#nikolay pavlovich

[plutorine]

today's Бесы | Demons (2014) doodles

[furbs-and-prayers]

hitting demons with the will wood beam. it is so over for me

[omerseyfofan]

shatovrogin as kids omgeeeee

[thestarik]

Tatiana and Olga with N. P. Sablin. Anna Vyrubova and N. V. Sablin on the left. Standart, 1907.

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

Grand Duchess Anastasia “Shvybzik” Nikolaevna funnily being pushed off of a chair while her elder sister Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna watches on, Finland 1909-1910 🤍🤣✨

People in the background for whom I can identify: Anna Vyrubova, Nikolai Pavlovich Sablin, Pavel Voronov

[possessedbydevils]

Back on the grind to make content for a ship 3 people care about

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

~ ❦ Happy 129th Birthday to Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia! Born: November 16th 1895 ~

~ To celebrate her birthday here is an edit (made by me using CapCut Pro) and some of my favorite quotes said by her ♡

❦ “Sleep well and have a good dream, i.e. Nik[olai]. Dm. [Demenkov - Maria's crush] (idiot)…Well, good night, I kiss you and pat you on your chubby, appetising cheeks.” - O to M, 13th Nov. 1914

❦ "I am sitting in Mr. Gilliard's rooms near the door of his water-closet where Trina's little nasty girl Katya is sitting locked in by Anastasia and myself. We've just drawn her along the dark passage and pushed her in." O to Nicholas, 9 Oct. 1915

❦ “… Austria declared war on us. Bastards” - O’s diary, 24 July 1914

❦ “…Regards to Nikolai Pavlovich. Tell him that he is because he did not even write once…” - O to Nicholas, 21 June 1915

❦ “Olga Nikolaevna threw all her things around from delight, and threw a pillow up on a top shelf. She felt feverish and she jumped around: “‘Can someone have a stroke at 20 years old? I think I am having a stroke!’” Memoirs of Valentina Ivanovna Chebotareva

❦ “…all (was/ as usual, a lot of running around, but I love it. Makes me feel like I am accomplishing something…” O’s diary, 11 Sept. 1916

❦ “Father asks to have it passed on to all who have remained loyal to him and to those on whom they might have influence, that they not avenge him; he has forgiven and prays for everyone; and not to avenge themselves, but to remember that the evil which is now in the world will become yet more powerful, and that it is not evil that conquers evil, but only love.” - Olga basically writing NAOTMAA’s last will and testament 1918

✧.* ♡ *.✧

[amicus-noctis]

“I was not born to amuse the Tsars.” ― Alexander Pushkin

Painting: "Russian poet Alexander Pushkin and his wife Natalia Gontcharova at the Anichkof Palace Ball." by Nikolai Pavlovich Ulyanov

[romanovsonelastdance]

Hey I wonder, how many branches are there in the Romanov family, anyway?

It depends on how you want to divide them up!

Most historians tend to do it by the sons of Nicholas I, so we end up with: The Alexandrovichi - Alexander II and his descendants. This group is sometimes subdivided by Alexander II's sons, so we have the continuation of the Alexandrovichi with Alexander III, and then the Vladimirovichi (descendants of Vladimir Alexandrovich) and Pavlovich (descendants of Pavel Alexandrovich). I don't tend to label things as 'alexandrovichi' because they're the main line of the Imperial Family.

The Konstantinovichi - Descendants of Konstantin Nikolaevich. This can include the Greek Royal Family as their founding matriarch was Konstantin's daughter, Olga Konstantinovna. But usually people think of the poet Konstantin Konstantinovich (KR) and his many children.

The Nikolaevichi - descendants of Nikolai Nikolaevich Sr. He only had two children, Nikolai Nikolaevich Jr (Nikolasha) and Peter Nikolaevich, and of the two, only Peter had children of his own, so it's a small branch.

The Mikhailovichi - the descendants of Mikhail Nikolaevich. This includes Sandro, the husband of Nicholas II's sister Xenia, so her kids are technically part of the Mikhailovichi branch but you could argue they are Alexandrovichi through their mother. Also OTMAA's playmates Nina and Xenia Georgievna are in this branch.

