Favourite books?

[Nathalie]

I wonder what books did Alexandra Feodorovna like to read? Who were her favouritue authors? (I read somewhere that she liked Maykov's and Fet's poetry)
I know that she was impressed by religious tracts but what kind of "secular" literature she preferred?

Thank you in advance for replies-)

[Clemence]

marie corelli was one of her favourites ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Corelli

[Clemence]

perhaps somebody knows if she ever read ''alice's adventures in wonderland'' when she was young? or her doughters when they were little?

[Helen]

A book she certainly read is Edward W. Darby´s "The Angel Princess" about her mother Princess Alice.

[GrandDuchessAndrea]

perhaps somebody knows if she ever read ''alice's adventures in wonderland'' when she was young? or her doughters when they were little?

I read in The Last Empress that Victoria, (Alix's sister,) was reading this book aloud to her siblings when she complained of a sore throat...start of the fatal diptheria epidemic in 1878. Greg King gets this from "Longford", or so the sources say! Whoever "Longford" is, I have no idea!

[Helen]

According to the bibliography of his book: Elizabeth Longford, " Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed" , New York: Harper & Row, 1964.

[Thomas_Hesse]

She wrote that she read "Jane Eyre" as well as the correspondence between Empress Maria Theresia of Austria and her daughter Queen Marie Antoinette.

But also many books dealing with European history especially English German and even Italian history

[Helen]

She also read:

• "Jess" by Sir Henry Rider Haggard
• “Les Demoiselles de Liré” by Paul Perret
• "Alexandra Feodorowna, Empress of Russia" by August Theodor von Grimm

[Sunny]

G. King in "The last Empress" wrote that Alix, when was young, read a complete historical series of books on the Hoenstaufen, but i don't remember if there was a complete title.

[GrandDuchessAndrea]

a complete historical series of books on the Hoenstaufen

What is the Hoenstaufen? And what page of TLE is this on?

[Helen]

Just a typing error, I guess. The House of Hohenstaufen was a medieval German dynasty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Hohenstaufen).
I don't know whether Greg King mentioned the title of the series that Alexandra read, but the abovementioned Wikipedia page refers to a book in several volumes by Paul Friedrich Stälin from 1882, so who knows, she may very well have read this very work. 

[Sunny]

I was completely sure of what i wrote but now i can't relocate it - maybe because i'm in a hurry and i'm going on through the pages without much attention!
Later this afternoon i'll check better, also in The lost World of N&A, but i was sure it was in The last Empress.  hope i did not dream it!
I'll check again and let you know the page.

[po3a]

marie corelli was one of her favourites ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Corelli

   I found this very interesting!  Do you know which books of Corelli she read?

[Rodney_G.]

She also read:

• "Jess" by Sir Henry Rider Haggard
• “Les Demoiselles de Liré” by Paul Perret
• "Alexandra Feodorowna, Empress of Russia" by August Theodor von Grimm

That last one, "Alexandra Feodorowna" by von Grimm, was that a biography  of herself ? If so, how weird?

[Robert_Hall]

That AF was most likely Charlotte of Prussia [1798-1860] Baby factory consort of Nicholas Ist. Von Grimm was tutor to their children and wrote the bio of her- in German I think.