St Petersburg
3rd September 1914, St Petersburg.
The young Tsarevich was running towards his sister who was standing by the entrance to the winter palace. He had just returned from a visit to the front with this father, where they had inspected the siegeworks before Konigsburg, Alexai had been there to watch a long range gun being emplaced. That gun had been transported from the state arsenal by railway before being hauled by a team of oxen from the railhead, thousands had laboured to transport it and its pair into position. The gun could fire on the channel which connected Konigsburg to the sea and thus cut of its hopes of supply and reinforcement.
As he ran to his sister his foot caught on a loose paving stone and he stumbled and fell striking a planter filled with his mother’s favourite flowers. A sickening snap sounded as his arm, which he had put out to protect himself broke. He curled up on himself, cradling the arm and whimpering. His mother, standing with his sisters, dashed to him calling his name and then ordering that they send for Rasputin.
The young Tsarevich was running towards his sister who was standing by the entrance to the winter palace. He had just returned from a visit to the front with this father, where they had inspected the siegeworks before Konigsburg, Alexai had been there to watch a long range gun being emplaced. That gun had been transported from the state arsenal by railway before being hauled by a team of oxen from the railhead, thousands had laboured to transport it and its pair into position. The gun could fire on the channel which connected Konigsburg to the sea and thus cut of its hopes of supply and reinforcement.
As he ran to his sister his foot caught on a loose paving stone and he stumbled and fell striking a planter filled with his mother’s favourite flowers. A sickening snap sounded as his arm, which he had put out to protect himself broke. He curled up on himself, cradling the arm and whimpering. His mother, standing with his sisters, dashed to him calling his name and then ordering that they send for Rasputin.