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romanovsmurdermystery · 20 days

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On the photograph: Alexander Nikolaevich Dolgorukov (1872-1948) wo provided his testimony quoted below to the special investigator, N.A. Sokolov in connection to the Nicolas II 'murder' case.

Testimony:

‘In the summer of 1918, a member of the State Council and a Kiev provincial leader, Fyodor Nikolaevich Bezak, lived in Kiev. He and I were both part of the same monarchist group. I remember well, on the 5th or 6th of July, - new style, - Bezak called me on the phone and said that Count Alvensleben had just called him and told him that he would now be at Bezak’s and would give him some important news. This Alvensleben is a former diplomatic official of the German Foreign Office. During the era of the hetman, he, having been called up for mobilization, was under the commander-in-chief Eichhorn, and then under Kirbach. According to him his grandmother was Russian, a certain Countess Kiseleva. He was well-known in Russian circles and was considered a monarchist and Russophile.

During this conversation, Alvensleben warned us that between July 16 and July 20 (new style) a rumour or news of the assassination of the Emperor (Nicolas II) would spread, and that this rumour or news should not bother us: like the rumour about the murder of the Emperor, which took place in June, it would be false, but that it was necessary for His salvation. I remember well that during our conversation with him, which took place, as I already said, on the 5th or 6th July - the new style, - Count Alvensleben indicated as the time frame of when the news of the assassination of the Emperor should spread: 16-20 July. At the same time, he asked us to keep our conversation with him secret, pretending that we believed the news of the Emperor’s death. - Alexander Nikolaevich Dolgorukov (1872-1948)

About the Alvesleben:

The House of Alvensleben is an ancient, Low German (niederdeutsch) noble family from the Altmark region, and one of the oldest extant German aristocratic families.

The family’s earliest known member, Wichard de Alvensleve, is first mentioned in 1163 as a ministerialis of the Bishopric of Halberstadt.

The family generated two catholic bishops of Havelberg in the 15th and 16th centuries, but then became Lutheran Protestants. Joachim I. von Alvensleben (1514-1588) promoted the reformation in the Altmark region. The family provided many heads of government in this province, as well as a number of ministers, generals and diplomats in different Northern German states. Several lines of the family were made Prussian counts, beginning in 1798, and the family received a hereditary seat in the Prussian House of Lords. Most of their properties were expropriated in 1945 in communist East Germany.

About Alexander Nikolaevich Dolgorukov (1872-1948) – shortened version

Born in 1872 in St. Petersburg and, according to family tradition, chose the military path for his career. Graduated from the Corps of Pages, the Oriental Languages Course at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Academy of the General Staff. At the same time, simultaneously with his studies, in 1893 he served in the Cavalry Regiment as a lieutenant.

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In 1917, headed the first cavalry corps of the Russian Army. In 1918, left for Ukraine, where he joined the army of Hetman Skoropadsky, whom he knew from battles in East Prussia.

After the hetman left Kyiv, Alexander Nikolaevich joined the northwestern army of General Yudenich where he formed and led the fourth rifle division of the second corps, with which he took part in the attack on Red Petrograd, leading his riflemen into bayonet battle.

After the defeat of the White Army ended up in Estonia, where he was interned.

After a short stay in Estonia, emigrated to France, where he lived until 1924. Afterwards, Alexander Nikolaevich Dolgorukov and his wife and daughter moved to the Belgian Congo, where he served in the local administration.

From 1929 to 1948 he lived in Morocco, where he worked in local companies in various positions. Died in Rabbat, Morocco.

On the images: on the left a group photo with Alexander Nikolaevich Dolgorukov in the middle (bottom row) marked with red cross; on the right: coat of arms of The House of Alvensleben.

Testimony is translated by Seraphima Bogomolova

#research #romanovs #investigation #nicolas ii #seraphima bogomolova #evidence #murder mystery #July 1918 #Dolgorukov #House of Alvensleben #testimony

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quietparanoiac · 2 years

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Натальюшка! Наталья! Наталья, ну чем тревога твоя вызвана?

