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Frogs

Photographer: Nicholas Hess

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North American Ocelot | Nicholas Hess

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Last words of The Romanovs

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

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Nicholas II with his wife Alexandra and two eldest daughters.

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Alix cooking during a hunting in Poland; 1900's.

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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

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Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra dress as Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and his first wife Tsaritsa Maria Miloslavskaya for the 1903 costume ball.

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Famous Books OTMA Read (or at least owned)

The Wide Wide World by Elizabeth Wetherell. Olga wrote in pencil in Russian on the endpaper, “Olga from Grandmother, for Xmas, 1908.”

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Written on the half-title page, “Tatiana Nicolaivna, from her loving Nana, M. Edgar.”

La Fontaine’s Fables, with pictures by C. M. Park and Rene Bull. On the flyleaf of the first volume, “To dear Tatiana, Xmas, 1904, from Aunty Irene.”

The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge. Written in pencil, “For darling Tatiana fr. Papa & Mama G. C. Jan. 12, 1910.”

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Written in pencil on the flyleaf, “To Marie Nicholaievna, with fond love from her old Nana, M. Edgar.”

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. With an inscription by Maria.

Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput and Brobdingnag. Adapted by John Lang for children. “For Darling Marie from her loving Aunt Irene, for Xmas, 1908.”

The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley. “For Darling Anastasie from her loving Aunt and Godmama Irene, for Xmas, 1908.”

Source: Important Collection of Manuscripts, First Editions, and Illustrated Books of the XVIII and XIX Century: Fine Bindings from the Libraries of the Tzars of Russia

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July 17th 2024, 106 years since the Romanov Family, The Last Imperial Family of Russia, was executed in Yekaterinburg, 1918

"I then went to the lower storey, the greater part of which was a basement. I entered with intense emotion the room in which, perhaps, they had died. Its aspect was most sinister. Daylight came in through a window with iron bars across it. The walls and the floor bore marks of bullets and bayonet thrusts. It was quite obvious that a dreadful crime had been committed there, and that several people had been killed. In my despair believed that the Emperor had perished, and, that being the case, I could not believe the Empress had survived him… Yes, it was quite possible that they had both been killed. And the children? Had they also been massacred? I could not believe it. The idea was too horrible. And yet everything seemed to prove that the victims had been numerous." - Pierre Gilliard (French tutor to the Imperial Children)

Voice: Lord Louis Mountbatten (in a documentary)

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“At 7 in the morning, the first signs of premature birth occurred.

At 8 o'clock the distinguished young woman [Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna] took Holy Communion according to the rite of the Greek Church. Her confessor had demanded to see her, and so the Grand Duchess' desire for the ordinance was brought about in a natural way. According to the custom of the Greek religion, the sick woman asked not only her parents present but also her husband's forgiveness for any slights. This was so touching for the young gentleman, who was not used to this ecclesiastical form, that he knelt by the bed and also asked for forgiveness for any worries that he had caused her during the short time of their marriage.

An hour later she gave birth almost painlessly and unusually easily to a boy who screamed loudly and audibly, although he was only 25 weeks old. I went with the child and all members of the august family, except her father and mother, into the next room, where I wrapped him in warm cotton wool to await the baptism. All the members gradually approached the basket to see their sister's child . The prince [Friedrich Wilhelm of Hesse-Kassel] also approached and seemed deeply touched with fatherly joy, which dwindled with each passing moment.”

A Protestant priest had been sent to perform the baptism. However, when he had not arrived after three quarters of an hour, and the weak spark of life threatened to go out at any moment, the fear arose in the entire circle of those present that the child might die without the sacrament of baptism. Someone, I think it was the Duke of Leuchtenberg, had opened the door of the sick room and saw the emperor kneeling beside the bed. No one dared to disturb this moment, and yet danger was imminent.

I handed over the care of the young prince to a very capable chambermaid, entered the mother's room and actually saw the emperor [Nicholas I] at her bedside, holding both of her hands in his in a half-kneeling position.

To get his attention I made a small noise, but he would not look up, and I was forced to wave. He immediately got up, came toward me, led me to the doorway and asked,

“What do you want?”

“The child is in danger of dying any minute; the clergyman has not come. Does Your Majesty wish to baptize your grandson yourself, lest he die without the ordinance?”

“Yes, yes. Certainly.”

The emperor immediately went into the next room and entered the circle of his family surrounding the basket with the child. When the bowl of water was given to him as ordered, he performed the baptism with a dignity and emotion that made the deepest impression on me. Everyone knelt around the great emperor, who was baptizing his youngest grandchild. Then, without another word, he left the room and returned to his daughter’s bedside.

After a good half hour the summoned clergyman finally appeared in full regalia, decorated with several medals. The child was barely alive; but he performed the baptism according to the regulations of the Protestant church.

Of these two baptisms, that of the grandfather of his grandson was certainly recorded in heaven.”

— Imperial physician Dr. Martin von Mandt on the premature birth of Prince Wilhelm of Hesse-Kassel, the short-lived son of Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia.”

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Emerald Green Boa

Snakes

Nicholas Hess

Amazon Tree Boa

Aquatic Coral Snake

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duffy's historical figures smash cake

sorry not sorry

I didn't feel like downloading picsart so I did it in capcut

(from top left to bottom right)

Goebbels

Hitler

Mengele

Magda Goebbels

Tsarina Alexandria

Goering

Heydrich

Hess

Tsar Nicholas II

Eva Braun

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Ludwig IV and Tatiana Nikolaevna: Grandfather and Granddaughter. They never met, as he passed before she was born. She resembles him a lot in my opinion 🤍

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Alexandra Feodorovna's christmas prayer

Alix's handwrited prayer in 1917 at Tobolsk to her childrens tutor.

I pray that Christ the Xmax King may stoop to bless, and guide you day to day holiness, Your friend in joy, Your comfort in distress, I pray that every cloud may lead you to the light, and He may raise you up from height to height, Himsef the Day-Star of your darkest night; I pray that the Christ before whose Crib you bend the knee, may fill your longing soul abundantly, with grace to follow him möre perfectly. 1917 Tobolsk - Alexandra

Nicky, Alix and Ella

Alexandra's icon and Alexandra with her oldest daughter Olga.

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Wedding of Cecilie of Greece and Georg Donatus of Hesse.