Alexandra
Welcome to a world where I hope you will find endless fascination for the rest of your life.
When I first became interested in the Romanovs, never for one moment, did I think the world could change so much - the Russians were our enemies then and in Russia it was forbidden to talk, in public, about the last Emperor of Russia and his family. Then nobody - in the west at least - knew what had become of the remains of the family.
Now I visit Tsarskoe Selo regularly - sometimes for as long as six weeks. I have held the little Grand Duchess's kokoshniks and touched their fragile tissue court dresses. I have been in the Children's House on the Children's Island. I've even met an old lady who used to see the children nearly every day. I have travelled to where they were buried and been to their graves in the Cathedral of Sts Peter and Paul. I was at their own church, the Feodorovsky Cathedral, on the day of their official burial.
When I was eleven and a half, it wasn't just me, but nobody else could have imagined any of that would ever be possible.
Just imagine what's waiting for YOU!
tsaria
