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Word: tchaikovsky (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dowager Tsarina Dagmar's agents are rumored to have traced the child. The Grand Duchess Anastasia's nurse Sascha, said recently after minutely examining the body of "Frau von Tchaikovski:" "This is the body of Anastasia. I know her body as well as I do my own. Anastasia had a brown mole on her back - her birthmark. That mark is there. Anastasia had flat feet. This girl's feet are flat. They are the same shape as Anastasia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Tsarol Babe | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

Anastasia. At Berlin the Danish Minister, Herlui Zahle, confirmed rumors that King Christian X of Denmark has been assisting his aunt, the aged Dowager Empress Dagmar, widow of Tsar Alexander III, to pursue a careful inquiry as to whether a certain "Frau von Tchaikovski" now in a Berlin sanitarium is really the Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. "Frau von Tchaikovski" is suffering from complete nervous and mental breakdown, and bears the scars of bullet wounds on her scalp and abdomen. Two former servants of the Grand Duchess Anastasia have positively identified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Rumor | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

...Frau von Tchaikovski" as their former mistress on the basis of certain birthmarks. Dr. Rudness, sometime physician to Nicholas II, now a refugee at Berlin, admitted to correspondents that he had examined the mysterious "Frau," but refused to affirm or deny that she is the Grand Duchess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Rumor | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

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