Transcript of Alexei's Kaput letter to Koyla

[bkohatl]

Does anyone have a transcript or Alexei's letter to Koyla found in Yekaterinberg with the extraordinary closing of "KAPUT"?

[Forum Admin]

Ekaterinburg

Dear Kolia

All the sisters send greetings to you, mother and
grandmother. I feel well myself. My head was aching
all day, but now the pain has gone completely. I
embrace you warmly. Greetings to Botkins from all of
us.

Always yours

Alexei

The end.

[bkohatl]

Thanks

[nena]

And here's the photo:

And here is one bigger, just click on it:

But interesting, 'the end' in the letter somehow indicates the near end. It was the last letter he ever wrote. I had never read any other letter that Heir ended with 'the end' (Russian - konets).

[TimM]

Did he actually say "Kaput"?

[Forum Admin]

No, he wrote the Russian word "Konyets" which is "the end".  It sort of looks like "Kaput", but isn't.

[TimM]

That makes a lot more sense.

[Превед]

And at the end of the last word of the heir of the vanishing empire, an ancien-régime feature:

Alexey shows himself as a strong speller, remembering to put the hard sign ъ at the end of конецъ, as prescribed by the pre-Revolutionary spelling (reformed by the Soviets), by which all words ending in a hard consonant had to be written with a final ъ. Since 1918 only words ending in a soft (palatalized) consonant, like цaрь (tsar') are marked (with the soft sign ь).