"Alexey Nikolaevich came twice. He was then seven years old. He was very interested in the crutch prepared for my father and, resting his forehead on the shoulder of the crutch, he peeked out between the sticks and asked:
-Do you see me?, and then he added:
- Whose crutch is this?
We always called my father "daddy", and then my brother would say:
- Papulin.
Apparently, Alexey Nikolayevich liked this word very much, because he smiled and the next time he repeated his question and was satisfied with the same answer. When, after our departure, Alexei Nikolaevich asked my father:
"Whose crutch is this?" - and he answered: "Mine", - made a disappointed face.
I remember how Alexei Nikolaevich delighted my father with the first French sentence he addressed to him:
-Je vous aime de tout mon petit coeur (French- I love you with all my little heart)- he told her one night when saying goodbye”.
From the memoirs of Tatyana Melnik-Botkina, a brief demonstration of the spiritual and compassionate level of the heir, educated under Orthodoxy and with great love in his heart for those who suffered.
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