The real thing is that King Nicholas in the beginning didn't really know what to do with his daughters and he was in panic when he realised that his small palace would be soon full of spinsters,because Princesses of Montenegro were too much educated to marry ordinary people and yet not good enough to marry into some royal family!He built a monastery on Skadar Lake that schould be their home...,but then happened something that no one could expect!Russian Emperor Alexander III offered to be the patron of his daughters and brought them to Russia to Smolny Institute where everything began...I mean all those ''love matches'' that no one could ever expect!I was reading some notes from Prince Felix Yusupov's diary where he said that the Grand Duchesses Anastasia and Militza played leading parts at the Court of Russia at that period!He is also saying that these two Grand Duchesses were in St.Peterburg society circles called ''the black peril'' and that their palace Znamenka(near Peterhof and Strelna Palaces) was the central point of the powers of evil...
