"Russian." But he was told to learn English quickly because he couldn't expect anyone here to speak it. French, maybe, but he was too young and too devoid of a governess or teacher to start to learn it yet. And the people in his surroundings were a very patriotic kind, they made a point of speaking Russian a lot of the times. He's never been to court. "But my father like Finnish good." Maybe that is why nobody told him about him before? Because he was more Finnish than Russian and they didn't like that?