ALEXANDER III: MORE ON HIS RECOVERED DIARY

ALEXANDER III: MORE ON HIS NEWLY RECOVERED DIARY

Future Alexander III as Tsesarevich and cover of his diary.
Future Alexander III as Tsesarevich and the cover of his diary.

On December 1, 2015, three rare books: a personal diary of the Russian Emperor Alexander III and two of his books of days, were returned to the Director of the State Archive of the Russian Federation Sergei Mironenko.  These books went missing 35 years ago and were considered irretrievably lost.  A week ago, police seized them from a citizen who tried to get an appraisal of these historical antiquities at one of Moscow’s auction houses.

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