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Svetlana de Rohan-Levashova. Revelation

I am too tired to ask and abase myself. Everything will be absolutely useless,
if the Cheka refused to send an inquiry to Alapaevsk. …………..

I never know where I have to look for him and what they have done to him. I think
about his dear face every minute... It’s so terrible to imagine that he lies in some
neglected pit or at the bottom of a mine! How is it possible to endure the everyday
nightmare, knowing that I will never see him again? My poor Vasiliek (my dad’s name)
will never see him too... Where is the limit of their cruelty? And why are they called
people?
My dear, kind Alix! I miss you so much! I wish I knew that everything is all right
with you and dear Dmitry is with you in these difficult times ............. If I had a snippet
of hope of finding my beloved Nicolai, I think I would endure everything. My heart
apparently learned to live with this terrible loss, but still hurts, because everything is
different and empty without him".

May 18, 1927. Extract from the princess Elena’s letter to Alexandra (Аlix)
Obolensky:
"Again the same nice doctor came. I cannot convince him that I just have no forces
left. He says that I must live for the sake of the little Vasiliok. Is that so? What will he
find on this frightful earth, my poor child? …………………… The cough
recommenced and sometimes I cannot breathe. The doctor leaves some drops all the
time, but I am ashamed that I don’t have anything to thank him. ……………….
Sometimes I dream about our favourite room and my pianoforte. My Goodness, how
far off all that is! I wonder whether it existed at all. ............................. the
cherries in the garden, and our nursemaid, so affectionate and kind; where
is all that now? I have no wish to look at. ................ (the window?). It is covered with
soot and I can see only dirty boots. I hate dampness".
It was extremely damp in the room, which did not become warm even in the
summer, and my poor grandmother fell ill of tuberculosis. The stress, starvation and
illness did their dirty job and she died giving birth without seeing her baby or having
found his father’s grave. Before death she made the Seriogins promise that they would
do their best to take her newly-born son to France (if he managed to survive) to the
grandfather’s sister. Certainly it was almost "wrong" to promise anything in that wild
time, because the Seriogins had no real chance to redeem the promise...
However, they did promise her in order to alleviate the last minutes of her young life,
so brutally crushed, and to help her soul, exhausted by pain, to leave this cruel world
with hope, though quite a vague one. Although the Seriogins knew that they would
do everything possible to keep their word
given to Elena, at the bottom of their heart they did not believe that some day they
could make it a reality…
So, in 1927 in the city of Kurgan a little boy was born in a damp and cold
basement. He was Prince Vasiliy Nikolaevich de Rohan-Hesse-Obolensky, Lord of
Sanbury – the only son of Duke de Rohan-Hesse-Obolensky and Princess Elena
Larina.

He could not know then that he was absolutely alone in this world and that his
fragile life now fully depended on good will of a man called Vasiliy Seriogin.

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