Extended Reading

Nicholas and Alexandra quotes

  • [as the recently abdicated Tsar arrives at his palace]

    Russian Guard: Who's there?

    Tsar Nicholas II: Citizen Nicholas Romanov.

  • Yurovsky: [the execution of the Tsar and his family has been ordered in 1918] I've kept their mail. I didn't know whether they ought to have it. Shall I give it to them now? Would it be cruel or kind? I don't know how to judge these things. I don't think anyone knows.