his widow, his mistress, princess catia left to paris. she took 3,000 of outrageous letter. when it remained in private hands until 1998. and in 1998, the rothchild family bought these letters. why? because in 1945, the red army had captured when they took berlin and vienna but captured the archives and they took them back to moscow. and they wanted to swap tafpblet russians agreed. the arkives aren't very interesting. but last week they got the letters. and they're love letters between a 40-something-year-old emperor and his young schoolgirl, 18-year-old mistress when they met and they started their affair. their passionate, poignant, their they're -- they're increasingly political. and there's stuff in these letters that i didn't know were invented. i thought it was invented in the 21st century. but you'll have to read them to know what i'm referring to. >> so this article doesn't have all the racy stuff in it? >> it doesn't have all the racy stuff in it because some of it is very racy even by the standards of 2016. >> how long was alexander ii the emperor? 1881. 1821 to h