Ivan Borisov & Valentina Lyapina as Ivan Alekseyevich Dolgorukov & Natalya Alexeyevna Romanova in Елизавета | Elizaveta | Elizabeth (2022)

#Елизавета #Елизавета 2022 #Elizaveta #Elizaveta 2022 #Russian cinema #Russian TV #period drama #Иван Долгоруков #Наталья Алексеевна #Наталья Романова #Ivan Dolgorukov #Natalya Alexeyevna of Russia #Peter II of Russia #Иван Борисов #Валентина Ляпина #Ivan Borisov #Valentina Lyapina #Елизавета 1x07 #my gifs #awful series #and Lyapina's acting in period/fantasy settings is lamentable so far #but there's something about this relationship #or rather about the wasted potential of what was shown in e07 #maybe in a better written script they could be interesting #also series!Natalya is clearly supposed to be older than the prototype #just as their Peter II - who btw is one of the few decently played characters #though even his arc doesn't make much sense #him speaking about not knowing love when he has such a sister...#ridiculous - but still well-played

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ecoamerica · 2 months

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worldoftheromanovs · 1 year

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Suite members who accompanied the Romanov family to Siberian exile: Prince Vasily Dolgorukov (right) with Countess Anastasia Hendrikova, Pierre Gilliard, Count Ilya Tatishchev and Catherine Schneider. All but Gilliard perished by the Bolshevik hand in 1918.

#Prince Vasily Dolgorukov #Countess Anastasia Hendrikova #Pierre Gilliard #Count Ilya Tatishchev #Catherine Schneider

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alleyskywalker · 9 months

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Fellas, is it gay to sleep in your bff’s room while he’s forced to be on bed rest after getting run over by a horse?

#Peter ii of Russia #Ivan dolgorukov #I’m not kidding #this isn’t even the shows now #but an actual historical anecdote #op #history #Russia

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resplendentoutfit · 1 day

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Painting to Dress Match-up

Konstantin Makovsky (Russian, 1835-1915) • Portrait of Catherine Dolgorukov

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royal-confessions · 8 months

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“The intimate adventures of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom and the letters exchanged between Tsar Alexander II and his lover Catherine Dolgorukov, easily surpass the book Fifty Shades of Grey.” - Submitted by Anonymous

#Edward VII #Tsar Alexander II #Catherine Dolgorukova

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gardengnosticator · 9 months

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“Stalin’s spirit makes our army and country strong and solid.” (Viktor Deni & Nikolai Dolgorukov, 1939)

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otmaaromanovas · 1 year

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hi! So I was just rewatching the movie Romanovs an Imperial Family and I noticed that at Tobolsk they (the guards) took pictures of the family (front and side profiles) and I was also just watching Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) and I noticed that they also took pictures at Tobolsk. Did this happen in real life or is it just a myth? (If it’s a myth you can put it on the list for your series :)

Thank you!

Hi! Thank you so much for your question lovely! It made me dig a lot deeper into whether this was actually true and I am pleased to say that it isn't a myth, but something that actually happened. Here are some details!

Pierre Gilliard's diary mentions the family having to have identification photos taken. On 17 September 1917 he wrote that "ID cards with numbers, equipped with photographs" were taken of the family. According to Paul Gilbert, who runs the Nicholas II website and has a great article about this, Alix also wrote about this in her diary.

Pierre Gilliard also wrote about this in his memoir Thirteen Years at the Russian Court, Page 286:

In September Commissary Pankratof arrived at Tobolsk, having been sent by Kerensky. He was accompanied by his deputy, Nikolsky—like himself, an old political exile. Pankratof was quite a well-informed man, of gentle character, the typical enlightened fanatic. He made a good impression on the Czar and subsequently became attached to the children. But Nikolsky was a low type, whose conduct was most brutal. Narrow and stubborn, he applied his whole mind to the daily invention of fresh annoyances. Immediately after his arrival he demanded of Colonel Kobylinsky that we should be forced to have our photographs taken. When the latter objected that this was superfluous, since all the soldiers knew us—they were the same as had guarded us at Tsarskoie-Selo—he replied: " It was forced on us in the old days, now it's their turn." It had to be done, and henceforward we had to carry our identity cards with a photograph and identity number."

It's worth mentioning that all the staff that worked at the palace before the Revolution did indeed have to carry ID passes with photographs.

We have a brilliant example of what one of these passes in Tobolsk might have looked like in the form of passes for Botkin and Demidova, which are now Museum of the Family of Emperor Nicholas II in Tobolsk. I sadly couldn't find Demidova's, so have just attached Botkin's.

Captioned: 'Identity card (pass) E. S. Botkin for the right to enter the house number 1 (“Freedom House”) dated November 6, 1917.'

Which brings me on to a lady named Maria Mikhailovna Ussakovskaya. For clarification, I don't know if she was the person who took the photos for definite, but she was a prominent photographer in the area and could have been hired to take the photos. She did 100% have some connection to the Romanov family, as I'll explain later.

