BOOK I. 1855-1894

CHAPTER

1. NICHOLAS I. DIES 3

2. ALEXANDER II. ON THE THRONE 16

3. ANECDOTES OF THE IMPERIAL FAMILY 25

4. INFLUENCE OF THE GRAND DUCHESS HÉLÈNE PAVLOVNA 38

5. THE REFORMS OF ALEXANDER II. AND HIS MINISTERS 48

6. THE ADLERBERGS AND THE SCHOUVALOFFS 60

7. ST. PETERSBURG BEFORE THE WAR OF 1877-8 71

8. THE EASTERN WAR AND AFTERWARDS 79

9. THE BERLIN CONGRESS AND ITS CONSEQUENCES 89

10. ALEXANDER’S LOVE AFFAIRS 99

11. ASSASSINATION OF ALEXANDER II. 108

12. ALEXANDER III. AND HIS CONSORT 116

13. THE IMPERIAL FAMILY IN 1881 122

14. THE FRIENDS AND MINISTERS OF ALEXANDER III. 130

15. ALEXANDER III. IS CROWNED 143

16. ST. PETERSBURG SOCIETY, FROM 1883 TO 1894 152

17. THE FOREIGN POLICY OF ALEXANDER III. 163

18. ALEXANDER’S MINISTERS 171

19. THE POLICE UNDER ALEXANDER III. 179

20. THE TRUTH ABOUT BORKY 185

21. LAST DAYS AT LIVADIA 192