“My dream is to marry Alix of Hesse some day. It’s ages I have loved her, but still deeper and stronger since 1889 when she spent six weeks in St. Petersburg. For a long time I resisted feeling trying to deceive myself that my fondest dream was unfeasible…I’m nearly certain that our feelings are reciprocal. God’s will be done. Trusting in His mercy, quiet and obedient, I face the future.” —Nicholas II’s diary entry in December 1890, four years before he would achieve his, “fondest dream”
Even though I know I’m supposed to hate autocrats and imperial families, and shit, I am still obsessed with the Romanovs. This blog of photographs and quotes about them, at 319 pages, is my new favorite obsession.