Author's Note

Circa 1867 A man claiming to be Nicholas, the eldest son of Tsar Alexander II shows up in England; the one problem with this was, that son had died in 1865. [Alex II, 1818 - 1881, he was czar 1855 - 1881, life and reign terminated by a bomb thrown by an I. Grinevitskii. This is the man that sold Alaska to us for six cents an acre, two million plus dollars, in 1867. They called it Seward's Folly... Anyway not to get distracted, this Czar has another son Alexander III, Prince Alexis, who becomes the next to the last Czar. But before that he does a number of interesting things, but the one we are interested in is his hunting expedition in America which began with the Svetlana docking in New York, New York 19 November1871. There are more detailed notes in the appendices, of this social juggernaut]

The seond son Alexander III from St Loui Missouris to Topeka, Kansas by train then by horses and wagons crossing Kansas and Colorado to Denver, hunting all along the way. The interesting correlation to this is the journal entries of our Nicholas. It begins in Topeka and it documents the expedition very thoroughly, and according to the sources I have seen accurately. And in the journals are some things that did not make the newspapers or other memoirs. Such as a fond reunion of the two brothers, where they make a pact to Nicholas's true status when Alexis becomes Czar. If you do the math it turns out to be ten years from the journal entries.