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Tatiana: No

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Olga: My bed goes by the window

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Marie: That’s where I placed mine

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Olga: Birth order Marie. I come first

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Marie: I don’t know where Petrov and Monsieur Gilliard are going to stay

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Olga: They weren’t allowed to come

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Marie: They weren’t allowed to come?

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Olga: No, just Nagorny. They gave me lessons for Anastasia and Alexey

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Tatiana: Probably wanted to get her away from that Bolshie Jew Guard she was mooning over

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Olga: Don’t start Tatiana

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Anastasia: I don’t remember the door banging

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Olga: You were asleep

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Marie: Why?

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Olga: The guards drank vodka all night

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Tatiana: They sang those horrid Bolshevik songs. Stamping their feet, screaming until they were hoarse

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Olga: And when they got bored, they went on deck and began to shoot seagulls out of the sky

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Tatiana: I can still hear the screeching of those birds

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Olga: Then all of a sudden the birds disappeared. The massacre lost its target

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Marie: Thank god

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Olga: Until they found a new one

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Marie: What? Who

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Olga: Us

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You don’t mean. Where was Nagorny?

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Olga: He was locked in Alexey’s cabin. Locked in from the outside

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Tatiana: We were ordered to keep our cabin door open

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Olga: The guards all wanted a go at Tatiana. Anastasia, as one said, would be like screwing a child

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Anastasia: That’s awful

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They decided that I should be beaten first, then raped because I was the most arrogant. But, I was ready. If they came near us. I was prepared.

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Marie: Olga, where did you get that?

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Olga: Catherine the Great. I found it in a drawer at Peterhof.
Then the guards came bounding down the hall smelling of liquor and sweat

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Marie: Oh god!

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Olga: And then all of a sudden our door was shut tight and locked

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Marie: A miracle

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Olga: Hardly, your guard Marie, Komrad Vasily, I heard his voice shouting “Away, I have orders away”

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Anastasia: She’s not a Grand Duchess anymore. She’s Komrad Marie Romanov. Doesn’t it sound so Bolshie? I wish it would stop raining

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Olga: Everything’s so wet. Everything’s soaked with mud. Poor Nagorny tried to help us with out things, but those guards said he was only to help Alexey

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Tatiana: Do any other of the windows open or just the one?
Marie: Just the one

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Olga: Are they stuck?

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Marie: No

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Olga: Can’t you unlock them?

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Marie: They nailed the windows shut after they painted them

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Olga: It’s the middle of June

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Tatiana: Enough. Help me. Hand me your corset Masha. We need to get the candy into the summer corsets.

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Olga: Where did I put the package Vasily Ivanovich sent you Masha?

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Marie: What did he send me?

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Olga: Found it. Here
Well, what is it?

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Anastasia: A book. How boring. I wish he sent some magazines or newspapers or chocolates. Has anyone seen my camera?

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Olga: I packed it for you. You almost left it behind. Here don’t let the guards see you with the camera.

