Romanovy: Ventsenosnaya semya

Emperor Nicholas II:
Daughters, why are you so sad? Mashka, why are you hanging your head?

Grand Duchess Mariya Nikolayevna:
And you are asking...? I feel sorry for my brother. He was going to go with you and he got sick. He is so unfortunate and lonely.

Emperor Nicholas II:
Why lonely? He has all of you, he has me, he has Mama.

Grand Duchess Mariya Nikolayevna:
What us? You are leaving and Mama is up to her neck with stuff.

Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna:
Up to my neck with stuff...? This is something new? Would you please explain to me what does it mean?

Grand Duchess Tatyana Nikolayevna:
Up to your neck with stuff means very busy.

Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna:
This is true.

Emperor Nicholas II:
Cheer up. I am not saying "good bye" yet. I'll be back.

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolayevna:
[looking out the window] Who is it?

Grand Duchess Mariya Nikolayevna:
I dont know.

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna:
Where did he learn to play? I saw him on the train.

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich:
Ha, this is a soldier... Denisov. I know him. He was a sea cadet in the fleet. Now he is a rifleman.

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna:
How do you know all of this?

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich:
He told me himself.

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna:
Where did he tell you this?

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich:
We went fishing together.

Grand Duchess Tatyana Nikolayevna:
He is a virtuoso. Where did he learn to play?

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolayevna:
A person of natural gifts.

Kerensky:
I am Alexander Kerensky. How do you do?

Emperor Nicholas II:
How do you do Alexander Fyodorovich? This is my Family. My son Alexei...

Kerensky:
How do you do?

Emperor Nicholas II:
My two older daughters, Olga and Tatiana. The rest of them are ill and are in bed. You can see them if you wish.

Kerensky:
No, no I dont want to trouble them.

Emperor Nicholas II:
My wife Alexandra Fyodorovna.

Kerensky:
Nicholas Alexandrovitch, I would like to speak with you alone.

Emperor Nicholas II:
Let's go to the study. [they leave the room]

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna:
What an unpleasant man this Kerensky is.

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich:
That is because he does not respect Papa and Mama too.

Grand Duchess Tatyana Nikolayevna:
Sure... because our Papa and Mama are nobody now.

Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna:
Pardon me?

Grand Duchess Tatyana Nikolayevna:
Private citizens.

Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna:
You are so insensitive daughter... cruel.

Grand Duchess Tatyana Nikolayevna:
Why? I love you and Papa very much.

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna:
Why would you say such a thing then?

Grand Duchess Tatyana Nikolayevna:
Because! [shows her hair is falling]

Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna:
What is it?

Grand Duchess Tatyana Nikolayevna:
I am getting bald!

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna:
Don't pay attention to her Mama. She is not herself.

Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna:
Her hair is falling out! And you?

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna:
And I too... so what?

Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna:
My God, how is it? Olenka, you are young women. Why didnt you tell me?

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna:
Please understand us Mama. Who wants to be shaved.

Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna:
You think it is better to be bald?

Emperor Nicholas II:
[to Alexandra, on the night they are shot] I've realized suddenly, that the main purpose of my life is to love you, and raise the children. You will probably not believe me my dear, but I am happy.

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolayevna:
[enters and leaves the room in a hurry] Oh! Papa, I am sorry... Good Morning, Eugenie Stepanovitch.

Grand Duchess Mariya Nikolayevna:
[opens the door agitated] Papa, did Anastasia run through?

Emperor Nicholas II:
Yes she did... And very fast. What happened?

Grand Duchess Mariya Nikolayevna:
Papa, she's become intolerable. She ran away with my Maupassant.

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolayevna:
[Anastasia appears behind her and returns the book] Here it is, greedy, read it!

Yurovsky:
[the night of the execution] Our enemies abroad spread the gossip that you and your family are liquidated. This is not true. You are alive and in good health. We will now take a picture to be able to refute the gossip. Nicholas Alexandrovitch, please move toward me a little bit. Olga, Tatiana, move a little bit closer to your mother. Maria, a little bit to the right. Doctor a little to the left. Now we can see everyone. According to the order of the Ural Soviet, you Nicholas Alexandrovitch, and your family are sentenced to death and will be shot now.

Emperor Nicholas II:
What, what did you say? Repeat... God, forgive them, they don't know what they are doing...

[on going to Stavka]

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich:
I will not come anyway.

Emperor Nicholas II:
Why?

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich:
Because I am sick and I will be for a long time. I'm always sick. You know it. And mama knows it. I'm an invalid. A hemophiliac.

Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna:
Who said you were an invalid?

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich:
Nobody. I know it.

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich:
Papa, please stay. We'll all be together.

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich:
Will papa still be Emperor?

[shakes head no]

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich:
Why?

Pierre Gilliard:
Your father abdicated in favor of his brother, the Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich.

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich:
So... papas not the Emperor but Uncle Misha?

Pierre Gilliard:
Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich also abdicated.

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich:
But, who will rule Russia if we don't have an Emperor?

Pierre Gilliard:
The Provisional Government created by the Duma will rule Russia until there is a Constituent Assembly. Maybe after that your uncle Misha will reign.

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna:
Alyosha! Don't go to far.

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolayevna:
There are leeches in there!

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich:
There are no leeches in here! Its wonderful water.

Emperor Nicholas II:
Tell me Alyosha, what do you think? Was I a good Tsar?

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich:
Papa, I love you very much.

[about Lenin]

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich:
Is he a good man?

Emperor Nicholas II:
I don't know, Alyosha. I've never met him.

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich:
Would you like to meet him?

Emperor Nicholas II:
No.

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolayevna:
Aleksei Nikolayevich, would you please invite the lady for a dance?

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich:
I'm drawing.

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolayevna:
What if the lady asks? What if she insisted?

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich:
Very well.

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolayevna:
Thank you.