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The story begins with the first winter of the Great War. We are introduced to the tragedies amongst the imperial army who fought during the war happening in the Russian-occupied Galicia. The first character we meet is Demidov who was dispatched by the Russian parliament, now in charge of the Red-Cross train to the Russian Empire. During a night on his journey, he met a woman. The woman appeared to be middle-aged and made claims to possess the abilities of a seer. The woman began to unfold the prophecies of the war in Galicia with expectations that the allies would become victorious and the terrifying fate of the royal family. The next day, Demidov arrived to Petrograd. Despite the less-threatening atmosphere compared to that of the Galicia, the collapse of the Russian empire will take place with the exact vision of horror told by the seer.

Now we meet the Romanov Dynasty, a family who has been in control of Russia for almost 300 years since the imperial throne acceded to Nicholas II in 1894.

When the final emperor claimed the throne, a young writer named Dimitri Merezhovskii spread awareness of a tragic fate of the royal family in one of the recordings: “In the House of the Romanovs…a mysterious curse descends from generation to generation. Murders and adultry, blood and mud… Peter I kills his son, Alexander I kills his father; Catherine II kills her husband. And besides these great and famous victims there are mean, unknown and unhappy abortions of the autocracy…suffocated like mice in dark corners, in cells of the Schlusselburg Fortress. The block, the rope and poison—these are true emblems of Russian autocracy. God’s unction on the brows of the Tsars has become the brand of Cain”

Mentioned in the chapter:
Nicholas II(1868-1918)the last emperor
Peter I(1682-1725)former emperor
Catherine II(1762-1796)former empress
Alexander II(1818-1881) former emperor
Alexander III(1845-1894)former emperor
Marie Feodorovna(1847-1928)former empress
Olga Alexandrovna(1883-1960)grand duchess
George Alexandrovich(1871-1899)grand duke
Xenia Alexandrovna(1875-1960) grand duchess