Alexandra's letter to her sister Victoria, dated March 23, 1915

Source:

The Life and Tragedy of Alexandra Feodorovna by Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden, 1928

The letter:

Such gratitude fills one's heart, that Peremyschel [Przemyśl] has fallen at last. Now one can breathe freer, as it kept many troops which we needed to send elsewhere. Thank God, on all sides the news is better and in France too. One's heart suffers for the ships in the Dardanelles — such an ignoble way of fighting. I loathe these mines. Three minutes and all over — brave souls. How glorious, when St. Sophia will be again a Christian church, if we live to see it.

Above: Alexandra.