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Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Recreated tiles for the Maple Room
Source:
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Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Alexandra on a bridge in the Alexander Park, then and now
Source:
Photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK
https://vk.com/lastromanovs?w=wall-56510987_49779
Alexandra Feodorovna on the bridge over the Obvodny Canal, Tsarskoye Selo, spring 1908 vs February 23, 2020.
(photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK)
Photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK
https://vk.com/lastromanovs?w=wall-56510987_49779
Alexandra Feodorovna on the bridge over the Obvodny Canal, Tsarskoye Selo, spring 1908 vs February 23, 2020.
(photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK)
Sunday, March 15, 2020
Alexandra's letter to Alexei, dated May 27, 1916
Source:
Transcript and photos of letter courtesy of GARF (State Archives of the Russian Federation) via Olga Grigor'eva at lastromanovs on VK
https://vk.com/lastromanovs?w=wall-56510987_49645
The letter:
Царское Село.
27-го Мая 1916 г.
Здорова Ефрейтер Романов!
Поздравляю в производством! — Душка Ты мой, Ты важный такой теперь! Как уроки идут, читаешь, пишешь иногда? Но Mr. Gibbs будет грустен если все забудешь. Собирали ландыш и незабушки на детском острове и катались в Павловск. Была у Ани в Лазарете, все очень чисто перекрашено очень "апетитно" — есть там новые раненые. Мои фотогр. по пути очень удачно вышли. Заказала еще и пошлю вам потом.
Крепко благодарю Тебя за милую открытку — все раненые очень рады что Папа Тебе дал "Ефрейтера".
Ну прощай мой Ангел, нежно Тебя целую, благословляю +.
Твоя собственная
Мама.
Поклон Жилику и Сынему.
Спасибо первому за письмо.
English translation (my own):
Tsarskoe Selo.
May 27, 1916.
Strong Lance Corporal Romanov!
Congratulations on the promotion! — My darling, You are so important now! How are lessons going, are you reading, writing sometimes? But Mr. Gibbs will be sad if you forget everything. We gathered lily-of-the-valley and forget-me-nots on the Children's Island and rode to Pavlovsk. Ania was at the Infirmary, everything is very cleanly redecorated very "appetisingly" — there are new wounded there. My photos along the way came out very well. I also ordered it and will send it to you later.
I thank you very much for the nice postcard — all the wounded are very happy that Papa promoted you to "Lance Corporal."
Now, goodbye my Angel, I kiss You tenderly and bless You. +
Your own
Mama.
Regards to Zhilik and Siny.
Thank first for the letter.
Above: Alexandra and Alexei. Photo courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK.
Transcript and photos of letter courtesy of GARF (State Archives of the Russian Federation) via Olga Grigor'eva at lastromanovs on VK
https://vk.com/lastromanovs?w=wall-56510987_49645
The letter:
Царское Село.
27-го Мая 1916 г.
Здорова Ефрейтер Романов!
Поздравляю в производством! — Душка Ты мой, Ты важный такой теперь! Как уроки идут, читаешь, пишешь иногда? Но Mr. Gibbs будет грустен если все забудешь. Собирали ландыш и незабушки на детском острове и катались в Павловск. Была у Ани в Лазарете, все очень чисто перекрашено очень "апетитно" — есть там новые раненые. Мои фотогр. по пути очень удачно вышли. Заказала еще и пошлю вам потом.
Крепко благодарю Тебя за милую открытку — все раненые очень рады что Папа Тебе дал "Ефрейтера".
Ну прощай мой Ангел, нежно Тебя целую, благословляю +.
Твоя собственная
Мама.
Поклон Жилику и Сынему.
Спасибо первому за письмо.
English translation (my own):
Tsarskoe Selo.
May 27, 1916.
Strong Lance Corporal Romanov!
