Note 15 — Chapter VI · LIFE AT TSARSKOÏE-SELO—MY PUPILS (THE WINTER OF 1913-14)
F. A. (Frederic Appleby) Holt translation
Her Majesty talked English with them, the Czar Russian only. The Czarina talked English or French with the members of her suite. She never spoke in Russian (though she spoke it pretty well ultimately) except to those who knew no other language. During the whole period of my residence with the Imperial family I never heard one of them utter a word of German, except when it was inevitable, as at receptions, etc.