The Court of Alexander III: Letters of Mrs. Lothrop, Wife of the Late Honorable George Van Ness Lothrop

208 pp. "In the spring of the year 1885 President Cleveland appointed the late George Van Ness Lothrop, of Detroit, Michigan, to the position of Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to Russia. Shortly after his acceptance of the appointment, Mr. Lothrop and his wife and daughters sailed for England, and proceeded to St. Petersburg. Here, they resided, with intervals of vacation, for more than three years. Mrs. Lothrop, upon her arrival on Russian soil, began to write to members of her family letters descriptive of the persons and things she saw with the simple idea of giving information to her corresondents."--Introductory Note.