Friday, November 19, 2010

Imperial family return home after 12 week break in Germany

November 19, 1910

By cable to the Chicago Tribune

Nicholas II of Russia, accompanied by his wife, Alexandra, and their five children, "left for Russia this week after a sojourn in Germany which lasted for nearly twelve weeks." This is the longest time that the Russian emperor "ever absented himself from the realm." The break "left his intimates in no doubt that such a breathing spell is thoroughly enjoyable."
Alexandra's "undermined constitution" was the main reason for the length of the vacation. She apparently "benefited substantially" from a cure at Bad Nauheim, and she plans to return there next year. Her malady "was diagnosed as acute neurasthenia, bordering on paranoia." The empress is said to "obsessed with the fear" that her children's live, especially, her eight-year-old son, Alexis, "are in imminent danger."
The emperor "profited immediately from the untrammeled life" among the hills and valleys of Hesse. He "derived the greatest pleasure from roving about the countryside like a free man."

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