A letter from the Grand Duke

From: New Orleans Magazine | Date: February 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

ROMANOVS VISIT TO NEW ORLEANS IS PART OF THE LOSE IN THE EVOLUTION OF OUR CARNIVAL. BUT WHAT DID HE REALLY THINK ABOUT LOCAL WOMEN. THE CITY AND THE PARAE? HE WROTE ABOUT IT ALL TO HIS MAMA

IN EARLY 1872, RUSSIAN GRAND DUKE Alexei Romanov wrote to his mother, "You can imagine how sad I was to greet the New Year alone, in a foreign land for the first time in my life without all of you ... How many more New Years will I have to greet without you?" The Grand Duke, then 22, had arrived in the port of New York in November 1871 to much excitement and fanfare. As the third son of the current tsar, ...

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