On the frozen night of December 5, 1741, a group of guards marched into the bedchamber of Russia's infant emperor Ivan VI and arrested him and his mother, Anna Leopoldovna.
He has spoken frequently about the death of his first wife, Neilia, and his infant daughter in a 1972 car crash; the death of his son, Beau, in 2015 became an occasion of national mourning.
Presently Jo appeared, proudly bearing a flannel bundle laid forth upon a large pillow. Jo's face was very sober, but her eyes twinkled, and there was an odd sound in her voice of repressed emotion of some sort.