In reference to what someone wrote earlier, it is a complete myth that Nicholas and Alexandra did not read Russian literature. According to N's own diary, they read "War and Peace" together during the early years of their marriage. They named their second daughter after the quintessentially Russian heroine of Pushkin's novel-in-verse, "Eugene Onegin."
I suspect the story that Nicholas and Alexandra did not read Russian literature derives from what Klavdia Bitner, the children's governess at Tobolsk, told White investigators about the imperial children's supposed lack of knowledge of Russian literature. Since Bitner was a liberal, I would take such testimonies with a grain of salt -- what she probably meant was that the children were not familiar with the "seditious" works of writers like Belinsky, Nekrasov, Chernyshevsky, Gorky, etc., the literary saints of the early twentieth-century Russian intelligentsia. It does not mean that OTMA and Alexis did not read Pushkin, Lermontov, Tolstoy, and so on.