The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich Quotes in Romanovy: Ventsenosnaya semya (2000)

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolayevna: [looking out the window] Who is it?

Grand Duchess Mariya Nikolayevna: I dont know.

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna: Where did he learn to play? I saw him on the train.

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich: Ha, this is a soldier... Denisov. I know him. He was a sea cadet in the fleet. Now he is a rifleman.

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna: How do you know all of this?

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich: He told me himself.

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna: Where did he tell you this?

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich: We went fishing together.

Grand Duchess Tatyana Nikolayevna: He is a virtuoso. Where did he learn to play?

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolayevna: A person of natural gifts.

Kerensky: I am Alexander Kerensky. How do you do?

Emperor Nicholas II: How do you do Alexander Fyodorovich? This is my Family. My son Alexei...

Kerensky: How do you do?

Emperor Nicholas II: My two older daughters, Olga and Tatiana. The rest of them are ill and are in bed. You can see them if you wish.

Kerensky: No, no I dont want to trouble them.

Emperor Nicholas II: My wife Alexandra Fyodorovna.

Kerensky: Nicholas Alexandrovitch, I would like to speak with you alone.

Emperor Nicholas II: Let's go to the study.

[they leave the room]

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna: What an unpleasant man this Kerensky is.

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich: That is because he does not respect Papa and Mama too.

Grand Duchess Tatyana Nikolayevna: Sure... because our Papa and Mama are nobody now.

Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna: Pardon me?

Grand Duchess Tatyana Nikolayevna: Private citizens.

Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna: You are so insensitive daughter... cruel.

Grand Duchess Tatyana Nikolayevna: Why? I love you and Papa very much.

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna: Why would you say such a thing then?

Grand Duchess Tatyana Nikolayevna: Because!

[shows her hair is falling]

Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna: What is it?

Grand Duchess Tatyana Nikolayevna: I am getting bald!

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna: Don't pay attention to her Mama. She is not herself.

Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna: Her hair is falling out! And you?

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna: And I too... so what?

Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna: My God, how is it? Olenka, you are young women. Why didnt you tell me?

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna: Please understand us Mama. Who wants to be shaved.

Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna: You think it is better to be bald?

[on going to Stavka]

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich: I will not come anyway.

Emperor Nicholas II: Why?

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich: Because I am sick and I will be for a long time. I'm always sick. You know it. And mama knows it. I'm an invalid. A hemophiliac.

Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna: Who said you were an invalid?

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich: Nobody. I know it.

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich: Papa, please stay. We'll all be together.

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich: Will papa still be Emperor?

[shakes head no]

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich: Why?

Pierre Gilliard: Your father abdicated in favor of his brother, the Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich.

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich: So... papas not the Emperor but Uncle Misha?

Pierre Gilliard: Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich also abdicated.

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich: But, who will rule Russia if we don't have an Emperor?

Pierre Gilliard: The Provisional Government created by the Duma will rule Russia until there is a Constituent Assembly. Maybe after that your uncle Misha will reign.

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna: Alyosha! Don't go to far.

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolayevna: There are leeches in there!

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich: There are no leeches in here! Its wonderful water.

Emperor Nicholas II: Tell me Alyosha, what do you think? Was I a good Tsar?

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich: Papa, I love you very much.

[about Lenin]

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich: Is he a good man?

Emperor Nicholas II: I don't know, Alyosha. I've never met him.

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich: Would you like to meet him?

Emperor Nicholas II: No.

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolayevna: Aleksei Nikolayevich, would you please invite the lady for a dance?

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich: I'm drawing.

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolayevna: What if the lady asks? What if she insisted?

The Grand Duke, Prince Aleksei Nikolayevich: Very well.

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolayevna: Thank you.