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“He is absolutely stunning, such fortitude of spirit, tho’ he suffers endlessly for his country. How old I am, but I feel like the country’s mother & suffer as if for my own child and love my Homeland despite all the horrors & sins. Despite its black ingratitude to the Sovereign which tears at my heart. Lord have mercy on Russia and save her.”
-Beloved Empress, wife and mother, Alexandra Feodorovna, Sep. 17, 1917