- General Alexeiev: [of the Tsar] We've all given him advice. But there's a sort of... vacancy. He stays for hours in room, doing nothing - pasting photographs into an album. He reminds me of a skull on an old battlefield that the wind blows through.
- Michen, the Grand Duchess Vladimir: [discussing the Tsarina and Rasputin] She's besotted by him. She didn't consider my son good enough for her innocent little daughters, but this filthy, lecherous beast has the run of the palace. No doors are closed to him, downstairs or up, as they say...
- Grand Duke Nicholas: I'm sure Alexandra's far too straight-laced to have a lover, even a holy one...