#Nicholas ii

[roses-of-the-romanovs]

The foreheads are also very different. It's simply the beard. I could easily see how a stranger could see the mustache and beard and think it is one when it is actually the other.

Hot take: If Nicholas II and George V didn't have similar beards, no one would think they look alike. Their eyes are very different; if you could see their whole faces, I don't think people would see much of a resemblance.

[graceofromanovs]

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia with three of his daughters Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana and Maria, 1912.

Source @teatimeatwinterpalace (gifs), Royalty In Colour (colorisation).

[maurineromanovs]

Costume Ball of winter palace 1903 Romanovs

[ella-indigo]

Finally, in big size: Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia with their brother, baby Tsarevich Alexei, in 1904.

This is one of my favourite OTMAA pictures.

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

@princesscatherinemiddleton’s Royal Fandom Summer 2024 Photo Challenge

Day 27: Favourite summer-themed photos of royals at Balmoral Castle

This is a series of footage clips containing several members of the British Royal Family including Queen Victoria, Prince Arthur of Connaught and his children, Princess Helena Duchess of Albany and her children, and also Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. This is sole of the first footage taken of most of these royals (except the Russian couple whose 1894 coronation was filmed) and is a perfect example of how the BRF vacationed at Balmoral (the location of the footage).

Source: National Library of Scotland

[imperial-russia]

Royal cousins Nicholas II. and George V. with their Heirs, 1909

[otmaaromanovas]

New photographs of the last Romanov family (scroll to see them all!)

Some of the photographs were previously only available for viewing in very low resolution - see these photos for before vs after to show the difference!

The photos mostly originate from the meetings of the Romanov family with their Hessian relatives: the Tsarina’s brother Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig, his wife Grand Duchess Eleonore, and their children, Georg Donatus and Ludwig. Photographs include the family on the Standart yacht, in the Livadia Palace dining hall, and at events greeting the public, from around 1910 to 1912.

Sources and photos: 

📍Ольга, @om871218 (Pinterest), [accessed November 2024]

📍Darmstadt (Hesse), Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt

— I have cropped the photos so just the images are shown, and no background walls/screens 

[the-last-tsar]

[roses-of-the-romanovs]

It has now been 106 years since the Romanov murders.

"And death came, but death refused to separate those whom life had so closely bound together, and it took them all seven, united in one faith and one love. ...

" ... it is impossible that those of whom I have spoken should have suffered their martyrdom in vain. I know not when it will be, nor how; but one day or other, without any doubt, when brutality has bled itself to death in the excess of its fury, humanity will draw from the memory of their sufferings an invincible force for moral reparation.

"Whatever revolt may rankle in the heart, and however just vengeance may be, to hope for an expiation in blood would be an insult to their memory.

"The Czar and Czarina died believing themselves martyrs to their country: they have died martyrs to humanity. Their real greatness is not to be measured by the prestige of their Imperial dignity, but by the wonderful moral heights to which they gradually attained. They have become a force, an ideal; and in the very outrage they have suffered we find a touching testimony to that wonderful serenity of soul against which violence and passion can avail nothing and which triumphs unto death."

–Pierre Gilliard, Thirteen Years at the Russian Court

[kootyl]

Tsar Nicholas II with his daughter Grand Duchess Tatiana Romanov in Darmstadt Germany in 1910.

[teatimeatwinterpalace]

Tsar Nicholas II and his son Tsesarevich Alexei Nikolaevich at a military parade, Tsarskoye Selo, 1913.

[romanovsonelastdance]

Nicholas II with his wife Alexandra and two eldest daughters.

[graceofromanovs]

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia speaking to officials outside Feodorovsky Imperial Cathedral, 1912.

The Feodorovsly Imperial Cathedral, located in Tsarskoye Selo at Saint Petersburg, a short walk from the Alexander Palace, served as the Tsar and Tsarina’s house church for the Imperial family, while they were in residence in the Alexander Palace.

Source (gif) @teatimeatwinterpalace

Colourised by Royalty In Colour

[maurineromanovs]

Romanovs lookalikes

[wildfieldz]

The more elevated a person is, the sooner that person should help everyone and never in fellowship remind everyone of their position. My children should be like that.

Nicholas II

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

New photos of The Romanov Family, Mogilev, Summer 1916

Kindly shared by Ilya aka LastRomanovs on Flickr and Sledstvie on Instagram!