When thinking about what else I could add to this page, I came to one conclusion. I need to let Alexei speak to the world. This page has letters, and diary entries written by the tsarevich. All of these were found in the book called, "A lifelong Passion.". I hope everyone enjoys his words, and hears the innocent voice who said them.

Dear Papa,

1 I think of you every moment. I know where you are going now. Keep Well. May God Protect You!

Alexei

Dear Papa,

1 I am delighted by the victory. I'm better. I am still in bed. Anastasia was trying to strangle M. Gilliard. We are all waiting for you.

Your Loving Alexei

Darling Papa,

1 We keep having damp weather but the air is clear. We made a bonfire today, and I smeared my face with soot. May God Keep You!

Your Loving Alexei

Dear Papa,

1 Yesterday we played at war. I took the enemy trench in one moment but was immediately thrown back and taken prisoner. But at that very second I broke away and scrammed! My fortifications remained. I feel well. How is your health? Write to me! A big kiss. May God Protect you!

Your Loving Alexei

My Dear Papa!

1 They have made me a soldiers coat, and I stood guard in it today. Today P.V.P.(Pyotr Vasilievich, Russian teacher) brought me from Petrograd three entrenching spades in leather cases. It has been raining for three days, which stops us playing. I am studying all right and feel well. Write to me! May the Lord keep you! A big kiss,

Alexei

Deal Darling Papa,

1 Tommorow I shall have some money. Derevenko is giving me his yellow boots. Today i shall blacken them. The weather is nothing special, a slight frost, but no snow. I worked quite well all this week. Today there will be a cinema. I feel lonely the whole time without you. I hope to see you soon. Keep well. Write to me! May God protect you! A big kiss.

Your Loving Alexei

Darling Papa,

1 It was wonderful in your bathtub. Mama and the girls were there too. God Bless You!

Alexei

My Dear Papa,

1 Today there is a strong frost! Lots of snow, the tower is frozen. Yesterday i was at Pavlosk, the locomotive there flattened one of my pennies. The day before yesterday I saw at the farm, how they prepare milk, and cream and make butter. It looks very appetizing. I feel well. I am studying satisfactorily. Keep well. May the Lord keep you!

A big kiss, Alexei

Dear Papa,

1 Now I am better and I feel well. This morning I got up late. I have a diet! Yesterday evening Aunt Ella came. While they were having dinner I started to knit a scarf from different coloured wool.

1 Doctor Poliakov came this morning and poked around in the nose and ears, but not in his, in mine! In the morning my temperature was 36.1 and on the street there were 26 degrees of frost. send my greetings to Golan and Mordvinov, also to the others. It's such a pity I am not with you!!! May God protect you!!! I kiss You.

Your Loving Alexei

Dear Papa,

1 Today I got dressed for the first time. In this whole time I have only lost one pound. There are 8 degrees of frost outside. In a quarter of an hour the doctors will be here, probably to poke around again. I miss you. Coming for the Christmas tree? I don't know what to write, everything is the same as always. Give my greetings to all who remember me. May the Lord God keep you! A big kiss.

Alexei

Dear Papa,

Yesterday I had breakfast downstairs, I was very happy. Yesterday mama had a toothache, but now she does not have it any longer. I started two large fortresses with Gilliard, I hope we can have a battle in a few days. This morning it is three degrees of frost outside, I shall go out tomorrow, I am very happy!!!!! Say hello to everyone. I hug you.

Your Alexei

My Dear Papa,

1 Today a French gentleman brought me a cinematograph. He showed me how to make it work, it was very funny. There was a man who smoked his pipe in his neighbor's nose and chased everyone off the bench. I'm typing this for you because it amuses me. Greetings to everyone. I embrace you.

your Alexei

Dear Mama,

1 Yesterday I missed you alot. Together with Papa we sniffed the pillow and the curtain, you know why. Yesterday V. Nicholaevich won alot of money at nain jaune. Today Gilliard had a hair wash. He is as fluffy as a sheep. This ink is impossible. In the evening I prayed for you (+ many times). It feels empty without you. May God protect you.

Your Alexei

My Dear Mother,

1 Today I took my cat into the garden but she was very timid and ran on to the balcony. She is now asleep on the sofa and Joy is under the table. With much love to you and my sisters.

From Alexei

My Dear Mama,

1 Today I am glad to say that I am much better and able to go out again. I am having my lessons as usual and am going to the cinematograph this evening. With much love to you and my sisters.

From Alexei

My Beloved Darling Mama,

1 Thank you for the paper, I am writing you on it, I would like it to be in verse, but I can't(good???!). Now I go for a drive in the motor every morning after my first lesson. Yesterday we drove past the convent. The nuns were digging potatoes, the pigs were all lying in the puddles. The dogs and the little boys were running and everything got covered with dust. After lunch we went out in the motors with papa. We baked potatoes and ate them with butter and bread, it was all very good!!! N. Pavlovich arrived. After dinner there was a film. I thank you and my sister very much for your letters. The weather is again good here(+14). It's time to finish writing this letter. Papa is coming now. May the Lord protect you! I kiss you all.

Alexei

My Dearest Marling Mama,

1 I am writing you my letter. I send you countless kisses. There are almost no yellow leaves, but it is cold(+3). If the weather is like this, you will enjoy it here. Get ready as quickly as possible. Come here, as soon as possible. We await you with delight and with rasberry jam!!!! Yesterday we went over the new bridges. Dmitri and N.P. send a kiss to everyone. I am going for a drive now. May the Lord God protect you all! I kiss you.

Alexei

Dearest Darling Mother.

