#alexandra Feodorovna

[otmaaromanovas]

A French writer recalls meeting the Romanov sisters

During WWI, French journalist and writer Amélie de Néry, who went by the pen name Marylie Markovitch, was invited to have a private audience with Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. During this meeting, she was introduced to the four Grand Duchesses by the Tsarina.

In January 1916, her recollections were condensed and published in multiple newspapers throughout America and Europe. She wrote:

With a charming smile she took my hand and told me she was very happy to receive a representative of the women of France, who, like their sisters in Russia, had so bravely borne their burden of anxiety during this cruel war. 'Let me introduce you to my daughters,' she said as soon as I thanked her for granting me an audience. 'This is Tatiana.' Grand Duchess Tatiana also shook hands with me and said she was very much interested in meeting a woman journalist for the first time. She is a beautiful girl, with big blue eyes, full of life, illuminating her fair, young face. At this moment the door opened and a young girl, also in the garb of a sister of mercy, entered the room. 'And here is Olga, my little French daughter' said the czarina. Grand duchess Olga is no less beautiful and charming than her younger sister, but she is more calm and there is something of the serenity of the mystic about her. As the czarina referred to her stay in Paris, it seemed to me as if a dreamy expression came into the daughter's dark soulful eyes. ‘Colonel de Vitchkowsky will introduce you to my two other daughters,' said the czarina, as she parted from me to take up her duties in the operating room; and once more I felt the firm grip of her hand. The two little grand duchesses, Marie and Anastasia, were in the convalescent ward. I found that both, wearing plain white dresses and red hats, standing close to an officer who, seated on the window sill, was playing the balalaika. They both shook hands with me and the music went on.

📍SOURCES: Amélie de Néry; LA Raconteuce, ‘Find Writer Finds Czarina Hard At Work’, El Paso Herald newspaper, 6 January 1916. Her full recollections can be found in Amélie de Néry, ‘L’Imperatrice en Voile Blanc’ in Revue Des Deux Mondes, (1916), p. 566

📍PHOTOS: Photograph albums of the Grand Duchesses, public domain; Photographs of Amélie de Néry: Portrait de Mme Marlie [sic] Markovitch, Femina publication, 122, February 1906, p. 75, public domain

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ Heinrich von Angeli, Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina of Russia (1896/1897)

via wikimedia commons

[romanovsonelastdance]

Alexandra Feodorovna with her daughters, 1913.

Another example of "old timey Photoshop." All the other postcard versions of this image are landscape; for some reason this one was published in portrait orientation. That meant they had to draw in the rest of Alix and Maria's skirts as well as the chair. They didn't . . . they didn't do great. The draping on Alix's especially looks very stiff and unnatural, being so straight. You can also see editing above Olga, Tatiana and Anastasia's heads where they had to fill in background that wasn't there.

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

Royal Mothers + Piggybacks 🤍

[maurineromanovs]

Costume Ball of winter palace 1903 Romanovs

[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

[peaceinthestorm]

Laurits Tuxen (1853-1927, Danish) ~ The Marriage of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia, 26th November 1894, c. 1895-96

[Source: rct.uk]

[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

[thehessiansisters]

Portraits of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna wearing uniform of the chief of the 5th Hussar Alexandria regiment, Tsarkoye Selo, 1911.

[worldoftheromanovs]

Alexandra Feodorovna with her sister Irene of Prussia onboard the Standart, August 1909

[thestarik]

Nicholas, Alexandra and Anastasia on the Polar Star.

[otmaaromanovas]

Another brand new photograph has been discovered

The photo shows Alexandra Feodorovna, Tatiana Nikolaevna, Anastasia Nikolaevna, and officers. Tatiana is sunbathing, a particular favourite pastime of the girls.

No information on the album it is from yet, but it looks like it was taken in Mogilev, likely 1916, in my view.

As always, it was discovered by the wonderful Ilia, lastromanovs on flickr. Спасибо, Илия!

[kootyl]

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and Tsar Nicholas II with her daughters - Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia Romanov and her son Tsarevich Alexei Romanov. Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov is being politely greeted. April 1912.

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Nicholas II with his wife Alexandra and two eldest daughters.

[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

[maurineromanovs]

Romanovs lookalikes