Another major branch are the Leuchtenbergs, who are the descendants of Nicholas I's daughter Maria and her husband Maximilian of Leuchtenberg. They lived in Russia, were granted the style of Imperial Highness, and while their title was Prince/ss Romanovsky, they were essentially treated like Grand Dukes/Duchesses.

[loiladadiani]

"In St. Petersburg we work, but at Livadia, we live."

Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna

In 1909, Nikolay Krasnov, who was responsible for the Yousupoff Palace in Koreiz, was engaged to design a new imperial palace in Livadia (before that, there had been an imperial residence in Livadia consisting of a large and a small palace used by Alexander II and later by Alexander III, who died at the smaller residence.) When Nicholas II decided to build the new palace, he also demolished the older residence but left the small palace where his father died.

The Tsar's diary indicates that the Imperial Family discussed the design; it was decided that all four façades of the palace should look different. After 17 months of construction, the new palace was inaugurated on 11 September 1911. In November, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna celebrated her 16th birthday at Livadia.

The family was always the happiest at Livadia.

One of the Tsar's "motors" at Livadia. If you look carefully, you can see the "side of the palace" where the car is parked and the main entrance in both the contemporary colored and black and white photos.

Above is the beautiful Italian Courtyard of the palace as it stands today. If you look at pictures taken when the Romanovs used the palace, the centerpiece of the courtyard was different. Today, there is a fountain at the center. Examining the older pictures (below), you can see that there seemed to be what I can only describe as a "well" at the center of the courtyard. There was a column on each side of the well. In one of the photos below, you can see Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich; he had his own rooms at the Livadia Palace.

Nicholas II and his family were so at ease at Livadia that they also conducted some minor official functions in addition to family activities. When the family went to Livadia, they usually went as far as Yalta by sea; it is easy to infer that the official activities they conducted were related to the crew of the Standart. In addition, at the time, it was believed that mountain air and rest could cure tuberculosis, and there were several spas and sanatoria in the mountains in the area. The Empress and the girls visited the sick there (they also participated in other charitable activities.)

The Yousupov family gifted the beautiful door above to Nicholas and Alexandra. The painting next to it is from a beautiful book by Kravnov ("Fiftieth Anniversary of Yalta"), who worked on the palace's design (and on that of the Crimean summer residences of several Grand Dukes.) The window is also featured in the painting.

The "solarium" seems to have been a very popular area. Nicholas and his children preferred the outdoors, and Livadia seemed to provide the Empress with the perfect environment to get sun and fresh air in comfort regardless of her many ailments.

This is the "Moorish" courtyard of the palace. It is small, but notice the exquisite tilework on the walls. And, of course, the little balcony between the windows seemed perfect to Alexis for him to "address" his family.

The palace had a chapel so that the Romanov family could worship in privacy.

A few of the interiors of the palace. The chandelier is Murano Glass (amazing that it survived all these years.) Olga's coming-of-age celebration took place in Livadia in the formal dining room in the photograph above, dancing spilling into the flower-perfumed courtyard. That is a luxury of the type you cannot buy! The girls' rooms are currently being restored. There are pictures of the rooms as they were, but I was not sure they were from Livadia, so I did not include them.

Finally, some photos of the "Tsar's Path" (or Sunny Path), which exists to this day (it goes from Livadia Park to the city of Gaspra.) The family loved to walk this path (regardless of its name, it is not sunny but pleasantly breezy). This path is on one level so that anybody can walk it, regardless of their cardiovascular status. I have read two stories about how it "emerged," and as usual, the truth is probably in the middle. First story: The new Livadia Palace did not exist yet, but the Romanovs used the old palace and always loved coming to Livadia. Alexander III kept gaining weight, and his doctor recommended that he walk but not overdo it...so Alexander had the path leveled. The path's beginning and end differed from what they would be later. Second Story: Sandro had the path from Ay Todor toward Livadia built because Nicholas and Sandro's families always visited each other (they started calling it the Prince's Path.) Nicholas loved the idea and extended the path.

