Robert Alexander QUOTES

1 " Oh, as the tragedies of Shakespeare have revealed, the fall of kings is but fodder for the riches entertainments. "

― Robert Alexander , The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar

3 " You see, my love. As you've always said, after the rain-"
Sun."
After the darkness-"
Light."
And after the illness-"
Health."
Exactly," said the Tsar. "We mustn't give up faith. "

― Robert Alexander , The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar

5 " Although we suffer horribly still there is peace in our souls "

― Robert Alexander , The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar

7 " People must have bread! People will grow angry without bread! "

― Robert Alexander , Rasputin's Daughter

9 " It amazes me still to this day how quickly the empire fell to pieces. One day
the people are kissing the ground upon which the Tsar’s shadow has fallen, the
next they are hacking apart his body. Nikolai merely put down his scepter and
walked away, and literally overnight a three-hundred-year old dynasty
evaporated — poof, gone! — with no one lifting a finger to save it. Ironic
that the Soviet Union collapsed just as easily, which proves it was no better,
that the cure, kommunizm, was in fact far worse than the disease itself. Now,
I can only hope, those days are over, and just maybe that’s true. After all,
it took nearly one hundred years for the insanity to fade from France after
their revolution. "

― Robert Alexander , The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar

11 " while our Empress was cold on the outside, she was at the same time wildly passionate on the inside, and in this way very, very Russian. "

― Robert Alexander , The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar