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empress-alexandra · 5 months

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Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia of Russia, 1914.

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foreverinthepagesofhistoryy · 1 month

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~ ♔ ꧁ OTMA ꧂ ♔ ~

❧ “In the darkness of the mystery which surrounds the fate of these innocent children it is with poignant emotion that I recall them as they appeared, so full of life and joy, in those distant, yet incredibly near, days before the World War and the downfall of Imperial Russia.”

❧ “Olga was perhaps the cleverest of them all, her mind being so quick to grasp ideas, so absorbent of knowledge that she learned almost without application or close study. Her chief characteristics, I should say, were a strong will and a singularly straightfor, ward habit of thought and action.”

❧ “Tatiana was almost a perfect reincarnation of her mother. Taller and slenderer than her sisters, she had the soft, refined features and the gentle, reserved manners of her English ancestry. Kindly and sympathetic of disposition, she displayed towards her younger sisters and her brother such a protecting spirit that they, in fun, nicknamed her "the governess."

❧ “Marie had splendid eyes and rose-red cheeks. She was inclined to be stout and she had rather thick lips which detracted a little from her beauty. Marie had a naturally sweet disposition and a very good mind.”

❧ “Anastasia, a sharp and clever child, was a very monkey for jokes, some of them at times almost too practical for the enjoyment of others. I remember once when the family was in their Polish estate in winter the children were amusing themselves at snowballing. The imp which sometimes seemed to possess Anastasia led her to throw a stone rolled in a snowball straight at her dearly loved sister Tatiana. The missile struck the poor girl fairly in the face with such force that she fell senseless to the ground. The grief and horror of Anastasia lasted for many days and permanently cured her of her worst propensities to practical jokes.”

- Anna Vyrubova (friend and personal confidante of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna)

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the-last-tsar · 1 month

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Alexandra with Olga and Tatiana.

#otma #my own #grand duchess olga #tatiana nikolaevna #tsarina alexandra #ot #grand duchess #tsarina

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ella-indigo · 10 months

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One of my favourite OTMAA pictures, finally in big size and good quality.

Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Nikolaevna with Tsarevich Alexei in 1906.

source: Hessisches Staatsarchiv

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life-for-the-romanovs · 24 days

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Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia if they had lived the 1920's.

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#grand duchess maria #grand duchess tatiana #grand duchess #a.i #otma #the romanovs #romanovs #grand duchess olga #grand duchess anastasia #m

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oceanlilacs · 1 year

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Russia! My astonished child's eyes see huge palaces, beautiful parks, fountains, gardens, amazing gatherings of relatives, military parades, religious services in churches glittering with gold, jewels so breathtaking you can hardly believe they are real [... ] My eyes also see long corridors, vestibules, and halls, of a size beyond compare, opening one into another, and our feet trotting timidly over wide stretches of floors, so unbounded and polished, that we seemed to walk on ice. And everywhere, a very characteristic smell: a mixture of turpentine, Russian leather and cigarette smoke, with a fragrance, unique in its own way, that distinguished the imperial palaces. Imperial is the right word, fantastic, like in fairy tales [...] every superlative is at its place in that Russia of the Tsars, that Russia full of splendour, which today is no more...

－ Queen Marie of Romania, “Story of My Life”

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krasivaa · 8 months

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Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia on the Imperial yacht Standart, 1912.

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melinoyart · 4 months

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Grand Duchess Olga, 1910

been looking at a lot of sargent sketches lately and felt the urge to give it a go

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bluskreen-trees · 5 months

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Posting this here, despite it not being my history account, because those who follow me on my history account might hang me for this. (That is most likely incorrect, but there is a possibility I could get scolded.)

Some very late night sketches of the Romanov sisters. May they rest in peace,

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ykzzr · 1 year

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Grand Duchesses Olga and Maria playing with officers 1913

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foreverinthepagesofhistory · 7 months

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Little Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna with her newborn sister Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, Peterhof 1901 🌸✨

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empress-alexandra · 1 month

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Grand Duchess Olga Nicholaievna of Russia on her 16th Birthday Nov 15th 1911, Livadia.

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foreverinthepagesofhistoryy · 5 months

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Grand Duchesses Olga and Maria Nikolaevna of Russia 🤍

“Marie darling!..Well, good night, I kiss you and pat you on your chubby, appetising cheeks. Your sister, O Romanova” 31st October/13th November 1914

#this is so cute!!! 🤍🤎#olga nikolaevna #maria nikolaevna #quotes #otma #romanovs #romanov #otmaa #letters and diaries #1914 #om #russian history #russian imperial family #grand duchess olga nikolaevna #grand duchess Maria NIkolaevna #grand duchess olga #grand duchess maria

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the-last-tsar · 3 months

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Tatiana, Nicholas and Olga being followed by Anastasia and two officers.

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romanov-pahlavi · 1 year

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Nicholas II’s little known third brother: Alexander (1869-1870)

Up until the early 20th century infant mortality in Imperial Russia was among the highest in the world. Many a family lost at least one child either during childbirth or disease. Infant mortality was something that did not discriminate, regardless of one’s position in life, including members of the Russian Imperial Family.

Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich was born on 7th June (O.S. 26th May) 1869. He was the second child, of the then Tsesarevich Alexander Alexandrovich (future Emperor Alexander III) and Tsesarevna Maria Feodorovna (future Empress Maria Feodorovna, née Princess Dagmar of Denmark).

Alexander was the younger brother of the future Emperor Nicholas II, and third in line to the Russian throne at the time of his birth.

Sadly, the “Angel Alexander” did not live a full year, he died of bacterial meningitis, one month before his first birthday, on 2nd May (O.S. 20th April) 1870, age 10 months and 26 days.

The doctors who observed the infant – obstetrician Jacob Schmidt, pediatrician Karl Rauchfus and surgeon Gustav Hirsch recorded the course of the disease in detail. They noted that on the night of 15/16 April, after the secondary flu which infected the child’s right lung, signs of acute damage to the meninges appeared. On 17th April, there was a “slight improvement in the patient’s condition”, on 18th April – “a feverish state of moderation”, on 19th April – “for the most part he was conscious”, but the next day there was a deterioration and sudden death. Tsesarevich Alexander wrote in his diary: “God, what a day You sent us and what is this test that we shall never forget to the end of our lives? Be it Your Will Lord and we shall conciliate before You and Your Will.”

“The doctors maintain he did not suffer, but we suffered terribly to see and hear him,” Maria Feodorovna wrote to her mother, Queen Louise of Denmark.

Grand Duke Alexander was sketched on his deathbed by the famous Russian portrait artist Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi (1837-1887). The only photograph of the “Angel Alexander”, was taken by his parents posthumously.

Sergei D. Sheremetev, the adjutant to Tsesarevich Alexander, accompanied the infant’s body on horseback to the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, where he was buried in the SS Peter and Paul Cathedral. The infant Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich was laid to rest in the northern nave of the Peter and Paul Cathedral in a tiny white marble sarcophagus. On the upper edge of the sarcophagus there is a gilded cross made of bronze, on the side there is a bronze plaque with an epitaph inscribed on it

Alexander’s death was the first of many personal losses which the Empress Maria Feodorovna would endure before her own death in 1928. She outlived her beloved husband “Sasha”, her parents, her sister Alexandra, all four of her sons, and five grandchildren.

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life-for-the-romanovs · 2 months

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Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna.

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#A.i #grand duchess olga #olga nikolaevna #otma #o #my own #grand duchess olga romanov #the romanovs #what-if #grand duchess #romanovs

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