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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Aleksandr I Spiridovič |
OCLC Number: | 165862306 |
Description: | 492 Seiten : Illustrationen. |
Series Title: | Collection de mémoires, études et documents pour servir à l'histoire de la Guerre mondiale |
Responsibility: | Alexandre Spiridovitch. |
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Les dernières années de la cour de Tzarskoié-Sélo
Book 1 Les dernières années de la cour de Tzarskoié-Sélo 1909
Translated from Spirodovitchs' Original Memoirs 'Les dernières années de la cour de Tzarskoié-Sélo'
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Book 1 Les dernières années de la cour de Tzarskoié-Sélo 1909
Translated from Spirodovitchs' Original Memoirs 'Les dernières années de la cour de Tzarskoié-Sélo'
On 5 August 1873, the wife of second captain of infantry, Ivan Matveyevich Spiridovitch, commander of a border guard squad, gave birth, in the small town of Kemi, located in the municipality of Arkhangelsk, on the distant, isolated coast of the White Sea, to a son named Alexander, who is the author of these memoirs. The Spiridovitch family, recorded in the sixth section of the geneaological book of nobility from the Smolensk government, is, according to authentic documents, traced back to Ivan Avstafier Spiridovitch, who, in 1668, under the reign of Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich, had been recognised as "the owner of land and farms and estates in the villages of Shumov, Rubtsov and others". There is nothing greater than God and the Tsar.
Such were the proper terms of a Senate ukase, which my father kept religiously, with many other family papers, in one of these large tin cases, in which the sailors from this northern coastal region usually kept their documents.
A practical and punctual man, my father announced my birth to the assembly of delegates of Smolensk nobility, and had a Certificate of Nobility issued in my name, which he added to the other family papers locked, securly, in the tin case.
I was raised at home, under the guidance of my father. He was a tall man, with a severe appearance, a heavy, bushy beard, who had learned life the hard way in the military at the time of Emperor Nicolas I. Belief in God, love for the Tsar and for Mother Russia, a belief and love which formed an inseparable part of his very soul, were the guiding principles of his life, the ideal which inspired all his actions.
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