on august 17, alexander, with princess yuryevskaya and two older children, left for livadia.ikhailovna rode. on the royal train. the sovereign's light adjutants and masters of the ceremony. everyone was amazed and did not understand the reasons for what was happening, the amazement intensified even more when princess yuryevskaya stopped at the palace. once she had already lived in it in the autumn of the previous year, when the empress was leaving for cannes. but then her stay was carefully concealed. now it has become defiantly open, the couple almost never parted together, dined together, rode out in carriages and sat together on horseback for a long time on the veranda, watching the children play, and in the evenings, they walked together under the starry sky, and almost all this time the minister of the interior, count lorismelikov, was in livadia. in 1861, alexander, with his manifesto, granted freedom to millions of russian peasants after 20 years, walking along the alleys of livadia park, he reflected on the democratization of state administration in russia at that tim