The point of marriage is to bring joy. The implication is that married life is the happiest, fullest, purest, richest life. This is the Lord’s establishment of perfection. (Alexandra Feodorovna, Russian Empress, wife of Nicholas II) Throughout her life, Alexandra Feodorovna kept diaries, and was also a passionate fan of the epistolary genre. In these notes, Nicholas II appears before us not as the ruler of a huge country, but as an ordinary living person who loved, grieved in separation, rejoiced and grieved, dreamed of the happiness of his children. These dreams, alas, were not destined to come true... This book will give you a unique opportunity to see the last sovereign of the Russian Empire through the eyes of his beloved wife.