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[NABOKOV-L] Botkin and the Romanovs
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Dear List,
I'm sure this item must have been brought up in the Nab-L already, but recent postings about Fet and Botkin awakened my curiosity in relation to Dr. Eugene Botkin and any link connecting him to Kinbote's fantasies about Zembla and Charles, the Beloved.
I tried to search the Nab-archives with no success. Can anyone guide me to older postings in which a discussion about this particular Dr. Botkin took place?*
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* In the wikipedia, in the biography of the Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, we learn that a Dr. Eugene Botkin was shot to death together with the last Romanovs: "Yurovsky, who had been a professional photographer, directed the family to take different positions as a photographer might. Alexandra, who had requested chairs for herself and Alexei, sat to her son's left. The Tsar stood behind Alexei, Dr. Botkin stood to the Tsar's right, Tatiana and her sisters stood behind Alexandra along with the servants....Yurovsky ...ordered them to stand, and read the sentence of execution. Tatiana and her family had time only to utter a few incoherent sounds of shock or protest before the death squad under Yurovsky's command began shooting. It was the early hours of 17 July 1918.[71]The initial round of gunfire killed only the Tsar, the Empress and two male servants, and wounded Grand Duchess Maria, Dr Botkin and the Empress' maidservant, Demidova. At that point the gunmen had to leave the room because of smoke and toxic fumes from their guns and plaster dust their bullets had released from the walls. After allowing the haze to clear for several minutes, the gunmen returned. Dr Botkin was killed, and a gunman named Ermakov repeatedly tried to shoot Tsarevich Alexei, but failed because jewels sewn into the boy's clothes shielded him..."
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I'm sure this item must have been brought up in the Nab-L already, but recent postings about Fet and Botkin awakened my curiosity in relation to Dr. Eugene Botkin and any link connecting him to Kinbote's fantasies about Zembla and Charles, the Beloved.
I tried to search the Nab-archives with no success. Can anyone guide me to older postings in which a discussion about this particular Dr. Botkin took place?*
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* In the wikipedia, in the biography of the Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia, we learn that a Dr. Eugene Botkin was shot to death together with the last Romanovs: "Yurovsky, who had been a professional photographer, directed the family to take different positions as a photographer might. Alexandra, who had requested chairs for herself and Alexei, sat to her son's left. The Tsar stood behind Alexei, Dr. Botkin stood to the Tsar's right, Tatiana and her sisters stood behind Alexandra along with the servants....Yurovsky ...ordered them to stand, and read the sentence of execution. Tatiana and her family had time only to utter a few incoherent sounds of shock or protest before the death squad under Yurovsky's command began shooting. It was the early hours of 17 July 1918.[71]The initial round of gunfire killed only the Tsar, the Empress and two male servants, and wounded Grand Duchess Maria, Dr Botkin and the Empress' maidservant, Demidova. At that point the gunmen had to leave the room because of smoke and toxic fumes from their guns and plaster dust their bullets had released from the walls. After allowing the haze to clear for several minutes, the gunmen returned. Dr Botkin was killed, and a gunman named Ermakov repeatedly tried to shoot Tsarevich Alexei, but failed because jewels sewn into the boy's clothes shielded him..."
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