Letter From His Holiness Aleksei II Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia To the Head of the Russian Imperial House H.I.H. Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna

21 June 2004
No. 3651  

Your Highness!

Please accept my heartfelt thanks for participating in the celebrations of my 75-th birthday and the 14-th anniversary of my enthronement as patriarch.

Please also accept my profound thanks for the award of the devices of the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called, to which Your Highness has numbered me a member.

With deepest respects, 

Aleksei
Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia