Handwritten 4 page letter to Ekaterina Erastovna Zborovskai͡a describing the life of the Imperial family in exile in Tobol'sk. Includes a picture of their room in Tobol'sk affixed on the thrid page.

Rough English translation:

Tobolsk 26 January 1918

I received your letter yesterday, my dear Katia, and I am very grateful for it. How awfully long it took you to receive our letters, but it is nice that they finally reached you, though late. Have you received our letters of January 19? We are always so glad when your letters are delivered. Are you and your Mama still working, or have you found a servant? You probably had a merry New Year’s party with the people who invited you. I think the names you got were not extremely beautiful [probably during fortune telling]. We always think of you, but we think of you especially much during these holidays. Recently we had hard frost, and it was cold inside the house; it was 7 degrees in our bedroom, and in the living-room it was only 6 degrees. The logs were damp, so they could not warm up the house at al; they just smoked. They have already brought new, dry logs. Papa saws them for small stoves. We are still sliding down ice mound; when he frost was hard we had to run into the kitchen full to warm ourselves a little. The kitchen is full of cockroaches. I am sending a picture of the room where the four of us live. Olga’s bed is in the corner. I am pasting it [the picture to the letter] so that curious people do not take it out. – all our people send their thanks for you regards and send theirs o you…. All the best to you, your Mama, and your brothers. I kiss you, sweetheart, many times, and often think of you. May the Lord protect you. M[aria]

[…] kisses you