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tsarevich alexei sits on the edge of a drained fountain at massandra

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Anastasia by ~EnvytheOne

This is simply amazing.

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Tsar Nicholas II with royal friend 

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Nicholas playing with Alexei.

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Alexandra

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The baby lay on a pillow of cloth of gold, slung to the Princess’s shoulders by a broad gold band. He was covered with the heavy cloth-of-gold mantle, lined with ermine, worn by the heir to the crown. The mantle was supported on one side by Prince Alexander Sergeiovich Dolgorouky, the Grand Marshal of the Court, and on the other by Count [Paul] Benckendorff, as decreed by custom and wise precaution. The baby wept loudly, as might any ordinary baby, when old Father Yanishev dipped him in the font. His four small sisters, in short Court dresses, gazed open-eyed at the ceremony, Olga Nicholaevna, then nine years old, being in the important position of one of the godmothers. According to Russian custom, the Emperor and Empress were not present at the baptism, but directly after the ceremony the Emperor went to the church. Both he and the Empress always confessed to feeling very nervous on these occasions, for fear that the Princess might slip, or that Father Yanishev, who was very old, might drop the baby in the font.

Countess Sophie Buxhoeveden recalling Alexei’s christening (via relishinrussia)

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Grand Duchess Anastasia sits with her mother, Alexandra, and sister Olga in her mother’s sitting room. Russia, c. 1916.

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The Big Pair (Olga and Tatiana) having a picnic outside, around 1912

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Tatiana in 1904 (aged 7) and 1914 (aged 17)

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# Maria and Anastasia with their mother, Alexandra.

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# Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov with sailors.

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http://naotmaa.tumblr.com/post/19118693282/irenesroyalphotoblog-olga-and-tatiana-this

See the writing here ;D

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# Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, Tsarevich Alexei, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna and sailors. 

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# Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Alexei

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Alexandra and Tatiana

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# Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov