sentences:  Initially, Grand Duke Nicholas respected and admired his wife's interest in charities and medicine as well as her being extremely religious.He financed a hospital in the city where her theories could be developed and put into practice and poor patients received care without charge.As time went by, Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievich grew tired of Alexandra's increasing preoccupation with religion and began complaining of his wife's lack of glamour and distaste for society.