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1 " I dreamed that I was loved. I woke and found it true. "
― Candace Fleming , The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
2 " Books taught me how to think. "
3 " You are filled with anguishFor the suffering of others.And no one's griefHas ever passed you by.You are relentlessOnly to yourself,Forever cold and pitiless.But if only you could look uponYour own sadness from a distance,Just once with a loving soul—Oh, how you would pity yourself.How sadly you would weep.—Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanova, poem dedicated to her mother, April 23, 1917 "
4 " I enjoy the sun and the beauty of summer as long as I can. Who knows if one of these days I shall be prevented from doing it.—Alexei Romanov "
5 " fond,” one catty countess recalled, “with diamonds scattered "
6 " Darling boysy...me loves you, oh so very tenderly...you must always tell me everything, you can fully trust me, look upon me as a bit of yourself...How I love you, darling treasure, my very own one.—Alix, to Nicholas II "