L. Muhlbach

The Daughter of an Empress


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       L. Mühlbach

      The Daughter of an Empress

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664599087

       COUNTESS NATALIE DOLGORUCKI

       COUNT MUNNICH

       COUNT OSTERMANN

       THE NIGHT OF THE CONSPIRACY

       HOPES DECEIVED

       THE REGENT ANNA LEOPOLDOWNA

       THE FAVORITE

       NO LOVE

       PRINCESS ELIZABETH

       A CONSPIRACY

       THE WARNING

       THE COURT BALL

       THE PENCIL-SKETCH

       THE REVOLUTION

       THE SLEEP OF INNOCENCE

       THE RECOMPENSING

       PUNISHMENT

       THE PALACE OF THE EMPRESS

       ELEONORE LAPUSCHKIN

       A WEDDING

       SCENES AND PORTRAITS

       PRINCES ALSO MUST DIE

       THE CHARMED GARDEN

       THE LETTERS

       DIPLOMATIC QUARRELS

       THE FISH FEUD

       POPE GANGANELLI (CLEMENT XIV)

       THE POPE’S RECREATION HOUR

       A DEATH-SENTENCE

       THE FESTIVAL OF CARDINAL BERNIS

       THE IMPROVISATRICE

       THE DEPARTURE

       AN HONEST BETRAYER

       ALEXIS ORLOFF

       CORILLA

       THE HOLY CHAFFERERS

       SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI

       THE VAPO

       THE INVASION

       INTRIGUES

       THE DOOMING LETTER

       THE RUSSIAN OFFICER

       ANTICIPATION

       HE!

       THE WARNING

       THE RUSSIAN FLEET

       CONCLUSION

       Table of Contents

      “No, Natalie, weep no more! Quick, dry your tears. Let not my executioner see that we can feel pain or weep for sorrow!”

      Drying her tears, she attempted a smile, but it was an unnatural, painful smile.

      “Ivan,” said she, “we will forget, forget all, excepting that we love each other, and thus only can I become cheerful. And tell me, Ivan, have I not always been in good spirits? Have not these long eight years in Siberia passed away like a pleasant summer day? Have not our hearts remained warm, and has not our love continued undisturbed by the inclement Siberian cold? You may, therefore, well see that I have the courage to bear all that can be borne. But you, my beloved, you my husband, to see you die, without being able to save you, without being permitted to die with you, is a cruel and unnatural sacrifice! Ivan,