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Where was Grunstein? Banished, cast off, like Lestocq

Where was Alexis Razumovsky?

Ah, well for her! He stood at her bedside, he pressed her cold hand in

his; he yet, in the face of death, thanked her for all the benefits she

had heaped upon him But alas! she was also surrounded by others--by

wild, pale, terrible for

empress! She there saw the tortured face of Anna Leopoldohorinned at her the idiotic face of Ivan,

whoseeyes and

bloody for up from her bed, the

e hands in prayer

to God for grace and hter, for Natalie, that He would

turn away the horrible curse that Eleonore had hurled at her child

Alexis Razu Overcome, as it seemed,

by his sorrow, another left the death-cha ready in the court below! This other was Count

Rasczinsky, the confidant of the e, the cannon roared; there were both joy

and sorrohat the bells and cannon announced!

The Empress Elizabeth was dead; the Emperor Peter III ascended the

throne of the czars as absolute ruler of the Russian realm The first to

bow before him was his wife With her son of five years old in her ar the floor with her

forehead, she had irace and love for herself and her son; and