Enchantments: a Novel of Rasputin's Daughter And the Romanovs
“Alyosha said one afternoon. “Do you, Masha? Passing, by train, through a town where all the people turn out to see him—the tsar—so near their humble homes. Like an apparition. As if Christ himself had deigned to walk among them, his vassals.“Great-grandfather Alexander may have freed them fifty—more than fifty—years ago, but they don’t care, or they don’t know it. They regard themselves no differently than they did when they were serfs. There are no revolutionaries outside of Moscow and Petersb...urg. The people who suffer and starve blame Father’s ministers, who they assume must be incompetent or venal. Who somehow pervert Father’s will. Not one of them believes the tsar makes mistakes.”“Don’t you think he wants—”“As long as he can glide through those towns like a god in his chariot, the train moving very slowly, so as to give the populace a good look at him, as long as he can greet every single citizen—for of course no one is too busy, or too sick, no one turns away uninterested—then he’s satisfied.MoreLess
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