• Lettre d'ALEXANDRA à NICOLAS, en 1889

    Par Dona Rodrigue le 2 Septembre 2014 à 20:50

     

     

    naotmaa: relishinrussia: A letter addressed to Alexandra; written by a 20 year-old Nicholas. 2 April, 1889. Let’s get a digital translation, yes? :) Gatchina|Dearest Alix|185 (What?) April 2, 1889 Thank you so muchfor your dear little letter, which was such an agreeable surprise to me. I just returned from town yesterday in the night, when it came. We also saw “Liegfried” with Ella[.] I like it so awfully of the goat the whole time. Please tell Eriny[sic] I shot my first bear today! I am sure you have heard from ?? friend the old Count Cleyden(?) lately? With much love ever your loving Nicky. I love reading Romanov letters…just letters in general really. I wish people still wrote them :/

      

    A letter addressed to Alexandra; written by a 20 year-old Nicholas.
    2 April, 1889.
    Let’s get a digital translation, yes? :)
     
    Gatchina|Dearest Alix|185 (What?) April 2, 1889
     
    Thank you so muchfor your dear little letter, which was such an agreeable surprise to me.
     
    I just returned from town yesterday in the night, when it came.
     
    We also saw “Liegfried” with Ella[.] I like it so awfully of the goat the whole time.
     
    Please tell Eriny[sic] I shot my first bear today! I am sure you have heard from ??
     
    friend the old Count Cleyden(?) lately?
     
    With much love ever your loving Nicky.
     
    I love reading Romanov letters…just letters in general really.
     
    I wish people still wrote them :/

     

     

     

     

     

     themauveroom: This is a photo of Nicholas and Alix of Hesse upon their engagement in 1894. The couple originally met in 1884 for Alix’s sister Ella’s wedding to Nicholas’ Uncle Sergei. Nicholas was sixteen and Alix was twelve. They met again in 1889, when Nicholas was twenty-one and Alix was seventeen. At that time he decided that he wanted to marry her. He asked for her hand several times, only to be met with rejection because Alix felt that it was sinful to change her religion from Lutheranism to Russian Orthodoxy. The day after the wedding of Alix’s brother Ernie to Victoria Melita (Ducky) of Coburg, she finally consented. Source: The Romanovs: Love, Power, and Tragedy

     

    This is a photo of Nicholas and Alix of Hesse upon their engagement in 1894.

    The couple originally met in 1884 for Alix’s sister Ella’s wedding to Nicholas’ Uncle Sergei. Nicholas was sixteen and Alix was twelve.

    They met again in 1889, when Nicholas was twenty-one and Alix was seventeen.

    At that time he decided that he wanted to marry her. He asked for her hand several times, only to be met with rejection because Alix felt that it was sinful to change her religion from Lutheranism to Russian Orthodoxy.

    The day after the wedding of Alix’s brother Ernie to Victoria Melita (Ducky) of Coburg, she finally consented.

    Source: The Romanovs: Love, Power, and Tragedy

     

     

     

     

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  • LETTRE de NICOLAS à ALIX....1889

    Par Dona Rodrigue le 4 Avril 2013 à 00:35

     

     

    relishinrussia: relishinrussia: A letter addressed to Alexandra; written by a 20 year-old Nicholas. 2 April, 1889. Here’s the full and correct transcript of the letter; the middle section does not appear in the image above. (source: A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra, Their Own Story) Dearest Alix, Thank you so much for your dear little letter, which was such an agreeable surprise to me. I just returned from town yesterday in the night, when it came. We also saw Siegfried with Ella, I like it so awfully especially the melody of the bird and the fire! Now the Niebelungen are over and I think it a great pity. The other day I also got a frame from Ella with her, you and Ernie in it. I find it charming and she painted round the photo with the best remembrances of winter. There is the ice, the big hall, the skates, a clown, the window with 3 lights, a cotillon-ribbon and a basket with flowers from Aunt Sacha’s ball, the badminton articles, a branch of pink flowers from the folle journee and best of all the Mikado, squinting in his famous way. She gave me too you and her together in Tsarskoe Selo ball dresses a charming photo, which is constantly before me. The last week there was a concert at Uncle Sergei and Ella’s. I saw the Vorontsovs, Dolgorukys and the little arrangement. I thought of the goat the whole time. Please tell Ernie I shot my first bear today! With much love, ever your loving Nicky. I’m guessing he wrote it on the back. My mistake :)

    relishinrussia:

    relishinrussia:

    A letter addressed to Alexandra; written by a 20 year-old Nicholas. 2 April, 1889.

    Here’s the full and correct transcript of the letter; the middle section does not appear in the image above.

      

    (source: A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra, Their Own Story)

     

      

    Dearest Alix,

    Thank you so much for your dear little letter, which was such an agreeable surprise to me. I just returned from town yesterday in the night, when it came.

    We also saw Siegfried with Ella, I like it so awfully especially the melody of the bird and the fire! Now the Niebelungen are over and I think it a great pity.

    The other day I also got a frame from Ella with her, you and Ernie in it. I find it charming and she painted round the photo with the best remembrances of winter.

    There is the ice, the big hall, the skates, a clown, the window with 3 lights, a cotillon-ribbon and a basket with flowers from Aunt Sacha’s ball, the badminton articles, a branch of pink flowers from the folle journee and best of all the Mikado, squinting in his famous way. She gave me too you and her together in Tsarskoe Selo ball dresses a charming photo, which is constantly before me.

    The last week there was a concert at Uncle Sergei and Ella’s. I saw the Vorontsovs, Dolgorukys and the little arrangement. I thought of the goat the whole time. Please tell Ernie I shot my first bear today!

    With much love, ever your loving Nicky.

    I’m guessing he wrote it on the back. My mistake :)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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