Nicholas II, the last emperor of the Romanov dynasty, and his wife Alexandra had a very good relationship, from free love to life and death (one family was executed at the same time), which put the love of the king and his wife on the altar, as if it were a true love that never broke until death. In fact, this feeling is sincere and sincere, but it is not necessarily single-minded, because at the beginning of the relationship, it is a movie of three people.
Wedding of Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra
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Nikolai's relationship with Alexandra, who was still known as Alex at the time, did not go well. Although Nikolai said to his father, Tsar Alexander III, "My dream is to one day marry Alex of Hesse!" But his parents apparently had a different opinion, believing that the melancholy and frosty Alex was not a proper candidate for empress, and that his mother, Empress Maria Fyodorovna (Dagmar), wanted him to marry Elena, daughter of the Count of Paris of the Bourbon royal family of France.
Young Nikolai
Queen Victoria, Alice's grandmother, also disagreed, and she wanted her granddaughter to marry back to England to marry her eldest grandson, Prince Eddie. In addition to victoria's worries about the political situation in Russia, Victoria also because her second son, Prince Alfred, married a wife from the Romanov royal family, Archduke Maria Alexandrovna, and their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationship were very tense, and she did not think that the Russian royal family was such a good place.
Queen Alexandra
In order to break up the lovers, the Tsar's chief bodyguard gave his master an idea: it is not difficult to make a man change his mind, as long as he is in love with someone else, isn't it good? The Tsar was deeply impressed, and when he and the Empress took the 21-year-old Nikki to the graduation ceremony of the Imperial Academy of Drama and Dance, he found that his son's eyes were attracted to a beautiful girl, the ballet polish girl: Matilda Ksheszyzskaya. The Tsar was satisfied, so at the dinner after the ceremony, he ordered Matilda to sit next to him, and Nikki to sit on the other side of Matilda. Of course, he wasn't choosing a daughter-in-law, he just wanted his son to take his attention away from Alex. The green Matilda didn't think so, and she triumphantly mentioned it in her diary that day, thinking that she and Nikolai were in love.
Matilda Kshesinskaya
"After the show, the Tsar's family all had dinner with us. We conspired to invite the Tsar to sit at our table. The Crown Prince said something and sat down next to me, and I was very pleased. ”
Because of the tsar's matchmaking, Matilda and Nikolai would meet occasionally, and Nikolai did not know what to think, but Matilda was already deeply in love with this man. She is like a colorful bird that falls into the love network, carefully decorated every time they meet, and wants to leave the best side in front of the people she cares about.
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"I took the stage at half-time. The Crown Prince was so close to me that he kept looking at me and smiling. I looked excitedly into his eyes, without hiding a smile of joy and fleeting happiness. —Excerpt from Matilda's diary
Nikolai in his youth
Whoever Nikolai had in mind, he was no doubt flirting with Matilda. Nikolai wrote to Matilda, frequently going to her house to sit down, and writing in his diary: "I have loved her (Alex) for a long time. "Left and right, thinking of one in the heart, loving one in the mouth, profoundly reflects the characteristics of men in some aspects."
Matilda was still dreaming of a relationship with the crown prince, but the scumbag said something to her that broke the girl's heart: he was going to go abroad to Hesse and propose to hesse's princess Alex.
Matilda was in great pain, and she began to struggle to forget the crown prince and return to her old life. But Nikolai's marriage proposal was not smooth sailing, Andyx refused to change her Lutheran faith, but the Russian empress had to believe in Orthodoxy, so the marriage proposal failed, and Nikolai returned to Matilda.
At the end of a performance, Matilda was walking in the corridor on the second floor of the theater, nikolai stepped forward and took her hand firmly, his beautiful blue eyes staring at Matilda... So the hard ice that the girl who had fallen in love had just made was broken, and she hid in her room and cried, because she found that she had fallen deeply in love with Nikolai and could never forget him.
Nikolai began to write to her frequently and send her gifts, like a hairy boy who pursued his sweetheart. Two people kiss and make love, as if they were a real couple.
Matilda knew that she would never be queen, so she cherished every minute and second she spent with Nikolai, but unfortunately, Nikolai still had Alex in mind, and he persuaded his sick father to propose to Alex again. This time, Alex finally agreed.
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Matilda was a spare tire, and when Nikolai got Alex, the girl who had sworn an oath to the mountains and seas immediately stopped counting. When the proposal was successful, Nikolai returned to St. Petersburg and immediately told Matilda that he wanted to end their relationship. Ignoring Matilda's pleas, he bought a house for Matilda on The Avenue des Britain as parting expenses.
Then he said a famous scumbag quote: "No matter what my life is like, the days spent with you will always be the best time of my youth." ”
Abandoned, Matilda transformed from a pure maiden into a socialite, circling among the nobility. She never had contact with Nikolai again, but became the mistress of Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich.
Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich
Without love, Matilda used her relationship with the royal family to become the master of the Mariinsky Ballet Theatre, her dance career was in full swing, but her private life became more and more indulgent, and soon she made Sergei's cousin Archduke Andrei Vladimirovich her guest of honor. In 1902, Matilda gave birth to a son, and both Mihajlovic and Vladimirovich said they were the father of the child, but it is estimated that even Matilda could not figure out who the father of the child really was.
Archduke Andrei Vladimirovich
Because of her debauchery among the nobles, and at the same time she was crazy to collect money, this made Matilda's wind evaluation worse. But what does it matter? Anyway, love has been ruined, and getting a lot of money is also a comfort.
Matilda and son Vladimir
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In 1917, a revolution broke out in Russia that changed the fate of all people. The amorous Pair of Mandarin DuckSsar Nicholas II and his wife Alex's family were executed, and Grand Duke Sergei Mihajlovic was executed shortly thereafter. Matilda was lucky enough to escape the fate, and she escaped from Russia and settled in Paris, France.
In 1921, she met her former lover, André Vladimirovich, who was also in exile in France, and this time, they were married.
Without the care of the royal family and the luxurious life, Matilda seemed to have a new life. She opened a ballet school in Paris and produced many famous ballet dancers, such as the British ballet actress Margot Fontaine, Alicia Markova and american ballet star Tamara Taomanova. Not only that, but during World War I, Matilda was active in hospitals to care for the wounded, participating in frontline concerts, hospital performances and charity evenings. She did her best to help the wounded and became a beloved philanthropist.
Matilda died in Paris in 1971 at the age of 99.
In fact, Matilda was a very fortunate woman, because she was able to escape in the revolution that overturned everything. Loved, hurt, those past events have become nourishment. Without power and status, without money, after washing away the lead, the painful memories of the past seemed to turn black and white, and she turned into a butterfly, took off her green coat, and became a better and more contributing person to society.