Revision Gallery - The Lost Crown

 

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Deleted Scenes

Chapter 5 Tsarskoe Selo, 1/14 August 1917TLC_ch5_deleted.html
Chapter 12 Tsarskoe Selo, 1/14 August 1917TLC_ch12_deleted.html
Chapter 16 Tsarskoe Selo, 1/14 August 1917TLC_ch16_deleted.html
Chapter 19 Tsarskoe Selo, Spring 1917TLC_ch19_deleted.html
Chapter 27 Tobolsk, January 1918TLC_ch27_deleted.html
Chapter 34 Ekaterinburg, Spring 1918TLC_ch34_deleted.html
Chapter 37 Ekaterinburg, May 1918TLC_ch37_deleted.html
Chapter 6 Tsarskoe Selo, 1/14 August 1917TLC_ch6_deleted.html
Chapter 15 Tsarskoe Selo, 1/14 August 1917TLC_ch15_deleted.html
Chapter 31 Tobolsk, Easter 1918TLC_ch31_deleted.html

  1. BulletWhy so many scenes from 1/14 August 1917, you might ask?

Originally, the events of 1914-1916 were told by the grand duchesses as they sit up through the wee hours of August 1/14, waiting for the train that will take them into exile. I eventually conceded that keeping track of four voices AND a non-linear plotline with switching tenses was a lot to ask of my readers, so I scrapped the memory lane format and converted everything to a chronological present tense narrative. Most of these deleted scenes are the frames that introduced the girls’ reminiscences.