#grand duchess Maria NIkolaevna

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“Four royal roses,

You passed through the gates of paradise.”

- Vladimir Petrushevsky, 1923.

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Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia of Russia, 1914.

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❧ ♔ ~ Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia & Princess Margaretha of Sweden’s corespondence ~ ♔ ☙

❧ “Dear Marie, Thank you very much for your card. How are you all? We are all well. On the card you see our country house. Much love from your loving Margaretha. Please write soon.” - Margaretha to Maria, Feb 24th 1914

❧ “Dear Marie, I wish you a very happy Xmas and new year from your loving cousin Margaretha” - Margaretha to Maria, Jan 1st 1915

❧ “Darling Marie, Thank you so very much for your card! Here is a new foto of my brother. Much love fr. your loving cousin. Margaretha. PS Write very soon!!!” - Margaretha to Maria, March 14th 1914

❧ “Dear Marie, I thank you so very much for your kind letter. Now we are here in the country and have a lovely time. Where are you? I have put up my hair too and you did it so much earlier. Much love to you all from us. Many kisses from your loving cousin Margaretha. Please write soon.” - Margaretha to Maria, June 4th 1915

❧ “Darling Marie, I hope you all are well. You must have a very nice time in Livadia and I quite understand you are sorry to leave it. Do write a card I would be very glad. 1000 kisses from your loving cousin Margaretha.” Margaretha to Maria, undated

Source: Diaries and Letters of Maria Nikolaevna Romanova by Helen Azar

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Grand Duchesses Maria and Anastasia Nikolaevna, 1914

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"In Peterhoff during the hot June weather the little Grand Duchess Marie was born. She was born good, | often think, with the very smallest trace of original sin possible. The Grand Duke Vladimir called her “The Amiable Baby” for she was always so good and smiling and gay. She is a very fine and pretty child, with great, dark-blue eyes and the fine level dark brows of the Romanoff family. Lately speaking of the child, a gentleman said that she had the face of one of Botticelli’s angels. But good and sweet-tempered as she is, she is also very human, as the following stories will show. When she was a very little child, she was one day with her sister in the Empress’s boudoir, where the Emperor and Empress were at tea. The Empress had tiny vanilla-flavoured wafers called biblichen, of which the children were particularly fond, but they were not allowed to ask for anything from the tea table. The Empress sent for me, and when | went down little Marie was standing in the middle of the room, her eyes drowned in tears and something was swallowed hastily. “There! I’ve eaten it all up,” said she, “you can’t get it now.” | was properly shocked, and suggested bed at once as a suitable punishment. The Empress said, “Very well, take her,” but the Emperor intervened, and begged that she might be allowed to remain, saying, | was always afraid of the wings growing, and I am glad to see she is only a human child.” She was constantly held up as an example to her elder sisters. They declared she was a step-sister. Vainly I pointed out that in all fairy tales it was the elder sisters who were step-sisters and the third was the real sister. They would not listen, and shut her out from all their plays. I told them that they could not expect her to stand that kind of treatment, and that someday they would be punished. One day they made a house with chairs at one end of the nursery and shut out poor Marie, telling her she might be the footman, but that she should stay outside. | made another house at the other end for baby, then a few months old, and her, but her eyes always kept travelling to the other end of the room and the attractive play going on there. She suddenly dashed across the room, rushed into the house, dealt each sister a slap in the face, and ran into the next room, coming back dressed in a doll’s cloak and hat, and with her hands full of small toys. “I won’t be a footman, I’ll be the kind, good aunt, who brings presents,” she said. She then distributed her gifts, kissed her “nieces,” and sat down. The other children looked shamefacedly from one to the other, and then Tatiana said, “We were too cruel to poor little Marie, and she really couldn’t help beating us.” They had learned their lesson-from that hour they respected her rights in the family".

Margaret Eager "Six years at the Russian court"

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Rare photo of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna

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‘You kindly asked after the children & I enclose their last photos to give you an idea what they look like. Thank God Alexei has been keeping in much better health & has grown very much. He will be 10 this summer. I think you would love him […] He has such a tender heart - & bears pains so patiently - is very merry & clever’.

Photographs enclosed with a letter sent by Empress Alexandra to her aunt Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, 17/30 May 1914. (x)

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Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia working on an art piece, Livadia 1912

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Let us take a moment to remember our Tsar Martyr Nicholas II who 106 years ago, on the night of July 16-17, was murdered along with his immediate family and four of their faithful retinue in a dismal basement in Yekaterinburg.

May you rest in peace, Tsar Nicholas, and your beloved wife and beautiful children. The burdens you had to bear were too heavy for an earthly crown, but now you have a heavenly kingdom to inherit.

Forgive them father for they know not what they do.

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Grand Duchesses Olga and Maria playing with officers 1913

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Grand Duchesses Maria and Anastasia Nicholaevna of Russia with Princesses Margarita and Theodora of Greece and Denmark in 1908

The girls were first cousins once removed. Margarita and Theodora were elder sisters of the future Phillip, Duke of Edinburg, visiting Russia for the wedding of Maria Pavlovna.

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Grand Duchesses Olga and Maria Nikolaevna of Russia 🤍

“Marie darling!..Well, good night, I kiss you and pat you on your chubby, appetising cheeks. Your sister, O Romanova” 31st October/13th November 1914

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Maria Nikolaevna Romanova of Russia

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Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna at the Lower Dacha in Peterhof, 1908.

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Queen Alexandra with her grand-niece Maria on board the imperial yatch Standart, 1908.