The Kaiser’s Letters to the Tsar (1920): Private Correspondence Between Wilhelm II and Nicholas II, Edited by Isaac Don Levine

The Kaiser’s Letters to the Tsar (1920): Private Correspondence Between Wilhelm II and Nicholas II, Edited by Isaac Don Levine

Author: Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany

Year: 1920

Levine, Isaac Don, editor. The Kaiser's Letters to the Tsar: Copied from Government Archives in Petrograd, and Brought from Russia . Edited with an introduction by N. F. Grant, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1920. Contextual Background The Kaiser’s Letters to the Tsar , edited by N.F. Grant and brought from Russia by journalist Isaac Don Levine, is a published collection of seventy-five personal letters written by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia between 1894 and 1914. The original documents were discovered among the murdered Tsar’s private effects following the Russian Revolution and smuggled out of Petrograd. First serialized in the Morning Post , the letters attracted widespread attention before being published in book form by Hodder and Stoughton in 1920. The volume serves as an extraordinary primary source for understanding the personal diplomacy, dynastic ties, and political machinations of two of Europe’s most powerful monarchs on the eve of the First World War. The letters are written in English, the preferred language of their private correspondence, and reveal both the political ambitions and the emotional tone of Wilhelm’s overtures. They demonst