I found the right page in the book now
, but I have to say it's
:-/ :-/ :-/ very disappointing.
The one who wrote this book discription where it says that she was Alexey's future bride exaggerated very much!!!
Okay, that's the page:
Translation of the passage about Alexey: (she calls herself "the child")
Sorry my English is so poor
Some afternoons had to be spent in the palace, when "the child" had to come to play with the Tsarevitch. I can remember a side entrance, long stairs, a galery with marble busts and guards at double doors with golden ornaments. I was afraid of these afternoons - the boy was weak and he wasn't allowed to take part in any game, where he could have fallen.
But he owned a large number of books and games. Sometimes the Tsar came into the playroom; then he pretended to be a horse and we rode on his back or he played Halma, his favourite game with us. The Tsarina never played with us and nearly never appeared. Sometimes she stood at the door and watched us or she read a very short story to us. Strangely enough that I don't know anymore if we spoke English or Russian then.
Once later my grandmother told me that one had decided the next Tsarina shouldn't be a foreigner and that "the child" was one of the more suitable Candidates, and should be trained for this.
