Excerpt of a letter from Alexandra to Nicholas in early 1916: It was so nice you read to us & I hear your voice now and always! And your tender caresses, oh how deeply I thank you for them - They warmed me up and were such a consolation; when the heart is heavy with care & anxieties, every tenderness gives one force and intense happiness. Oh, could but our children be equally blessed in their married lives - the idea of Boris is too unsympathetic & the child would, I feel convinced, never agree to marry him & I should perfectly well understand her. Only never let Miechen guess other thoughts have filled the childs head & heart - those are a young girls holy secrets which others must not know of, it would terribly hurt Olga, who is so susceptible. That conversation has made me feel far from cheery, & as it is I feel very low at your going & my old heart cramps itself in pain - cannot get accustomed to our separations.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 04:05:49 +0000
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