Congratulations on the promotion! — My darling, You are so important now! How are lessons going, are you reading, writing sometimes? But Mr. Gibbs will be sad if you forget everything. We gathered lily-of-the-valley and forget-me-nots on the Children's Island and rode to Pavlovsk. Ania was at the Infirmary, everything is very cleanly redecorated very "appetisingly" — there are new wounded there. My photos along the way came out very well. I also ordered it and will send it to you later.
I thank you very much for the nice postcard — all the wounded are very happy that Papa promoted you to "Lance Corporal."
Now, goodbye my Angel, I kiss You tenderly and bless You. +
Your own
Mama.
Regards to Zhilik and Siny.
Thank first for the letter.
Above: Alexandra and Alexei. Photo courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK.
The St. Paul Globe on the bad relationship between Alexandra and Marie Feodorovna, dated May 15, 1904
Source:
The St. Paul Globe, published in St. Paul, Minnesota on May 15, 1904
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90059523/1904-05-15/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1894&sort=relevance&rows=20&words=Czarina&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=18&state=&date2=1918&proxtext=Czarina&y=14&x=13&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=5
The article:
THE CZARINA'S OWN LITTLE WAR
THE Beautiful Woman Who Sits on Russia's Throne Suffers From Too Much Mother-in-Law and Declines to Submit
THE Czar's Mother and His Wife Fail to Agree on Many Points, and Their Differences Cannot Be Reconciled
THE Czarina has a little war of her own which has been raging for several years. She suffers from too much mother-in-law. That is what the St. Petersburg gossips said last autumn when the Empress retired to the country, officially to nurse a bad attack of earache. There was a general smiling and raising of eyebrows in court circles when the country visit was announced.
The Dowager Empress Is One of the Cleverest of Women.
"It is a plausible excuse, of course," said a Russian lady to an American woman, who was at that time visiting St. Petersburg, "but in spite of the almost sacred seclusion in which our royal family live and the admirable police protection they enjoy, rumor cannot be stifled. For some years we have all been aware that the Dowager Empress and her pale, proud, beautiful daughter-in-law are not as friendly as they might be.
"The trouble began as long ago as the first year of the Emperor's marriage, which was carried out wholly at the suggestion of his mother, who is one of the cleverest, most capable, managing and ambitious women in Europe. She is the true daughter of her enterprising mother, Queen Louise of Denmark. That lady was chiefly famous as the best butter-maker in Denmark and the best match-maker in the world. Queen Louise married her fourth daughter, Marie Dagmar, to the late Emperor of all the Russias, and never had an occasion to regret her choice of her son-in-law for her favorite child.
Her Beauty and Her Mental Strength Are Both Remarkable.
"The Princess Dagmar, at the time of her marriage, was considered quite as beautiful as her elder sister, who married King Edward. So fair was this Danish princess that when I saw her enter London, in the train of her sister Alexandra, I thought her far more beautiful than the latter. She was tall and slender, her skin was like milk and roses, and her face beamed with intelligence. Furthermore, her manners were the perfection of natural social grace, tact and good will, cultured by the most careful training."
The Russian woman went on to explain that Princess Dagmar was a great success in England. When a little while afterwards her betrothal to the heir of the Russian throne was announced, everybody said that she had a big opportunity and would make the most of it. And that is just what she did. She was baptized into the Russian Church as Marie Feodorovna, and speedily became a true Russian princess.
She set about captivating the heart of her husband and winning his confidence, and she evidently realized both of these ambitions. She also won the people and officials with ease. Every man who met her realized that she combined the brain of a true statesman with all the intuitive delicacy of a woman.
After her first two children were born she lost a great deal of her beauty, but she has retained her fine, slim figure and her clear colour, and when gorgeously dressed for a State function, as she loves to be, she is a dazzling and impressive personage. Her health is superb, and her industry irrepressible. She gets up with the lark, has a sponge bath in ice-cold water, breakfasts, exercises, and then gets to work.
How the Dowager Chose a Wife For Her Son Nicholas.
She loves work, and power and prestige are essential to her happiness. She had complete influence over her husband. He told her everything, took counsel with her before signing State papers or giving an important audience, and brought up his son Nicholas to reverence and obey her opinion as if it were Gospel.
When the question of selecting a wife for Nicholas came uppermost in the minds of the royal pair, it was the Empress who went wife-hunting for her son, and who decided that Princess Alix of Hesse, the niece of her sister, then Princess of Wales, would prove an ideal consort. She talked the matter over with her relatives, and Princess Alix was told of the good match in store for her.
This princess was beautiful, but very impecunious; no other royal gentleman had asked for her hand; and there was much surprise and disgust in her family when at first she declared that the future Czar was not to her liking.
But the Empress of Russia, while thoroughly angry, was none the less determined to have her way. It is said that once her mind is made up she never changes it. Anyway, the Princess Alix was wedded to the present Czar at the bedside of his dying father. The Empress Dagmar stood by and saw the business carried out, thereby consummating her greatest blunder.
She had supposed that her new daughter-in-law would be like clay in her hands, to be moulded as she chose, and that idea was strengthened by the girl's consent to the marriage. Naturally, the Dowager wished to have a non-entity for her son's wife, so that she might continue to wield her old power and influence. She had passed over other eligible princesses because she had thought they would prove to be dangerous rivals. But, for once in her life, she made a great mistake, which she has often had occasion to regret.
Princess Alix was pretty, even beautiful; she was young and she had not had a very elaborate education; but her mother-in-law did not realize that she possessed a mind of her own. She had had a romance in her teens, a hopeless love affair with a gallant German captain; she hated dress and elaborate etiquette and consequently she came into the formal Russian Court very sore at heart and much injured at having to change her religion.
From the beginning there were good grounds for her disgust with her matrimonial bargain; but gossip says her first contest with her mother-in-law arose over a pair of pearl earrings.
She did not mind at all when the Dowager Empress went on managing the housekeeping affairs of the palace, giving advice on official business to the young Emperor, and generally enjoying all the power and influence she had formerly possessed; but she did seriously object to the Dowager's use of a pair of magnificent pearls that had been purchased by the great Catherine and worn in turn by each Russian Empress.
The young wife of the Czar does not care in the least degree for dress; she wears a plain black cloth suit and a straw sailor hat most of the time, and only puts on a Paris frock when a State ceremony must be endured. She never allows an inch of lace to be used on her underwear, but she has a passion for jewels, and more especially for pearls.
When she was married, it is said that her one consolation in yielding to family persuasion was that she would have the finest jewels in the world, and the most noble string of pearls. With this string of pearls there belonged a pair of ear studs, but when the Romanoff jewels were given into the keeping of the young Empress the ear studs were missing. They were to be plainly seen glistening in the ears of her mother-in-law.
A Battle Royal For a Pair Of Pearl Earrings
For three weeks a struggle for the possession of the pearl studs was carried on. The Empress wished to have them, her mother-in-law wished to keep them. Records were searched, laws examined, precedents cited; the unfortunate Emperor was called upon to decide, and at last the Dowager yielded. The pearls were transferred from her ears to those of her daughter-in-law, and at that moment a covert, but none the less deadly, war was declared between them.
In securing the earrings the young Empress suddenly tasted the sweets of victory and the joys of power. Thereafter the daughter-in-law began to assume many hitherto neglected responsibilities and dignities, and now it is generally admitted that these two ladies pull in diametrically opposite directions and have agreed to disagree.
Their second big difference of opinion arose over the Grand Duchess Olga's morning bath. When the Grand Duchess was three weeks old, and the young mother was up and around, she decided to give her baby its morning bath. Her own mother had washed all the little princes and princesses of Hesse, so the Empress called for a tub, soap, towels and a big flannel apron, and, rolling up her sleeves, gave her little daughter a bath in good style. She then told the nurses that she would do the same every morning.
The Dowager Empress was shocked and disgusted. There was a commotion in the palace, traditions were cited, rules of etiquette discussed, but the young Empress went right on bathing and dressing the Grand Duchess, and the Emperor would not, or could not, say her nay.
Court Gossips Say The Czarina Opposed the War.
After this demonstration of her influence over her husband, the Empress began to take more interest in the affairs of State, and to encourage him to talk things over with her and listen to her advice. Now it is said in court circles that because the Dowager expressed her contempt of the Japanese and her belief that Russia would easily succeed in crushing them, the Empress most earnestly opposed the war.
She has not yet been able to exert the influence in State affairs that her mother-in-law still wields, nor has she been able to get a following in the palace. The officials, the men of the family and the chiefs of the army, who have known the Dowager many years, and who have a profound respect for her grasp of affairs, side with her to a man, while the Empress has only a following among the minor officers, the young men, and all the servants, who like her for her independence, her kind-heartedness, and her scarcely veiled contempt for those antique stumbling blocks in the way of comfort called rules of court etiquette.
The Empress Is Feared for Her Gift of Sarcasm.
But what the Dowager and her friends fear most is the quick and nipping sarcasm of her youthful rival. As a rule, the Czarina is a silent woman, and rarely confidential. She is reserved and melancholy, and she amuses herself chiefly by looking after her young daughter and reading English books. But when she is annoyed, her gray-blue eyes assume a steely glint, her thin lips are pressed together for a moment, and then she retorts in phrases that fly straight at their mark and have a sting.
The St. Paul Globe, published in St. Paul, Minnesota on May 15, 1904
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90059523/1904-05-15/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1894&sort=relevance&rows=20&words=Czarina&searchType=basic&sequence=0&index=18&state=&date2=1918&proxtext=Czarina&y=14&x=13&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=5
The article:
THE CZARINA'S OWN LITTLE WAR
THE Beautiful Woman Who Sits on Russia's Throne Suffers From Too Much Mother-in-Law and Declines to Submit
THE Czar's Mother and His Wife Fail to Agree on Many Points, and Their Differences Cannot Be Reconciled
THE Czarina has a little war of her own which has been raging for several years. She suffers from too much mother-in-law. That is what the St. Petersburg gossips said last autumn when the Empress retired to the country, officially to nurse a bad attack of earache. There was a general smiling and raising of eyebrows in court circles when the country visit was announced.
The Dowager Empress Is One of the Cleverest of Women.
"It is a plausible excuse, of course," said a Russian lady to an American woman, who was at that time visiting St. Petersburg, "but in spite of the almost sacred seclusion in which our royal family live and the admirable police protection they enjoy, rumor cannot be stifled. For some years we have all been aware that the Dowager Empress and her pale, proud, beautiful daughter-in-law are not as friendly as they might be.
"The trouble began as long ago as the first year of the Emperor's marriage, which was carried out wholly at the suggestion of his mother, who is one of the cleverest, most capable, managing and ambitious women in Europe. She is the true daughter of her enterprising mother, Queen Louise of Denmark. That lady was chiefly famous as the best butter-maker in Denmark and the best match-maker in the world. Queen Louise married her fourth daughter, Marie Dagmar, to the late Emperor of all the Russias, and never had an occasion to regret her choice of her son-in-law for her favorite child.
Her Beauty and Her Mental Strength Are Both Remarkable.
"The Princess Dagmar, at the time of her marriage, was considered quite as beautiful as her elder sister, who married King Edward. So fair was this Danish princess that when I saw her enter London, in the train of her sister Alexandra, I thought her far more beautiful than the latter. She was tall and slender, her skin was like milk and roses, and her face beamed with intelligence. Furthermore, her manners were the perfection of natural social grace, tact and good will, cultured by the most careful training."
The Russian woman went on to explain that Princess Dagmar was a great success in England. When a little while afterwards her betrothal to the heir of the Russian throne was announced, everybody said that she had a big opportunity and would make the most of it. And that is just what she did. She was baptized into the Russian Church as Marie Feodorovna, and speedily became a true Russian princess.
