A Study Guide for Norman Dubie's "Czar's Last Christmas Letter: A Barn in the Urals"
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The Czar’s Last Christmas Letter. A Barn in the Urals
Norman Dubie
1977
Introduction
The Czar’s Last Christmas Letter. A Barn in the Urals
appears in Norman Dubie’s 1977 collection The Illustrations. Many of the poems in the collection are told from the point of view of artists or historical figures or are about them. The Czar
in the title is Nicholas II, Russia’s last czar, who abdicated the throne in 1917 and was assassinated with his family by Bolshevik revolutionaries in 1918. Dubie’s poem is in the form of a letter from Nicholas to his mother, Maria Fyodorovna Romanova, formerly Dagmar, princess of Denmark, and is written in thirty unrhymed couplets. Traditionally, Christmas letters fill in the person addressed with details of the writer’s life over the last year, and this is the approach that Dubie takes. Nicholas tells his mother what his life has been like during his time in captivity in the Ural Mountains. He recounts stories about his servant, Illya, and his wife and