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The accomplished Queen of the Belgians and the Tsaritsa of Russia are also both German princesses, but they form exceptions to the rule that whichever of any two spouses is German exercises an overmastering influence on the other.
Here there is no obstacle of forest, sea, or rock. I am bridging the precipice, and my feet will not tremble when I cross the bridge. Give me Vera Vassilievna. No devil should disturb my happiness or her peace of mind, if she lived to be a hundred. She will be my Tsaritsa, and in the peace that reigns in my forest will forget all that now oppresses her. You don't yet understand me!"
The Tsar himself was a firm friend of the Entente, but the same could not be said of the Tsaritsa nor of the reactionary and disreputable influences to which she extended her patronage.
"Let me see thy ring," said the Tsar. He took her hand in his and examined the ring carefully, and it was in every respect exactly as the Green One had described it. "Is this thy ring?" the Tsar asked of the merchant. "Yes, your majesty, it is." "Then," said the Tsar to his daughter, "it is right that thou shouldst return it to him." The Tsaritsa wept and implored.
I was so fortunate in my life as to be deemed worthy to behold that smile close, and never will it be effaced from my heart! And thereupon he would relate anecdotes of the life of Catherine, such as I have never happened to read or hear elsewhere. Here is one of them. Alexey Sergeitch did not permit the slightest allusion to the weaknesses of the great Tsaritsa.
Her girls in a school paid for largely by the Dowager Tsaritsa! Oh, it was too much. Tears stood in the poor lady's eyes. Her school had been the meeting-place of the intelligentzia. Ministers, priests, and officials had sought her advice. Now persons wishing to curry favour with the Prince had maligned her. A lying, treacherous race, said one of the Russians.
Such was the prevailing sentiment at the time of Anna's death . The Tsaritsa named Ivan, a grand-nephew, the infant son of her niece Anna, her successor under the Regency of Biron, the man who had controlled the policy of the administration during her reign. This was only a brief and tragic episode.
After that they journeyed back to their own kingdom, and if any one was glad to see them it was the Tsar himself. He built for them a castle close to his own, where they could not even see the swamp. There Ivan and his frog princess lived in the greatest love and happiness, and after the old Tsar's death they themselves ruled over the kingdom as the Tsar and Tsaritsa. King.
When a Tsaritsa reigned in Russia I was no longer very small. So you can reckon it out. I must be seventy. 'Yes you must, but you are still a fine fellow. 'Well, thank Heaven I am healthy, quite healthy, except that a woman, a witch, has harmed me.... 'How? 'Oh, just harmed me. 'And so when you die the grass will grow? repeated Olenin.
She offered the merchant her pearls and every other gem she had if he would but let her keep the ring, but he refused. "Very well, then, it shall be neither thine nor mine," cried the Tsaritsa, and she drew the ring from her finger and dashed it against the wall. At once the ring changed into a hundred millet seeds and was scattered all over the floor.
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