She set about captivating the heart of her husband and winning his confidence, and she evidently realized both of these ambitions. She also won the people and officials with ease. Every man who met her realized that she combined the brain of a true statesman with all the intuitive delicacy of a woman.
After her first two children were born she lost a great deal of her beauty, but she has retained her fine, slim figure and her clear colour, and when gorgeously dressed for a State function, as she loves to be, she is a dazzling and impressive personage. Her health is superb, and her industry irrepressible. She gets up with the lark, has a sponge bath in ice-cold water, breakfasts, exercises, and then gets to work.
How the Dowager Chose a Wife For Her Son Nicholas.
She loves work, and power and prestige are essential to her happiness. She had complete influence over her husband. He told her everything, took counsel with her before signing State papers or giving an important audience, and brought up his son Nicholas to reverence and obey her opinion as if it were Gospel.
When the question of selecting a wife for Nicholas came uppermost in the minds of the royal pair, it was the Empress who went wife-hunting for her son, and who decided that Princess Alix of Hesse, the niece of her sister, then Princess of Wales, would prove an ideal consort. She talked the matter over with her relatives, and Princess Alix was told of the good match in store for her.
This princess was beautiful, but very impecunious; no other royal gentleman had asked for her hand; and there was much surprise and disgust in her family when at first she declared that the future Czar was not to her liking.
But the Empress of Russia, while thoroughly angry, was none the less determined to have her way. It is said that once her mind is made up she never changes it. Anyway, the Princess Alix was wedded to the present Czar at the bedside of his dying father. The Empress Dagmar stood by and saw the business carried out, thereby consummating her greatest blunder.
She had supposed that her new daughter-in-law would be like clay in her hands, to be moulded as she chose, and that idea was strengthened by the girl's consent to the marriage. Naturally, the Dowager wished to have a non-entity for her son's wife, so that she might continue to wield her old power and influence. She had passed over other eligible princesses because she had thought they would prove to be dangerous rivals. But, for once in her life, she made a great mistake, which she has often had occasion to regret.
Princess Alix was pretty, even beautiful; she was young and she had not had a very elaborate education; but her mother-in-law did not realize that she possessed a mind of her own. She had had a romance in her teens, a hopeless love affair with a gallant German captain; she hated dress and elaborate etiquette and consequently she came into the formal Russian Court very sore at heart and much injured at having to change her religion.
From the beginning there were good grounds for her disgust with her matrimonial bargain; but gossip says her first contest with her mother-in-law arose over a pair of pearl earrings.
She did not mind at all when the Dowager Empress went on managing the housekeeping affairs of the palace, giving advice on official business to the young Emperor, and generally enjoying all the power and influence she had formerly possessed; but she did seriously object to the Dowager's use of a pair of magnificent pearls that had been purchased by the great Catherine and worn in turn by each Russian Empress.
The young wife of the Czar does not care in the least degree for dress; she wears a plain black cloth suit and a straw sailor hat most of the time, and only puts on a Paris frock when a State ceremony must be endured. She never allows an inch of lace to be used on her underwear, but she has a passion for jewels, and more especially for pearls.
When she was married, it is said that her one consolation in yielding to family persuasion was that she would have the finest jewels in the world, and the most noble string of pearls. With this string of pearls there belonged a pair of ear studs, but when the Romanoff jewels were given into the keeping of the young Empress the ear studs were missing. They were to be plainly seen glistening in the ears of her mother-in-law.
A Battle Royal For a Pair Of Pearl Earrings
For three weeks a struggle for the possession of the pearl studs was carried on. The Empress wished to have them, her mother-in-law wished to keep them. Records were searched, laws examined, precedents cited; the unfortunate Emperor was called upon to decide, and at last the Dowager yielded. The pearls were transferred from her ears to those of her daughter-in-law, and at that moment a covert, but none the less deadly, war was declared between them.
