Personages -- The last tsar -- The imperial family -- A rival court -- The Romanovs -- The Russian Court -- Below stairs at the palace -- The military -- The aristocracy -- The Russian Orthodox Church -- Palaces -- The winter palace -- Tsarskoye Selo -- Peterhof -- The Moscow palaces -- Possessions -- Imperial riches -- Fashion at the Russian Court -- Jewelry, regalia, and objets d'art -- Imperial transportation -- Country estates -- Pageantry -- Imperial ceremonies -- An imperial funeral -- An imperial wedding -- The coronation -- The tercentenary -- Pleasures -- Imperial balls -- State visits -- The Crimea -- The last season -- Epilogue: July 20, 1914: the beginning of the end -- Appendices : Family tree of Nicholas I -- Organizational chart of the Russian imperial court -- The imperial court in 1914 -- Palace floor plans -- Maps of the imperial estates -- Map of St. Petersburg.