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TATIANA NICOLAIEVNA, grande-duchesse de Russie (1897-1918).
Autograph letter signed "Tatyana", addressed to the countess
Zenaïde Sergueïevna Tolstoï, born Bekhteeff (1880-1961), dated November 1, 1917, sent from Tobolsk, 4 pages, in- 4°, text in Russian, folds, but good general condition.
Translation: "My dear Zenaya Sergeevna, thank you very much for your card and for the long letter of October 5 from all of you and from Dalechka. I was glad that our dear Grin visited you. How did you find her? It is good that she can rest from everything at your place. She wrote that she saw Dem. and Rad. Have you seen them? I would be very grateful if you could give them my sincere greetings from me. They are both so nice and friendly. We used to meet them often. They can tell you about it. If you don't know them, ask dad. They know each other. I am glad that the martyr has arrived safely. Today it is snowing, so we will have to work to clear the road for the march. We have been built a barn that we fill with firewood, otherwise they get wet in the snow and rain. Did Dalechka receive my card dated 22nd with the letter to Mousia? I send you all 4 little icons from mom and all of us. They were left on the tomb of St. John Maksimovich of Tobias.
John Maksimovich in Tobolsk. Unfortunately we were not there, because we are not allowed to go there. It is sad to be here for 3 months, to be so close to a saint and not have the joy of bowing to him. He was canonized last summer. Remember how we met last time. How pleasant it was. Poor mistress, it's awful. Certainly you know and understand how much good she did and wished everyone well. Did Bili come to your house? It seems to me that she had to come? Yesterday morning we were at the church, at 8 o'clock in the morning, it was still quite dark, it was frightening to think that it was morning and that it was so dark. Well, I greet you, my dear Zenaida
Sergeyevna, thank you again for all your kind and sweet letters. I give you and Dalechka a big kiss. Please send my greetings to your husband and to Serycha.
Good luck and greetings to Count M. N. "
MOVING SET OF CORR0ESPONDENCES FROM THE CHILDREN OF THE LAST RUSSIAN TSAR, EMPEROR NICOLAS II SENT DURING THEIR CAPTIVITY IN TOBOLSK ADDRESSED TO THE TOLSTOY FAMILY.
STORY OF A SECRET CORRESPONDENCE The letters and postcards presented below are completely unpublished. They were addressed to Zenaide (Zinochka) Tolstoy, born Bekhteef (1880-1961) and to her husband
Peter Serguevitch Tolstoy by the children of the emperor
Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna during the first part of their captivity in Tobolsk before their departure for Ekaterinburg. This correspondence is the complement of the one we had sold by the Coutau-Begarie study on November 14, 2007 under n° 105 to 120.
This moving correspondence has never been published before and remains a unique testimony of inestimable historical value. It reveals to us, through precious details, the daily life of the imperial family during the last weeks of their existence.
The story begins one day in 1915, when the Tolstoy family
Tolstoy's family, who had recently moved to St. Petersburg, were out for a walk in Bablovsky Park and met the daughters of Emperor Nicholas II. The children regularly crossed paths, until the day when the grand duchesses expressed the desire to get to know each other better. Empress Alexandra Feodorovna asks her friend Anna Wyroubova to organize a meeting at her home. Nathalie (Dalechka) Tolstoy (1901-1981) immediately became friends with the grand duchesses and Serge (Serycha) Tolstoy (1904-1999) with Alexis. The two boys are the same age. From then on the children saw each other very often, sometimes daily, until the revolution.
Even during the first captivity of the imperial family, imprisoned in the Alexander palace, they could still talk to each other from a distance and regularly make friendly signs to each other without arousing the attention of their guards during the daily walks in the palace park.
Peter Tolstoy, a distant relative of the famous writer, studied at the Corps of Pages in St. Petersburg. He became a colonel in the Knights Guards regiment and served during World War I in the Grand Headquarters of the Guards and as aide-de-camp to Grand Duke Dmitri
Pavlovich of Russia. Having inherited a comfortable fortune, he did not hesitate, in the midst of the revolutionary turmoil, to put his funds at the service of the Imperial Family in order to organize their escape from Ekaterinburg. But after long weeks of investigation organized by a man of confidence named Sidorof, he does not manage to find enough men courting the family.
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