Maria was a photographer in Tobolsk, in fact she was the first woman photographer from the region that operated professionally, and she had her own salon. She even photographed Rasputin - you can see her surname embossed on the cabinet card here, reading Уссаковская

She photographed the family's entourage, too, as the staff were able to move freely about Tobolsk. Shown here are (left-right): Catherine 'Trina' Schneider, Count Ilya Tatishchev, Pierre Gilliard, Countess Anastasia 'Nastenka' Hendrikova, and Prince Vasily Dolgorukov. Note Maria's surname embossed again onto the card, showing it was taken and produced at her salon.

Invoices for the family show that the Romanovs had several payments sent to Ussakovskaya for postcards and "correcting negatives", so we know that there definitely was a relationship between the two parties. She took photos of the exterior of the house in Tobolsk, and postcards were sent by the Grand Duchesses showing the house, so they might have used her photos.

Letter sent from Maria to Nikolai Demenkov, her 'crush'

Which then begs the question of what happened to these ID photos...

Apparently, Maria Ussakovskaya's daughter Nina owned some photographic plates of the Romanov family. It's not explained whether these were casual photos taken of the family, or ID photos, but according to Paul Gilbert "in 1938... fearing arrest, [Nina] destroyed all the photographic plates".

Owning any Romanov or Tsarist related items, including photographs and postcards, was an arrestable offence. The rise of the gulags in the 1930s with the Stalinist regime probably prompted Nina to destroy what she owned.

Personally, I don't have much hope that any of the photos of the family will ever turn up. But there is always a small chance, I suppose :)

To conclude: yes, this happened, photos were definitely taken of the family for identification passes. Pierre Gilliard is a trustworthy source and the fact that it was written in his diary and also Alix's diary is pretty much concrete evidence. The existence of Maria Ussakovskaya and her association with the family also points towards this, alongside the bills and invoices sent to the family at Freedom House.

Maria with her husband, Ivan.

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The woman who photographed the Imperial Family in Tobolsk by Paul Gilbert

Thirteen Years at the Russian Court by Pierre Gilliard

#q #ask #answered #OTMA #Romanovs #Romanov family #Tobolsk #Freedom House #Exile #Captivity #Eugene Botkin #Evgeny Botkin #Anna Demidova #Pierre Gilliard #Alexandra Feodorovna #Maria Nikolaevna #sources #Thirteen Years at the Russian Court #my own

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venicepearl · 1 year

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Princess Catherine Dolgorukova 14 November 1847, Volhynian Governorate, Russia – 15 February 1922, Nice, France) was a Russian aristocrat and the daughter of Prince Michael Dolgorukov (from Rurik dynasty) and Vera Vishnevskaya.

Catherine was a long-time mistress of Tsar Alexander II of Russia and later, as his morganatic wife, was given the title of Princess Yurievskaya.

Alexander and Catherine already had three children when they formed a morganatic marriage on 18 July 1880, after the death of the Emperor's wife, Marie of Hesse and by Rhine, on 3 June 1880. A fourth child had died in infancy. Catherine became a widow with the assassination of Alexander II on 13 March 1881 by members of Narodnaya Volya.

#Catherine Dolgorukova #women in history #House Rurik #people #portrait #photo #photography #Black and White

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masterblackoak · 1 month

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“Their home was old, enormous, filled with tunnels, abandoned passages, nooks and corners ~ and a library filled with her great-grandfather Prince Paul Dolgorukov’s rich collection of books. Helena devoured his tomes on the occult sciences, magic and alchemy ~ including Solomon’s Wisdom, a Jewish book written in Greek in the first century B.C….

An aged serf who worked for the family, Baranig Bouyak, was a healer and magician; he taught Helena about the occult properties of plants and the language of bees ~ and predicted great things for her future. She later recalled in a letter to a friend: ‘All the devilries of the Middle Ages had found refuge in my head…’”

(This passage comes from a book called The Other Side ~ A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World, which was written by Jennifer Higgie.)

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romanovsmurdermystery · 2 months

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On the photographs: top - Paul Leopold Johann Stephan (Pavel Konstantinovich) von Benckendorff (10 Apr 1853-29 Jan 1921) in the costume of the Ball 1903; bottom: a list of personal jewellery belonging to Alexandra Feodorovna which she gave to Paul Benkerdoff for safekeeping; on the right - the translation of the list into English.

In June 1917 while in Tsarskoe Selo, the former Empress Alexandra Feodorovna passed her personal jewellery to Paul von Benckendorff for safekeeping. He then sent it to the Vault Department of the Cabinet where some personal belongings of the Family were kept.

