The Family Romanov Quotes

“You are filled with anguish
For the suffering of others.
And no one's grief
Has ever passed you by.
You are relentless
Only to yourself,
Forever cold and pitiless.
But if only you could look upon
Your own sadness from a distance,
Just once with a loving soul—
Oh, how you would pity yourself.
How sadly you would weep.

—Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanova, poem dedicated to her mother, April 23, 1917”
― Candace Fleming, The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia

“Books taught me how to think.”
― Candace Fleming, The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia

“I dreamed that I was loved. I woke and found it true.”
― Candace Fleming, The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia

“I enjoy the sun and the beauty of summer as long as I can. Who knows if one of these days I shall be prevented from doing it.

—Alexei Romanov”
― Candace Fleming, The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia

“Darling boysy...me loves you, oh so very tenderly...you must always tell me everything, you can fully trust me, look upon me as a bit of yourself...How I love you, darling treasure, my very own one.

—Alix, to Nicholas II”
― Candace Fleming, The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia

“fond,” one catty countess recalled, “with diamonds scattered”
― Candace Fleming, The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia