Monday, February 24, 2020

Chicago newspaper highlight on Alexandra's new life in captivity, year 1917

Source:

The Day Book, Noon Edition, published in Chicago, Illinois on March 19, 1917

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1917-03-19/ed-1/seq-11/


The highlight:

REVOLUTIONISTS GUARD OVER CZARINA

Czarina Alexandra, wife of deposed Czar Nicholas, is held captive by the revolutionists who have taken over control of the Russian government, and is held with the czar under guard. She is daughter of Grand Duke Ludwig IV. of Hesse and was married to the czar in 1894.

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