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Marie: These guards aren't like the ones in Tobolsk. Vasily Ivanovich wrote me the most wonderful message.
Olga: Read it Masha Tatiana: Why are you encouraging her? Olga: Read it
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Marie: ... Isn't he romantic? What does communally mean?
Olga: I don't even think it's a word
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Tatiana: Figures that Jew would send you some Bolshevik propaganda
Olga: It's by Chekhov. I love his plays. Monsieur Gilliard took me to see The Cherry Orchard at Alexandrinsky Theatre.
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Anastasia: Is Chekhov the same man who wrote The Bear? I hope it's as funny
Olga: The Cherry Orchard is funny and sad. We could put it on for everyone.
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Anastasia: We already did La Petit Gentilhomme
Olga: I don't think I can bear listening to Anastasia stumble through another farce with that wretched French accent.
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Tatiana: I am sure Mama will not like this play
Olga: Must everything we do please Mama? Look, it says on the frontispiece, "a comedy in four acts". I will be fun.
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Tatiana: God does not make mistakes
Olga: One of these days, you'll realize why you should be glad you're a girl Anastasia
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Anastasia: Can I at least play a boy?
Olga: The major parts in this play are for women. Anastasia you can play Anya, the 17 year old daughter. But, who should play her mother, Liubov Ranyevskya?
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Tatiana: Have I not made myself clear? I am not taking part in this, this Bolshevik manifesto
Olga: This play was written ten years ago, well before the revolution. Chekhov wrote this play while he was dying from tuberculosis, one line a day.
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Marie: How tragic
Olga: He wrote it for his wife to star in
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Marie: How romantic
Olga: Who wants to play the mother?
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Tatiana: Not I
Olga: That's fine with us. You can sit with mama and read her scripture while we rehearse. Arrange mama's pillows, fetch her the headache tablets, listen to her litany of ailments and provide her company day in, day out
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Tatiana: Better than playing some embittered dried up old prune
Olga: Quite the contrary. This women has a consumptive lover and a young man she travels with named Yasha
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Tatiana: I won't play a morally questionable character.
Olga: Nor should you
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Marie: What's the mother like? Is she very pretty?
Olga: She's apparently very beautiful and has had a great tragedy in her life
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Marie: I can play tragedy well
Olga: Her young son dies in an accident ... Olga: He drowned
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Marie: That's awful
Olga: The mother mourns her son so very much she leaves her beloved orchard and begin a life wandering across Europe losing herself in love and desperation. She's terribly sad.
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Tatiana: ... I will play the woman who has sorrow as her only companion
Olga: Tatiana, you're the only one I know who can make dour an acting style. Marie how about you play Dunyasha the maid? She falls in love with Yasha
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Tatiana: I thought Yasha was in love with me
Olga: You have other things to worry about. your beloved Cherry Orchard is just about to be auctioned off and you have to try and find money somewhere to save it
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Marie: Is dunyasha pretty?
Olga: Very pretty
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Anastasia: What's your part Olga?
Olga: Varya, the adopted older daughter with the eternal fiance. But we'll have to divvy up the male parts.
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Anastasia: We could rewrite the play so it's just the scenes we're in
Olga: You can't rewrite Chekhov
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Marie: I think it was much better that Ophelia didn't drown
Olga: Let's copy out the parts
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Tatiana: ... Who is sitting with Mama then?
Olga: What's she reading Marie?
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Anastasia: ... I can't sit with Mama I have lessons to do
Olga: I thought you weren't doing anymore lessons
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Tatiana: What about you, Olga?
Olga: I am looking forward to reading the Book of Job to Papa after supper
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Marie: Well, no
Olga: We get more time outside?
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Marie: We get one half hour of exercise daily
Olga: Thirty minutes a day?
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Marie: After tea, After they take the tray, we go out. That's how it works
Olga: It's the middle of June. It's blistering hot
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Tatiana: Marie, Mama has forbidden his name to be mentioned. He is a murderer
Olga: Felix Yussoupov murdered Rasputin. Not Dmitri
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Tatiana: He was there. It was his gun. Rasputin prophesied that if he was murdered, the Tsar would fall. Russia would be in chaos
Olga: And that we would all be killed
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Anastasia: I saw Olga talking with Dmitri the day before Rasputin was murdered
Olga: How dare you spy on me?
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Tatiana: ... Olga, you wouldn't have let our friend be murdered...
Olga: For God's sake. Rasputin wasn't our friend. Always leering at us as we said prayers in our night gowns
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Tatiana: Those were lies made up by the Jewish press
Olga: Lies? He tried to rape our governess
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Tatiana: Say what you want, Alexey wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for him
Olga: And we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him. I've worn that hateful man around my neck long enough
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Tatiana: Put this back on immediately
Olga: No Tatiana: Then I shall tell Mama Olga: tell her
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Marie: Olga, why didn't you marry Dmitri when he asked you?
Olga: Look, I put the icon back on. Will you please now leave me alone. I don't know why you are all so interested in Dmitri
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Marie: ... You would have been married perhaps had a child of your own, a son perhaps
Olga: Can't you both shut up!
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Anastasia: Yes, why?
Olga: Am I not allowed to have my own reasons, my own thoughts? my own identity? All these years the four of use traipsing about in identical dresses. I'm tired of sharing every though, everything. Let me have my own private reasons as to why I wouldn't marry Dmitri
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Marie: But what about Prince Carol of Romania? Why didn't you marry him? You could have been Queen someday
Olga: The offer was withdrawn before I had a chance to refuse it
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Tatiana: It's Olga's business
Olga: Tatiana. Let them know the truth
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Tatiana: You won't be happy until everyone is as miserable as you are
Olga: Miserable like me? You're the one who says we should suffer and suffer gladly
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