Alexandra's letter to her sister Victoria, dated November 25, 1914

Source:

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

The letter:

To-day is our Ernie's birthday, the first time in his life that three sisters can give him no news. How lonely he must be away from his dear ones, in a foreign country and hating the war. ... One's heart bleeds, thinking of all the misery everywhere and what will be afterwards! The amount of lies, printed in the German papers (and in Turkey), is sickening. The fright of the German prisoners that they were going to be shot, and noses and ears chopped off, and their surprise and contentment, when they are well treated and fed, are great. Ella will return in a few days from Lwoff. She wired that she was in the Carpathen, that there was snow in Lwoff and bitterly cold. Contented with what she saw and my sklad there and my four sklad trains working.

Above: Alexandra.

Note: sklad (склад) = military depot.