Sources:
Letters of the Tsaritsa to the Tsar, 1914-1916, published by Duckworth & Co., 1923
The letter:
No. 80.
My own beloved One,
When we returned from the hospital I found your beloved letter, & thank you for it from the depths of my loving heart. Such joy to hear from you, Sweetheart. Thanks so much for all details, I was so longing to get real, exact news from you. How hard those days were, & I not near you & such hard work, much to do. Thank God that all is better now & may Italy draw some of the troops away. I remember Savitch, did he not come to the Crimea? The new Admiral's face I don't remember, he is a cousin of N. P. — Have the Eriv. & all the Caucasian division been sent to the Carpathans, or is it not true? They were asking me again. —
Engal. said one expects the next heavy battles will be near Varsovie, but he finds our 2 Generals (don't remember the name) weak & not the types to meet heavy attacks he told N. & Janoushk. so.
Am so glad about the paper you sent of my Crimeans — they are then again in another division. — My Alexand. have also been doing well near Shavil. Wonder how my Kniazhevitch's health is, have no news since he left. — Just now received 2 officers — the most going off to Evpatoria — that law of 8 or 9 months is fearfully hard — we have some with broken limbs wh. can be healed only after a year, impossible before, but then alright for service — & as they cannot possibly now return to their regiments, they loose their pay — & some are so poor, have no fortune of their own — it does seem unjust. Crippled, not always for life, but for a time, doing their duty bravely, wounded & then left like beggars — their moral sufferings becomes so great. Others hasten back too early, only not to loose all & may completely loose their health fr. that. Certainly some types (few) must be hurried off to their regiments because are fit for work already. — Its all complicated. —
My back still aches & now higher up, a sort of Hexenschuss wh. makes many movements very painful — still I managed to do my works. Now I shall lie on the balkony & read to Ania, as driving been shaken, makes the back worse. —
What joy if we meet really on Thursday!
Goodbye my Love, God bless & keep you from all harm.
Ever such tender kisses from us all. Yr very
Own.
Nicholas's telegram:
Telegram. Stavka. 12 May, 1915.
Warmest thanks for news and dear letter. Divine weather; the lilac has come out in bloom. I am leaving to-morrow at 2 o'clock. I kiss you tenderly.
Nicky.
Above: Nicholas and Alexandra.
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