At the beginning of 1889, the Hessian Royal Family paid an extended visit to St. Petersburg. Grand Duke Ludwig IV came with his twenty-year-old son and heir Ernst Ludwig, called Ernie, and his sixteen-year-old daughter Princess Alix. They stayed with the Grand Duke's daughter, Grand Duchess Elizabeth …
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