Title

'L'Annee 1917; Les <<forces tenebreuses >> qui dirigeaient la Russie a la veille de la.... 1916. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

'L'Annee 1917; Les <> qui dirigeaient la Russie a la veille de la revolution: Raspoutine et sa cour de femmes. L'intrique germanique dominait dans cette camarilla, tout-puissante aupres de la tsarine Alexandra Feodorovna, a qui Raspoutine avait eté presenté, a l'origine de son incroyable fortune, par Mme Vyrobouva, la seule du groupe qui soit designee ici', 1916. The 'shadowy forces' which controlled Russia on the eve of the revolution: Rasputin and his court of women. He had been introduced to the tsarina, Alexandra Feodorovna, by her lady-in-waiting Madame (Anna) Vyrubova (who appears in this photograph). From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924].

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM23A79_421

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Keywords

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