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<p>[QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 9519569, member: 78949"]According to all sources, she was happily married, and he, too. They both seem to have been in love with each other, religiously pious and observant, conscientious parents, and in general in possession of all Christian human virtues except the notion of entitlement that they bore as members of very high aristocracy. These virtues though. seem to have played negative role in the revolutionary events that marked their reign and caused their downfall and death at the end. He was the only known Russian tsar fidelious to his wife and without any hint of extramarital affair. Very interesting historical paradox - a very good human being made a poor governor and politician - I mean Nicholas II.</p><p>The above is not based on this photo, of course, but on numerous studies and historical books about the last Russian imperial couple.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="IvaPan, post: 9519569, member: 78949"]According to all sources, she was happily married, and he, too. They both seem to have been in love with each other, religiously pious and observant, conscientious parents, and in general in possession of all Christian human virtues except the notion of entitlement that they bore as members of very high aristocracy. These virtues though. seem to have played negative role in the revolutionary events that marked their reign and caused their downfall and death at the end. He was the only known Russian tsar fidelious to his wife and without any hint of extramarital affair. Very interesting historical paradox - a very good human being made a poor governor and politician - I mean Nicholas II. The above is not based on this photo, of course, but on numerous studies and historical books about the last Russian imperial couple.[/QUOTE]
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