Could you tell us a little about the relationship between the Russian Duchess Xenia and her father, Tsar Alexander III? How did her father treat his little princess when she was a baby or a young girl? If you know any stories about this, I would be very happy if you shared them 💗
Hello! I believe Alexander III was excited about the birth of his first daughter, and I can share with you an excerpt from a letter he wrote to his uncle, Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich, about choosing her name:
“You ask why we decided on the name Xenia. I have long wished, if I were to have a daughter, to call her Xenia, because I like the name very much, and in particular I did not want to use the names that already exist in the family again, because it's so boring, always the same.”
I haven’t done as much research on the family of Alexander III as I do about the families of his predecessors and his successors, but I do know that he was especially close to Olga Alexandrovna.