Tsar's Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1931. Elsa sat by the window, painting the landscape below. And her children playing in its grass. Life had been extremely peaceful and pleasant since her marriage and move to the Russian Empire.
Alexei was being groomed to become his father's successor. A failure Nicholas did not intend to replicate from his own upbringing. And the Tsar had even asked Bruno for a list of material that he would recommend.
Bruno having compiled a large curriculum on necessary readings to rule a nation, and run a war campaign, all of which was more philosophical and instructive than actually doctrinal based, had sent the list he used as the material for the education of his own children.
As well as the way he handled discussions with them, teaching them how to think, not what to think. Sure Alexei was now an adult, and had begun learning the basis for rulership many years ago.
