The locations
Numerous locations mentioned and featured throughout The Last Days of the Romanov Dancers actually existed. These include (but are not limited to):
The Wandering Dog (a club populated by bohemian and artistic types)
Kiuba (a restaurant frequented by the upper classes)
Leiner's (a delicatessen famous for its Black Sea oysters. A favourite lunch place of Diaghilev's.)
The Mariinsky Theatre
The Alexandrinsky Theatre
The Hermitage Palace (the Romanov family's favourite palace)
The Hermitage Theatre (the Romanov family's private theatre)
The Nevsky River
The Alexander Palace
The Field of Mars (the burial place of the victims of the Russian revolution)
Teatralnaya Square (square outside the Mariinsky Theatre, used for training troops during World War I)
Kalanchyovskaya Square
The Nikolayevsky Terminal
Mathilde Kschessinska's dacha (country house)
The Konstantin Palace
Cartier (the jeweller)
Putilov Mill (where a strike, considered the catalyst of the Russian revolution, took place)
The Wandering Dog (a club populated by bohemian and artistic types)
Kiuba (a restaurant frequented by the upper classes)
Leiner's (a delicatessen famous for its Black Sea oysters. A favourite lunch place of Diaghilev's.)
The Mariinsky Theatre
The Alexandrinsky Theatre
The Hermitage Palace (the Romanov family's favourite palace)
The Hermitage Theatre (the Romanov family's private theatre)
The Nevsky River
The Alexander Palace
The Field of Mars (the burial place of the victims of the Russian revolution)
Teatralnaya Square (square outside the Mariinsky Theatre, used for training troops during World War I)
Kalanchyovskaya Square
The Nikolayevsky Terminal
Mathilde Kschessinska's dacha (country house)
The Konstantin Palace
Cartier (the jeweller)
Putilov Mill (where a strike, considered the catalyst of the Russian revolution, took place)