Source:
The Life and Tragedy of Alexandra Feodorovna by Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden, 1928
The letter:
LIVADIA,
Dec. 31st, 1900.
DEAREST MARY, — I feel I cannot go to bed without having once more thanked you from the bottom of my heart for the Image. It touched me deeply, and tears were not far off when you three gave it me. Bless you for your kind thought. I shall always take it with me everywhere as a remembrance of that anxious time and Xmastide and the beginning of the new century. What sorrows this last year brought us, what endless anxieties, what worries and losses — God grant the new year may be a calmer and happier one for the whole of dear Russia. Sleep well and peacefully. …
Above: Alexandra.
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