1 Today I am quite better. T=36.6. I'm going to have lunch with everyone. I want to devour like 100 wolves!!! The day has been wonderful since the morning. The sun is shining brightly, but it's cold (1½ degrees). We're going to see each other in 3 days. Hourrah! God + protect you and my sisters! Greetings to all. I kiss and hug you.

Your Son

My Darling Mother,

1 I was very happy to talk to you and my sisters on the telephone. It was difficult to hear because the line was steel and not copper! It is real winter here. At 7:00 in the morning, it's was -6 degrees. There's lots of snow. How's Olga's cat!?! It's time to send my salary. Please!!!!!!=10! I saw Zhenia's elder brother at the cinema. He's a lieutenant in the Nejinsky hussar regiment. He's very nice and looks like Zhenia. May the Lord protect you, your loving and beloved corporal.

Alexei Romanov

My Dearest Darling Mother,

1 It'sa terrible bore having to write in bed in such good weather. The muscle of my leg is hurting. S.P. won't let me walk. A big kiss to you all. May God protect you!+

Yours

My Dear Sweet Darling Mama,

1 I slept well last night, but got to sleep late. The weather is wonderful. The sun is teasing me! The pains have got less. I can walk although I'm trying not to. I am having a happy day. I am playing alot. My salary? I am waiting!!! A big kiss. May God protect you!!! Hourrah!

Your loving V'th Romanov

My Darling, Own, Sweat Dear Mama,

1 It's warm. Tomorrow I will get up. My salary! I beg you!!!! There's nothing to eatttt! I am also unlucky at nain jaune. So what!!! I shall soon start selling my clothes books and will finally die of hunger. We all kiss your hand!!!! I kiss you many times. Greetings from Joy and Kotka, Toad and Zubrovka. May God keep you!

Alexei

My Dear Mama,

1 Yesterday we again went into the forest and played at robbers, it was very jolly. As usual I had the pony. The snow is now very deep and the trees are quite covered too, so that we often get a shower of snow as we go under them. With much love from,

Alexei

My Dear Pyotr Vasilievich,

1 I send you my best wishes for the coming Christmas and first new year. I hope that you recieved my last letter. How are you keeping? For the moment we have very little snow, so it is difficult to make a mountain. Joy is getting fatter every day as he keeps eating rubbish from the refuse pit. Everyone chases him away with sticks. He has alot of friends in the town and is always running away. I am writing to you during my French lesson, as I have almost no free time, but when I am on holiday I will write more often. Greeting and congradulations to the teachers. May the Lord keep you!

Your 5'th Pupil, Alexei

Today I got even more spots. Played chequers with Nagorni all morning. Maria also got ill. She is also covered with spots. All the soldiers were ordered to remove their epaulettes, but papa and I didn't.

Got up at 7. Had tea with Papa, Tatiana, and Anastasia. We played cards. Maria is also dressed and walks around the rooms. At 6 o'clock we played hide and seek and shouted and made a terrible noise.

The whole day was just like yesterday. In the afternoon Kolia and I ran and jumped in the snow. We watered the mountain, fought and wrestled.

Anastasia has German measles. She spent the whole day in bed. The whole day was just like yesterday. Kolia had a cough and didn't come.

In the afternoon I twirled a little stick in my hand and watched Papa working up on the roof cleaning snow and how they would bring wood in the house. What a bore!!!

Played with Kolia in the afternoon and slid down the hill. Hit the onkle on my right leg. Limped all evening. Put a compress at night.

Yesterday I hit my left leg on the ankle and had a compress all day. I had both breakfast and dinner with Mama in Papa's study. In the afternoon I lay on the floor and drew caricatures.

Spent the whole day just like yesterday. In the afternoon I played with Kolia and made a wooden dagger with my knife, Kolia too, later we attacked each other. In the evening the soldiers destroyed the ice mountain, so we can't slide. We were told so by the commandant.

I hit the toe on my right foot and could not put on my boot. So I had to stay at home.

Everything the same. Did some drawing. Sig read aloud. Managed to put my boot on in the evening and went downstairs. There was a requiem service for great-grandfather at 12 o'clock. Had a compress on my toe all afternoon. Pancakes for lunch.

Everything is the same. Today at lunch I ate 16 pancakes. They were giving them for the last time. There was a service at 9 o'clock. the weather was cold and windy. I had a bath.

We went to church at 8. After an hour we came home and had tea again. In the afternoon I piled up wood in the shed and tore my gloves. In the evening Mama and my sisters were singing. The rest like yesterday.

Everything the same. At a quarter to 12 a short service. The choir sang. 10 degrees in the sun, zero in the shade. Everything is melting. In the afternoon Papa sawed wood, the sisters chopped logs and carried them into the shed. I threw snowballs.

Yesterday the sisters, me and the others recieved half-pound of sugar for the month. It's melting and in the evening a little rain. In the afternoon Kolia and I made a bow and arrow. Isn't it fun to shoot.

Everything as before. In the evening we shot at the target. It was a very interesting pastime. It's getting warmer. During our morning walk, the extraordinary commisar dropped in to look at our yard and garden. The Red Guards have been here already one week.

Alexei confined to bed, as since yesterday he has had a violent pain in the groin caused by a strain. He has been so well this winter. It is hoped it is nothing serious.

Dear Kolia,

1 All the sisters send greetings to you, mother and grandmother. I feel well myself. My head was aching all day, but now the pain has gone completely. I embrace you warmly. Greetings to Botkins from all of us. Always yours.

Alexei

Last Modified: Thursday, March 19, 1998 at 02:57 PM