléologue, February 10, 1916, Vol II, p 172
19. Marriage register, Vienna SLA
20. Ibid
21. Ibid
22. Okhrana Paris report December 17, 1912, cited Maylunas/Mironenko pp 364-5
23. N to DE, November 21, 1912 cited Maylunas/Mironenko, p 363
24. N to DE November 7 1912, Letters, p 283-4
25. Ibid
26. The ten-point memorandum is undated andunsigned, but was clearly written in early November 1912; Fredericks was the court minister responsible for matters relating to the Grand Dukes. GARF 601/1301 f.175-6
27. MA to N, November 16, 1912, GARF 601/1301. MA’s ‘terms’ were attached to this letter.
28. N to DE, November 21, 1912, Letters, p 285
29. George V to N, December 16, 1912, cited Maylunas/Mironenko p 363
30. British ambassador to Sir Edward Grey, January 16, 1913, PRO/FO 371/1743
31. Ibid
32. Ibid January 4, 1913
33. Ibid January 16, 1913
34. Mossolov, p 65
35. Radziwill, Secrets, p 94
36. MA to N, November 1, 1912, GARF 601/1301
37. Majolier, p 81
38. MA to N, April 23, 1914, f. ibid
39. Polovtsov, p 115
40. Natasha’s documents, LRA 1363/72
41. Majolier, p 46
3. A Brief Peace
1. Vorres, p 64
2. Queen Victoria’s Journal, October 8, 1899, RA
3. Majolier, p 82
4. Xenia’s diary July 12, 1913, cited Maylunas/Mironenko p 379
5. Ibid
6. Ibid
7. DE to N, July 27, 1913, Letters, pp 287-8
8. Knebworth House archive
9. Majolier, p 43
10. MA to N, March 8, 1914, f. ibid
11. MA accounts, 1914-1916, Paddockhurst Estate Office
12. Chavchavadze, p 178
13. George V to N, 6, 1912, GARF 601
14. The Times, London, December 30, 1913, January 10, 1914, May 13,1 1914.
15. Natasha continued to use her coronet notepaper when she returned to Russia, notwithstanding that she had no title.GARF 668/77-8
16. The Times, London, January 10, 1914
17. Ibid, December 2, 1913
18. On May 9, 1914, LRA 1363/39
19. May 19, 1914, ibid
20. Ibid, 1363/386
21. Majolier, p 47
22. Gray, p 38
23 The Times, London, July17, 1914
24 Majolier, p 49
25. Ibid, p 42
26. George V’s diary, RA, although for security reasons the departure was not recorded in the Court Circular until August 20, 1914
27. Yousoupoff, Lost Splendour, p 180
28. Poutiatine
29. Majolier, p 53
4. War Hero
1. The Times, London, January 17, 1913
2. Lincoln, p 76
3. Ibid, p 83
4. Kournakoff, p 55
5. Polovtsov, p 115
6. Ibid, p 127
7. Kournakoff, p 80
8. Polovtssov, pp 116-7
9. Kournakoff, p 55
10. Polovtsov, pp 126-7
11. Paléologue, Vol 1 p 302
12. N to AF, Letters, October 27, 1914, p 10
13. Polovtsov, p 138
14. Paléologue, February 10, 1916. Vol II p 172
15. MA to N, November 15, 1914, GARF 601/1301
16. Polovtsov, p 134
17. Ibid, p 132
18. Poutiatine
19. MA’s Diary, January 2, 1915
20. MA to NS, January 16, 1915, GARF 622/20
21. Ibid January 15, 1915
22. Ibid, January 20, 1915
23. Ibid, January 22, 1915
24. N to AF, November 19, 1914, p 14
25. MA to NS, January 22, 1915, GARF 622/20
26. Ibid, February 16, 1915
27. Ibid, February 4, 1915
28. Ibid, January 22, 1915
29. MA’s Diary, January 21-2, 1915
30. Ibid, February 9, 1915
31. MA to NS, February 16, 1915, GARF 668/78
32. Polovtsov, p 135
33. Ibid, p 138
34. Fund of the Imperial Russian Cavalry, Hoover Institution archives
35. Krylov, ‘Istoricheskie miniatyury’, Moskva, Moscow, 3, 1990
36. Radziwill, Secrets, p 96
37. Alexander, p 303
38. Polovtsov, p 138
39. Gushchik, pp 12-13
40. Ibid, pp 28-9
41. MA’s diary, April 17, 1915
42. N to AF, March 3, 1915, p.32
43. AF to N, Letters, p 54
44. MA to N, March 14, 1915, f. ibid
45. Imperial ukase of March 26, 1915, cited Jaques Ferrand, Il est toujours des Romanov! Paris, 1995, p 25
46. MA’s Diary, April 10, 1915
5. Alexandra the Great
1. MA’s Diary, April 19, 1915
2. NS to MA, June 10, 1915, GARF 668/78
3. MA to NS, June 14, 1915, GARF 622/20
4. Ibid, June 20, 1915
5. NS to MA, June 10, 1915, NS f. ibid
6. MA to NS, April 7, 1915, MA f. ibid
7. Washburn, pp 261-2
8. MA to NS, June 10,1915, f. ibid
9. NS to MA, June 20,1915, f. ibid
10. MA to NS, June 5, 1915, f. ibid
11. MA’s Diary, July 30, 1915
12. Ibid, August 7, 15, 1915
13. MA to NS, June 20, 1915, f. ibid
14. Grand Duke Andrew’s diary, cited Golder (ed) p 239
15. Knox, p 332
16. Paléologue, August 17, 1915, Vol II, p 60
17. Brusilov, p.180
18. AF to N, August 22, 1915, p 14
19. N to AF, August 25, 1915, pp 71-2
20. AF to N, August 28, 1915, p 125
21. Vyrubova, p 100
22. Grand Duke Konstantin’s diary, August 25, 1902, cited Maylunas/Mironenko, p 219