ALEXANDRE II (1818-1881) Tsar de Russie

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ALEXANDRE II (1818-1881) Tsar de Russie
L.A., S.P. [St. Petersburg] 21 January/2 February, 22 January/3 February and 23 January/4 February 1868, to Catherine DOLGOROUKI, "KATIA"; 15 and a half pages in-8 at her crowned figure; in French with a few words in Russian in Latin alphabet. Long love letter, in which he tries to calm a crisis of jealousy of Katia. Sunday, 9 a.m. Sunday. Their delirious bingerles [a term for their erotic frolics] made them come like crazy last night... 3 h. Half past noon. He doesn't want her to get any dark thoughts. "The moment of tearing us apart may be painful, but God will have mercy on us just as he did last year"... Half past midnight: "All the details of our delicious evening last night haunt me incessantly [...]. Our figures bear pretty traces of it today, but we are very happy about it and it seems to me that we feel the same rage to do it again, which would not fail to happen if we could go to bed together in this moment. Alas! we must wait until tomorrow. Unfortunately we have changed Opera and since we want to go there, I won't be able to stay at home, as I had hoped" . Monday 9:00. 1/2 a.m. "Ah! yes, - you are quite right to say that nothing in the world can compare to the happiness and enjoyment that one feels reciprocally from one's beloved. This must explain to you the feeling of jealousy I told you about, for I do not like to enjoy alone. I see that our meetings yesterday left the same impression on us and that you knew how to read in my eyes, as I did in yours, what was overflowing in our hearts, which have been one for a long time"... 4:00 in the afternoon. Tale of his sad farewell "to our sister", who now wears certain Alexander's ring... He recalls with nostalgia their car rides in Paris, "in the woods. The 10 days we spent there together seemed to me like a dream of happiness and we must admit that we enjoyed them like crazy"... 10.1/2 in the evening: "Why do you make scenes for me as soon as I talk to you about the one I used to love
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