Dancing on the Dead: The US Embassy Opens a New Era of Bloodshed
Four days after the coronation of Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra, a banquet was due to be held for the common folk at Khodynka Field in Moscow, where each participant was to be given a bread roll, a piece of sausage, a pretzel, a gingerbread and a commemorative cup. Needless to say, word…