The Russian could not comprehend such a condition, and haughtily refused to treat with anyone but the King.

He was received with much ceremony by the House of Lords, and then to their consternation arose and said: "I have come from my sovereign charged with an important message to your King--Charles the First.

It is long since I came, and I have not been permitted to see him nor to deliver the letter from my master." The embarrassed English _boyars_ replied that they would give their reasons for this by letter.
When the Tsar was informed by Charles II.

of the execution of his father, sternly inflicted by his people, he could not comprehend such a condition.

He at once forbade English merchants to live in any of his cities except Archangel, and sent money and presents to the exiled son.
An interest attaches to the marriage of Alexis with Natalia, his second wife.