peremadeleine:Olga had increasingly been tasked by Alexandra with trying to make the wilful Alexey b
peremadeleine:Olga had increasingly been tasked by Alexandra with trying to make the wilful Alexey behave in public during her own frequent periods of indisposition. Once, attending a Boy Scout parade, he had tried to get out of the carriage to join in and when Olga had restrained him had ‘slapped her face as hard as he could’. In response Olga hadn’t so much as winced but had taken his hand and stroked it till Alexey had recovered his equilibrium. It was only when they were safely back at home that she had run to her room and burst into tears. Alexey was duly contrite; for two days he ‘was repentance itself and made Olga accept his portion of dessert at table’. He loved Olga perhaps more than the others, for whenever he was reprimanded by his parents he would ‘declare that he was Olga’s boy, pick up his toys, and go to her apartment’.Helen Rappaport, The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra -- source link
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