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Nicholas II succeeded to
the throne in 1894.
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The coronation festivities were
marred by the Khodynka,
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a bloody trampling on people
in Khodynka meadow in Moscow.
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In the course of its 300-year
history, the Romanov dynasty
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had survived many upheavals:
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the peasant insurrections led
by Razin and Pugachev,
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the Decembrist uprising,
the Narodnaya Volya movement,
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and the revolution of 1905.
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However, never before had
the future
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looked so ominous
for the royal family.
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Nothing short of a miracle
could save the situation.
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I. F. Manassevitch-Manouilov
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"Manouilo", "Vanka Cain",
journalist
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I.L. Goremykin,
Prime Minister
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A.A. Vyrubova,
friend of the Imperial family
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You think there's no way
the project can go through?
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It was hopeless to start with.
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A million rubles, all for a whim!
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It would mean to bring the railroad
to the spring.
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If Mr. Voyeikov wants to provision
his troops with mineral water,
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he'd better transport it
at his own expense.
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What kind of attitude is that?
Do we measure patriotism in rubles?
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I don't know, Ivan Fyodorovich.
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But it's a miracle! A spring
suddenly appeared out of nowhere!
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Russian mineral water "Kouvaka"!
It cures anything!
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- Oh, come on!
- That's really so!
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Yesterday Chaliapin was singing
Mephistopheles, and...
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It'd make the soldiers a lot happier
to think their country had done it.