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Busts of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna
«She (Maria) was strikingly similar to her father, and her gaze resembled his scary gaze. The daughter bravely endured her father’s gaze. He turned pale, his cheeks trembled, and his eyes became even fiercer, his daughter answered him with the same look. Everything turned pale and trembled around, the ladies-in-waiting and the generals did not dare to breathe from this cannibal duel with their eyes… Nicholas got up, he felt that he has met his match.»
My Past and Thoughts by Alexander Herzen
On 29 April 1818 a long-awaited event took place. “At 11 o’clock,” wrote Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, “I heard the first cry of my first baby! Niks kissed me and cried, and we thanked God together not knowing yet whether He sent us a sonor a daughter, but at this moments Maman [the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna] came and said: “It is a son”. On learning we felt ourselves even more happy, but I remember that sensed something important and sad at the thought that this small creature was to become the Emperor some day.” The future Tsar Alexander II was thus born.
April 29, 1818 – Birth of Tsar Alexander II
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The curse of the Romanovs
Part I