Today, the main path remains, and other routes to other small towns can be hiked from it. Many of the same benches and sculptures are where they were at the time of the Romanovs.

Just one last photo. Here, you can see how close the palace is to the mountains and the sea. A beautiful big house full of fresh air and light with flowers perfuming the air. No wonder Olga liked it so much! (gcl)

[plutorine]

Earlier today I saw a tweet from one of my mutuals (@/verkhovenskaya on Twitter) about the parallels between St. Peter's upside down cross (he refused to be executed the same way as Jesus Christ because he deemed himself unworthy to die the same way his teacher did), Pyotr Verkhovensky, and the upside down cross' simultaneous association with the devil and it made me think of a few things:

(spoilers ahead)

St. Peter went on to be the "rock" (the name literally means that) of the Christian Church (capitalized to mean that this is the people, not just the establishment), and upon him, the Christian God would establish His reign on earth; Peter was also the first pope, and is God's representative on this realm.

The upside down cross, if interpreted diabolically, can be the reversal of St. Peter's humility and vision of the people adopting Jesus' values and bringing them together. In Demons, this can be understood as Pyotr Verkhovensky's perversion of that goal — he acts as the rock of the (false) Messiah (Nikolai) and his Church (their fellows and such), and seeks to wreak havoc among people.

One can also read the inverted cross as a symbol of Pyotr's hubris (in contrast to St. Peter's humility), as he does things that are usually attributed to God (taking Shatov's life, "creating" Nikolai), and also as his rebellion against the very force that he's been afraid of since he was a kid.

[mea-gloria-fides]

By the sea: Nikolai Pavlovich Neklyuenko.

[kootyl]

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna with Nikolai Pavlovich Sablin on the Standart, 1914.

[thestarik]

Olga, Maria and Tatiana with N. P. Sablin, 1906.

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia with her “Dyadka” Nikolai Pavlovich Sablin on the Standart, 1906

[royalty-nobility]

Portrait of Paul I, Maria Feodorovna and their Children

Artist: Franz Gerhard von Kugelgen (German, 1772-1820)

Date: c. 1800

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Private Collection

Portrait of Paul I, Maria Feodorovna and their Children

The imperial family is depicted against the backdrop of Pavlovsk Park. On the right in the background is the façade of the Pavlovsk Palace, facing the Slavyanka River.

The painting depicts, from left to right: Grand Prince Alexander Pavlovich in the uniform of the Life Guards Semyonovsky Regiment, leaning on a pedestal with a bust of Peter I; next to him stands Grand Prince Konstantin Pavlovich in the uniform of the Life Guards Cavalry Regiment; further on, little Grand Prince Nikolai Pavlovich is leaning against the knees of his mother, Empress Maria Feodorovna. Behind the figure of the seated Empress stands Grand Princess Ekaterina Pavlovna, and in the center of the composition, behind the harp, is Grand Princess Maria Pavlovna. Behind her, in the shade of the trees, is a column with a bust of Grand Princess Olga Pavlovna, who died in infancy. Further on, leaning on the knees of Emperor Paul I (in the uniform of the Preobrazhensky Regiment), stands the youngest daughter, Grand Princess Anna Pavlovna. At the foot of the chair on the ground sits a child - Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich. At the right edge of the painting stand Grand Dukes Alexandra and Elena Pavlovna.

The anachronism in the depiction of the uniforms of Alexander and Constantine is striking. Their tailcoat cut with a very high standing collar, open in the front, was introduced by Alexander I only in 1801. The innovation in the cut is easy to detect when comparing the uniform of the eldest sons with the suit of Paul I. This circumstance indicates that the "Family Portrait" was partially rewritten by the artist after the death of Paul I. In the handwritten Catalogue of the Paintings of the Pavlovsk Palace, compiled in 1925 by V. Zubov, there is an indication that this incongruity was noted by Emperor Alexander II. When examining the painting in infrared rays, it was discovered that the painting was indeed rewritten, and initially the uniforms of Alexander and Constantine looked different.