[quote]… Maria especially preferred spending the greater part of the day with her children in their play room and playing with them. Thus, from his very earliest years Nicholas was closely tied to his mother. This bond of theirs would remain especially close to the end.[/quote]


[indent][color=gray]— Saint John the Forerunner Monastery of Mesa Potamos, Cyprus [i]The Romanov Royal Martyrs: What Silence Could Not Conceal[/i][/color][/indent]