[Illustration: THE PIECE OF GLASS FOUND IMBEDDED IN THE FLESH OF THE GRAND DUCHESS ANASTASIA SUBSEQUENT TO THE TRAGEDY] [Illustration: MAP OF EKATERINBURG AND VICINITY--_ca._ 1918] [Illustration: THE GRAND DUCHESSES MARIE AND ANASTASIA--SPALA--1912] [Illustration: THE GRAND DUCHESS ANASTASIA--WISCONSIN--WINTER 1934-35] [Illustration: _Courtesy The Chicago Tribune_ NICHOLAS II, THE GRAND DUCHESSES TATIANA, OLGA, MARIE AND ANASTASIA AND THE TSESAREVICH ALEXEI; IN THE FOREGROUND, THE PRINCE VASILI--_ca._ WINTER 1913-14] [Illustration: THE GRAND DUCHESS ANASTASIA--ILLINOIS--_ca._ 1960] [Illustration: THE GRAND DUCHESSES OLGA, TATIANA, ANASTASIA AND MARIE--TSARSKOE SELO--1917] [Illustration: _Photograph by Robert E. B. Speller, Jr._ THE GRAND DUCHESS ANASTASIA--RHODE ISLAND--1963] [Illustration: THE GRAND DUCHESS ANASTASIA--RUMANIA--_ca._ 1929] [Illustration: THE GRAND DUCHESS ANASTASIA--WISCONSIN--_ca._ 1934] [Illustration: THE GRAND DUCHESS ANASTASIA WITH MARJORIE HANSON, GRANDDAUGHTER OF MRS. WILLIAM H. EMERY--WISCONSIN--_ca._ 1944] [Illustration: _Photograph by Robert E. B. Speller, Jr._ THE GRAND DUCHESS ANASTASIA--ILLINOIS--1963] The Alexander house for the poor and other civic institutions were built in their entirety from funds of Alexander III. Some of our friends had some industries in these regions, namely Count Vorontsov-Dashkov, Countess Stenbock-Fermor, General Tatishchev, Prince Dolgorukov, Count Ignatiev, Prince Demidov, Baroness Meller-Zakomelsky, Count Muraviev-Amursky, Count Stroganov, and others. All these names were familiar to us. General Count Tatishchev, who was with us on the train, gave us many historical facts about Ekaterinburg. His ancestors had built this city in honor of the Empress Catherine the Great. Ekaterinburg is the junction of various railroads, connecting the Siberian main line via Perm with Tiumen and Cheliabinsk and other side lines. On Father’s wedding date November 14th, 1894, old style, a library and free reading room was given by him; and every year thereafter, whole sets of books were sent to Cheliabinsk on this day. He described to us the tea packaging business at Kiakhta in the Transbaikal, from where many of our grey horses came. On the way to Tiumen we saw feeding stations, medical shelters and railroad car churches and portable schools. They were built for the convenience of the settlers. Practically in every city was a school or a hospital built from the funds of my Grandfather. We kept climbing higher and in the morning we stopped near the town of Bazhenovo. Some peasants who saw us wanted to come close to us, but were sent back by the guards. They told the men that the distilleries, which had been closed during the war, were reopened and the people were becoming intoxicated on the spirits and wines produced there. They also said that the emerald mines already had been closed and that the workers were spending their time in the wine cellars getting drunk.