In securing the earrings the young Empress suddenly tasted the sweets of victory and the joys of power. Thereafter the daughter-in-law began to assume many hitherto neglected responsibilities and dignities, and now it is generally admitted that these two ladies pull in diametrically opposite directions and have agreed to disagree.
Their second big difference of opinion arose over the Grand Duchess Olga's morning bath. When the Grand Duchess was three weeks old, and the young mother was up and around, she decided to give her baby its morning bath. Her own mother had washed all the little princes and princesses of Hesse, so the Empress called for a tub, soap, towels and a big flannel apron, and, rolling up her sleeves, gave her little daughter a bath in good style. She then told the nurses that she would do the same every morning.
The Dowager Empress was shocked and disgusted. There was a commotion in the palace, traditions were cited, rules of etiquette discussed, but the young Empress went right on bathing and dressing the Grand Duchess, and the Emperor would not, or could not, say her nay.
Court Gossips Say The Czarina Opposed the War.
After this demonstration of her influence over her husband, the Empress began to take more interest in the affairs of State, and to encourage him to talk things over with her and listen to her advice. Now it is said in court circles that because the Dowager expressed her contempt of the Japanese and her belief that Russia would easily succeed in crushing them, the Empress most earnestly opposed the war.
She has not yet been able to exert the influence in State affairs that her mother-in-law still wields, nor has she been able to get a following in the palace. The officials, the men of the family and the chiefs of the army, who have known the Dowager many years, and who have a profound respect for her grasp of affairs, side with her to a man, while the Empress has only a following among the minor officers, the young men, and all the servants, who like her for her independence, her kind-heartedness, and her scarcely veiled contempt for those antique stumbling blocks in the way of comfort called rules of court etiquette.
The Empress Is Feared for Her Gift of Sarcasm.
But what the Dowager and her friends fear most is the quick and nipping sarcasm of her youthful rival. As a rule, the Czarina is a silent woman, and rarely confidential. She is reserved and melancholy, and she amuses herself chiefly by looking after her young daughter and reading English books. But when she is annoyed, her gray-blue eyes assume a steely glint, her thin lips are pressed together for a moment, and then she retorts in phrases that fly straight at their mark and have a sting.
Friday, March 13, 2020
Alexandra's holiday postcard letter to her cousin Prince George of Wales, year 1906/1907
Source:
The letter:
To dear Georgie, wishing you a merry Xmas & happy New Year,
fr.
Alix
1906-1907.
Above: Alexandra. Photo courtesy of TatianaZ on Flickr.
Above: George, Prince of Wales, later King George V.
Thursday, March 12, 2020
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Nicholas and Alix at Bagshot, June 1894
Portrait of Alexandra by Sokolov, 1890s
Source:
https://vk.com/club52196838?z=photo253244179_457239547%2Fwall-52196838_24107
This portrait of Alexandra was painted by A.P. Sokolov in the 1890s. Nicholas often took this portrait of his beloved wife with him on his travels, and it is currently kept in the State Archive of the Russian Federation.
https://vk.com/club52196838?z=photo253244179_457239547%2Fwall-52196838_24107
This portrait of Alexandra was painted by A.P. Sokolov in the 1890s. Nicholas often took this portrait of his beloved wife with him on his travels, and it is currently kept in the State Archive of the Russian Federation.
Alexandra and Tatiana at Livadia Palace, then and now
Source:
Photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK
https://vk.com/lastromanovs?w=wall-56510987_43620
This photo of Alexandra with Tatiana in her boudoir was taken at Livadia Palace in 1913; the same spot in 2019.
(photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK)
Photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK
https://vk.com/lastromanovs?w=wall-56510987_43620
This photo of Alexandra with Tatiana in her boudoir was taken at Livadia Palace in 1913; the same spot in 2019.
(photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK)
Alexandra with officers in front of fountain at Massandra Palace, then and now
Source:
Photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK
https://vk.com/lastromanovs?w=wall-56510987_44328
This photo of Alexandra with officers Sablin and Voronov in front of this fountain was taken at Massandra Palace in 1912; the same location in 2019.
(photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK)
Photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK
https://vk.com/lastromanovs?w=wall-56510987_44328
This photo of Alexandra with officers Sablin and Voronov in front of this fountain was taken at Massandra Palace in 1912; the same location in 2019.
(photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK)
Alexandra with Olga and Tatiana in garden at Massandra Palace, then and now
Source:
Photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK
https://vk.com/lastromanovs?w=wall-56510987_44524
This photo of Alexandra with Olga and Tatiana was taken in the garden at Massandra Palace in 1909; the same spot 110 years later in 2019.
(photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK)
Photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK
https://vk.com/lastromanovs?w=wall-56510987_44524
This photo of Alexandra with Olga and Tatiana was taken in the garden at Massandra Palace in 1909; the same spot 110 years later in 2019.
(photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK)
Alexandra and Tatiana in garden at Massandra Palace, then and now
Source:
Photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK
https://vk.com/lastromanovs?w=wall-56510987_44556
This photo of Alexandra with Tatiana was taken in the garden at Massandra Palace in 1909; the same spot in 2019.
(photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK)
Photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK
https://vk.com/lastromanovs?w=wall-56510987_44556
This photo of Alexandra with Tatiana was taken in the garden at Massandra Palace in 1909; the same spot in 2019.
(photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK)
Alexandra in the garden at Massandra Palace, then and now
Source:
Photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK
https://vk.com/lastromanovs?w=wall-56510987_45263
This photo of Alexandra in the garden at Massandra Palace was taken in 1909; the same spot 110 years later in 2019.
(photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK)
Photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK
https://vk.com/lastromanovs?w=wall-56510987_45263
This photo of Alexandra in the garden at Massandra Palace was taken in 1909; the same spot 110 years later in 2019.
(photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK)
Alexandra and Olga at the rotunda at Oreanda, then and now
Source:
Photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK
https://vk.com/lastromanovs?w=wall-56510987_46797
This photo of Alexandra with Olga was taken at the rotunda at Oreanda in spring 1914; the same spot in 2019.
(photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK)
Photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK
https://vk.com/lastromanovs?w=wall-56510987_46797
This photo of Alexandra with Olga was taken at the rotunda at Oreanda in spring 1914; the same spot in 2019.
(photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK)
Alexandra and company at Eriklik, then and now
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Photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK
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This photo of Alexandra with Nicholas, Tatiana, Alexander Mikhailovich and others was taken at Eriklik on May 28, 1914; the same area in 2019.
(photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK)
Photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK
https://vk.com/lastromanovs?w=wall-56510987_46844
This photo of Alexandra with Nicholas, Tatiana, Alexander Mikhailovich and others was taken at Eriklik on May 28, 1914; the same area in 2019.
(photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK)
Alexandra and Alexei on balcony at Livadia, then and now
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Photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK
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This photo of Alexandra with Alexei on a balcony at Livadia Palace was taken in autumn 1911; the spot is much the same in 2019.
(photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK)
Photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK
https://vk.com/lastromanovs?w=wall-56510987_47037
This photo of Alexandra with Alexei on a balcony at Livadia Palace was taken in autumn 1911; the spot is much the same in 2019.
(photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK)
Nicholas and Alexandra with Catherine Schneider at Ai-Petri, then and now
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Photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK
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These photos of Alexandra with Nicholas and her lady-in-waiting Catherine Schneider were taken on the viewing platform at Ai-Petri in autumn 1909; the same beautiful view 110 years later in 2019.
(photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK)
Photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK
https://vk.com/lastromanovs?w=wall-56510987_47063
These photos of Alexandra with Nicholas and her lady-in-waiting Catherine Schneider were taken on the viewing platform at Ai-Petri in autumn 1909; the same beautiful view 110 years later in 2019.
(photos courtesy of Ilya Grigoryev at lastromanovs on VK)
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