Nicholas from the early years   by Eldath Mon

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Nicholas from the early years was brought up in the spirit of a deeply religious and was sincerely interested in the doctrine of the Orthodox Church [10]. From childhood, was also an interest in Russian literature, as a teenager, he wrote short stories, mostly of a satirical [11]. In addition, since 1 January 1882 until his death kept a diary on a regular basis [6].

Sixteen, Nicholas was formally recognized as an adult. May 6, 1884 during an appropriate ceremony in the Winter Palace took the oath of fidelity Tsarevich father-czar, then the standard military oath Cossack regiment, which he was a member of the titular [10].
Youth [edit]

Three years later, the Tsarevich Nicholas received the rank of lieutenant and was included in the composition Preobra?e?skiego Guard Regiment. For two months he lived together with other soldiers in the barracks [12]. In subsequent years, received an honorary titles with further military: I was appointed commander of Battery Guard and commander of the Cavalry Squadron Hussar Guards Regiment of the Tsar's Majesty [13]. He was also the titular commander of V Austro-Hungarian Cavalry Regiment, which is received from the rank of Emperor Franz Joseph I [13]. October 17, 1888 emerged unscathed from the railway accident, during which the tsar's train derailed (22 people died) [14].

Young Nicholas Alexandrovich led lively social life, but not manifested any interest in politics [14]. To implement the heir to the throne to his future duties, Alexander III called him on his 21st birth to the Council of Ministers and the Council of State [14]. Nicholas participated in the meetings of these bodies, but rarely took the floor, and many of the documents transmitted to him - as he noted in his diary - do not read [14].

In 1890, Nicholas has established twenty-two friends with a dancer Matilda Krzesi?sk?. By Elisabeth Heresch it was the first seriously considered by the relationship with a woman [15]. Tsarevich Krzesi?sk? met during the performance of the diploma students of court theater, which occur after the artist had been invited to the table along with the tsarist family. Nicholas was smitten with a young woman, but their knowledge of the details are not known. We only know that on several occasions they met backstage at the Mariinsky Theatre [16]. By Edward Alexander III Radzinskiego himself inspired this knowledge. Recognizing that the adolescent son - like his brothers - sooner or later will initiate an affair with a woman with whom he will not be able to get married, he found a suitable candidate [17]. However, father also told carewiczowi stop this knowledge, what Nicholas had done [18]. According to most biographers, Nicholas already at that time he was seriously interested in Hesse princess Alice, whom he met in 1884 at the wedding of Grand Duke Sergei Nikolayevich with her sister Elizabeth. Nicholas was sixteen years old and he was four years older than Alice [18]. For the second time Nicholas saw her only three years later, but in his diary notes that he is in love with the princess of the Hessian. His interest in Alice has now been criticized by parents who thought Alice to be very good batch of [18].

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