Tereza, thank you so much for bothering to peruse and for your comment – and for appreciating my own plodding journey. I find unsolicited diaries and letters can give us the best sense of true history.
I loved this entry: (in letter to her father 21 October 1914)
“In the afternoon we went to 4 infirmaries in Pavlovsk with Mama and Aunt Mavra, and saw a Cossack who was wounded by a Saxon swine (i.e., their equerry).”
You can imagine with WWI now in progress, and as a 15-year-old caring for the wounded (note – a loyal Cossack in this instance) ‘with Mama’, she would not be privy to the big picture of geopolitical intrigue, but only hearsay and gossip, and expressed her own reaction and emotions as to who the enemy was – ‘Saxon swine’.
I know you will appreciate what I have in mind for my next book mention. Still with the Romanovs, but it will have a ‘reading’ theme.
Thank you kitten. My sentiments exactly. I refrained from pre-empting with my own subjective analysis – sweet, pious, loyal and thoroughly innocent. Loved her siblings and parents. Loved learning ‘God’s Laws’. Caring (at the infirmaries) with a sense of duty and empathetic to the point of self-sacrifice. Truly a saint.
Heartbreaking, knowing how it will end. It comes to my mind that the dark forces want to unleash exactly the same hate among people to be able to proceed with their next "revolution". Let's all try to NOT let us being drawn into the vortex of evil.
Thank you for this bit of history I haven't known at all. I feel so new to understanding the real history.
Tereza, thank you so much for bothering to peruse and for your comment – and for appreciating my own plodding journey. I find unsolicited diaries and letters can give us the best sense of true history.
I loved this entry: (in letter to her father 21 October 1914)
“In the afternoon we went to 4 infirmaries in Pavlovsk with Mama and Aunt Mavra, and saw a Cossack who was wounded by a Saxon swine (i.e., their equerry).”
You can imagine with WWI now in progress, and as a 15-year-old caring for the wounded (note – a loyal Cossack in this instance) ‘with Mama’, she would not be privy to the big picture of geopolitical intrigue, but only hearsay and gossip, and expressed her own reaction and emotions as to who the enemy was – ‘Saxon swine’.
I know you will appreciate what I have in mind for my next book mention. Still with the Romanovs, but it will have a ‘reading’ theme.
Oh looking forward to that, Julius!
so beautiful inside and outside, what a tragedy.
Thank you kitten. My sentiments exactly. I refrained from pre-empting with my own subjective analysis – sweet, pious, loyal and thoroughly innocent. Loved her siblings and parents. Loved learning ‘God’s Laws’. Caring (at the infirmaries) with a sense of duty and empathetic to the point of self-sacrifice. Truly a saint.
Heartbreaking, knowing how it will end. It comes to my mind that the dark forces want to unleash exactly the same hate among people to be able to proceed with their next "revolution". Let's all try to NOT let us being drawn into the vortex of evil.