On 31 July 1917 The Family left Tsarskoe Selo for Tobolsk. Most likely the personal jewellery of Alexandra Feodorovna in the above list stayed in the Cabinet.

Extra info: Paul (Pavel Konstantinovich) Benckendorff parted with the Family when they went to Tobolsk. He was the second husband of Princess Maria Srgeevna Dolgorukova (14 Dec 1846-1936) who was the mother of Vasili Alexandrovich Dolgorukov (13 Aug 1868 -1918), a friend and supporter of Nicolas II. Valya Dolgorukov went with the Family to Tobolsk and Ekaterinburg, but in Ekaterinburg was not allowed into the Ipatievsky House. According to some sources, he was executed in 1918.

#investigation #research #romanovs #nicolas ii #seraphima bogomolova #evidence #murder mystery #photographs #alexandrovsky palace #tsarskoe selo #jewellery #Benckendorff #Alexandra Feodorovna #June 1917

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quietparanoiac · 2 years

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What the hell? Why have I been dressed like a skomorokh? Let's cut off his head, shall we?

Елизавета | Elizaveta | Elizabeth (2022), 1x09

#Елизавета #Елизавета 2022 #Elizaveta #Elizaveta 2022 #Russian cinema #Russian TV #period drama #Пётр II #Петр II #Иван Долгоруков #Peter II of Russia #Ivan Dolgorukov #Алексей Онежен #Иван Борисов #Aleksey Onezhen #Ivan Borisov #Елизавета 1x09 #my gifs

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worldoftheromanovs · 1 year

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Prince Vasily Alexandrovich Dolgorukov (“Valya”) to his mother after he arrived in Tobolsk with the Romanov family and suite.

Tobolsk (14 August, 1917)

My very dear Mother,

You will see here the houses where we live. The 1st is reserved exclusively for the family, the 2nd [belonging to] the Merchant Kornilov has 7 rooms above containing Hendrikova, Schneider, Ilyusha, me, two ladies-in-waiting, and two domestics. One room is destined for the TsIK. Below, the Commandant, Botkin and a room for his daughter, one for the Doctor, Derevenko, and two officers. For meals one crosses the main street to the house. The sick ones, Alexis and Marie, are getting better. In general, my dear, it is filthy and barely civilized — it’s frightening! Thank God I’m doing well at present. It is too hot. I asked Makarov to have the permission [Russian sentence: It will all work out when needed to return with feelings. Makarov promised to work on it. Everything else is going well.] I embrace you to my heart warmly, and kiss your hands. How God has protected us until this lodging! Your Valia [Final word illeg.]

This floor plan of the Tobolsk governor’s mansion was attached to Dolgorukov’s letter, drawn in his own hand (English text in red is Helen Azar’s)

#tobolsk #1917 #letters

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ao3feed-rhaenicent · 5 months

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#ao3feed #fanfic #rhaenicent #alicent hightower #rhaenyra targaryen #hotd

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pastedpast · 1 year

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Long Live Stalin, Voroshilov and the Red Army.

Nikolai Dolgorukov, 1934.

I may be paraphrasing slightly, but the quote, "Where there are people, there are problems. No people, no problem", is often attributed to leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 - 1953, Joseph Stalin. Of course, Stalin's methods of dealing with problematic folk were execution and elimination in various forms (Wikipedia: "mass repression, ethnic cleansing, wide-scale deportation, hundreds of thousands of executions, and famines that killed millions"). Unfortunately, I do not have any of those options at my disposal and have to make do with simply putting my headphones on and ignoring my opponents, but I understand the sentiment.

Of course, I'm being flippant. Stalin was a bastard on a gigantic, humongous, gargantuan scale, running a dictatorship far worse than I could ever imagine living under. And as with everything else, my knowledge about the Soviet Union is patchy, but nevertheless remains a topic I am always interested in learning more about.

Additional info: Voroshilov (mentioned in the title) was a prominent military officer and politician during the Stalin era.

Further info re. the artist Nikolai Dolgorukov here (not read it yet).

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atomiccupcakepatrol · 2 years

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Balancing the energies of Rahu - every Saturday

Balancing the energies of Rahu – every Saturday

The illusions that Rahu creates in our minds disappear in time and space, just like smoke in the air. However, the smoker continues to smoke for the momentary pleasure that flows from it while we continue to chase mirages, and within these illusions lies the joy of our existence. A good example of Rahu influence can be seen in the life story of Yuri Dolgorukov, a son of Prince Monomakh. Yuri…

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