Tsaritsa

In a special alcove are the remains of the last Romanovs -- Tsar Nicholas II, Tsaritsa Alexandra, and their five children, all rehabilitated in 1998 from their massacre by the Bolsheviks in 1918.

Peter Worthington: The New Russia Is Much Like the Old Russia Peter Worthington 2011

The Tsar and Tsaritsa opened the ball with a polonaise.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

The Tsar and Tsaritsa opened the ball with a polonaise.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

The Tsar and Tsaritsa proceeded to the Nicholas Hall, blazing with the light of a dozen chandeliers and ten thousand candles.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

The doors were thrown open, and the Tsar of Russia emerged fromthe seclusion of his private apartments, together with his Tsaritsa.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

In her aloofness and yearning for spiritual solace, Mary resembled the last Tsaritsa, Alexandra, who would one day wed hergrandson, Nicholas, the last of the tsars.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

By nature tall and lean, the Tsaritsa became excessively gaunt.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

The Tsar and Tsaritsa proceeded to the Nicholas Hall, blazing with the light of a dozen chandeliers and ten thousand candles.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

By his side was his consort, the new Tsaritsa, Dagmar of Denmark,* a diminutive brunette.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

But the new Tsaritsa did not, just then, insist on her imperial dignity.

FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007