#maria nikolaevna

[thatmarygirl93]

Do not come for my girls 💐

“Four royal roses,

You passed through the gates of paradise.”

- Vladimir Petrushevsky, 1923.

[thestarik]

Olga, Tatiana and Maria at Peterhof.

[roses-of-the-romanovs]

The Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna in 1911. Doesn’t she remind you of the Little Mermaid?

[imperial-russia]

The Imperial Family in the Livadia Palace by Daria Buravtseva

"In my work ... I set the task of showing a long-gone era, and people whose fate personifies the tragedy of the Russian Empire. One day I was traveling the Crimea and visiting palaces, wandering through museum halls filled with Crimean air and scorching sun. At that moment, a long-gone era appeared before me as if it were yesterday.

I wanted to show the Romanovs not as the royal seven, but as living happy people. I had a desire to show that history is multifaceted and consists not only of tragic moments but is also full of happy moments in the lives of historical figures."

[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).

[romanovsonelastdance]

OTMA 1910: the common shots and the less common shots.

[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 

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

The Photo vs Behind the Scenes

Photo 1: Grand Duchesses Maria and Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia with Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia, pushing maternal first cousin Prince Georg Donatus of Hesse and By Rhine in a cart, Wolfsgarten 1910

Photo 2: the same people on the left along a nanny or governess, maybe Prince Heinrich of Prussia standing on the stairs, and Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia playing with Prince Ludwig of Hesse and By Rhine, Wolfsgarten 1910

[la-belle-histoire]

Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Christina Robertson. 1841.

[krasivaa]

Grand Duchesses Maria Nikolaevna, Anastasia Nikolaevna and Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia in 1913.

[alexandrafeodorovna]

Portraits of Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna and Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Nikolaevna by Friedrich August von Kaulbach, 1903.

[worldoftheromanovs]

Anastasia Nikolaevna, Maria Nikolaevna and Tatiana Nikolaevna in Mogilev, August 24th 1916

From Anastasia’s 1915-1916 Album

[allthingsromanov]

Grand Duchess Olga in Tsarskoye Selo, 1909

[roses-of-the-romanovs]

Nicholas II (1873) and his daughter Maria (1915), with the same expressions on their faces.

[imperial-russia]

A rather unusual, but moving modern icon of the Imperial passion-bearers

[bayernivs]

Romanovs lookalikes