“This day was celebrated unhappily, as Rose bit the Grand Duchess in the face.”
Selected passages from the correspondence of the imperial family Correspondence between members of the imperial family does not sound very exciting, but, as Gorky found out, the situation is completely different. At our request, Maria Nesterenko read the book “Alexander I, Maria Pavlovna, Elizaveta Alekseevna: Correspondence from Three Corners (1804-1826)” published by the publishing house “New Literary Review” and chose the most touching, funny and interesting from it.