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Tsarvitch Alexei Nikoleavich standing tall, as his sister Anastasia Nikolaevna is standing in a little white tent.
Tsar Nicholas II with his daughters - Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov. Also with their close friend Anna Vyrubova.
Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanova of Russia eldest daughter of the Tsar, 1910
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, 1904. This is my attempt to get rid of the watermarks that were on the image. I hope you like it!
An exhibition dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the birth of Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna has opened at Livadia Palace.
The exhibit is a joint project of the Livadia State Museum Preserve and the Crimea Ministry of Culture.
Visitors to the palace can see a collection of photographs of Grand Duchess Tatiana during her visits to Livadia, onboard the Imperial yacht ‘Standart, assisting as a nurse in a hospital in Tsarskoye Selo during WWI, among others. In addition, pre-revolutionary postcards of the Livadia Palace and Park are presented.
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna - the second daughter of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna - was born on 10 June (O.S. 29 May) 1897, in the Lower Dacha in Peterhof.
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The eldest daughters of the last Emperor of Russia, Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana posing in full court dress for a official photograph in celebration of the Romanov Tercentenary in 1913. (cr.)
Beautiful HQ formal pictures of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia taken in 1914. (source)
Grand Duchesses Anastasia and Maria, 1904
“It [whooping cough] speedily spread to the nurseries and to the four children. The Russian nurse and I contracted it. I had told the children that they were to be most careful not to cough on anyone, or that person might take the disease from them, and they were very obedient.
One day the little Grand Duchess Anastasie was sitting on my lap, coughing and choking away, when the Grand Duchess Marie came up to her and putting her face close up to her said, ‘Baby, darling, cough on me.’ Greatly amazed, I asked her what she meant, and the dear child said, ‘I am so sorry to see my dear little sister so ill, and I thought if I could take it from her she would be better.’ Was it not touching?”
- Margaretta Eagar
“Rank meant little to the girls. They worked alongside their maids in making their own beds and straightening their rooms. Often, they visited the maids in their quarters and played with their children. When they gave instructions, it was never as a command. Instead, the Grand Duchesses said, ‘If it isn’t too difficult for you, my mother asks you to come.’ Within the household, they were addressed simple Russian fashion, using their names and patronyms: Olga Nicolaiavna, Tatiana Nicolaievna. When they were addressed in public by their full ceremonial titles, the girls were embarrassed. Once at a meeting of a committee of which Tatiana was honorary president, Baroness Buxhoeven began by saying, ‘May it please Your Imperial Highness…’ Tatiana stared in astonishment and, when the Baroness sat down, kicked her violently under the table. ‘Are you crazy to speak to me like that?’ she whispered.”
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K Massie
Once, when discussing portraits of her children with a visiting artist, the Empress declared “It is Anastasia who will give you trouble.”
Olga, Tatiana, Maria: Sit in chair like a normal person. Anastasia: Sits on table
OTMA on the balcony at Livadia.