thelastsar
The Last Tsar
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Ayla | MCMXCVI | Rio de Janeiro Blog about the house of Romanov that ruled on Russia for more than 300 years, from 1613 till 1918. Sometimes you will see some post about the Grand Ducal Family of Hesse. Fell free to talk to me!
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thelastsar · 5 years ago
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Hi people!
As you know I created this blog because my other one had been deactivated by the Tumblr team. Today I received a message from them and they gave back my old tumblr, so from now on I will not use this blog anymore, I will stay at my older blog.
Follow me at @the-last-tsar
Thank you :)
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Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna.
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Victoria Melita (‘Ducky’), Grand Duchess of Hesse and Alexandra (‘Sunny’) Feodorovna, 1901
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Alexandra Feodorovna, 1896
“How sweet and friendly she [Alexandra] is; it’s only a pity that she finds it so difficult to overcome her shyness.”
- Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, 10th/22nd April 1896
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Tsarevich Alexei with a little friend, 1913
“No one, I think, could help loving that child, who, besides his natural charm, won everybody by the kindess of his heart, his responsiveness to other people’s troubles - he was always first to help and comfort - and the patience with which he bore the terrible disease that made him a martyr from time to time.”
- Olga Woronoff
“He had very quick wits and a keen and penetrating mind. He sometimes surprised me with questions beyond his years which bore witness to a delicate and intuitive spirit. I hid no difficulty in believing that those who were not forced, as I was, to teach him habits of discipline, but could unreservedly enjoy his charm, easily fell under its spell. Under the capricious little creature I had known at first I discovered a child of a naturally affectionate disposition, sensitive to suffering in others just because he had already suffered so much himself.”
- Pierre Gilliard
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Alexandra Feodorovna and Grand Duchess Maria, 1912
“She [Alexandra] was gay and happy, and even took part in the quieter of our games. She displayed the greatest interest in everything and often laughed to tears at her children’s pranks. […] Marie was kindess and unselfishness personified.”
- Olga Woronoff
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The daughters of Emperor Nicholas II—Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia—based on their 1914 formal photographs.
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Tsarevna Marie Feodorovna, wife of the future Alexander III by Ivan Tyurin, 1869.
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Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna.
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The Hermitage Museum | St. Petersburg | Russia.
From the 1760s onwards the Winter Palace was the main residence of the Russian Tsars. Magnificently located on the bank of the Neva River, this Baroque-style palace is perhaps St. Petersburg’s most impressive attraction. Many visitors also know it as the main building of the Hermitage Museum. The green-and-white three-storey palace is a marvel of Baroque architecture and boasts 1,786 doors, 1,945 windows and 1,057 elegantly and lavishly decorated halls and rooms, many of which are open to the public. The Winter Palace was built between 1754 and 1762. Many of the palace’s impressive interiors have been remodeled since then, particularly after 1837, when a huge fire destroyed most of the building. Today the Winter Palace, together with four more buildings arranged side by side along the river embankment, houses the extensive collections of the Hermitage. The Hermitage Museum is the largest art gallery in Russia and is among the largest and most respected art museums in the world.The museum was founded in 1764 when Catherine the Great purchased a collection of 255 paintings from the German city of Berlin. Today, the Hermitage boasts over 2.7 million exhibits and displays a diverse range of art and artifacts from all over the world and from throughout history (from Ancient Egypt to the early 20th century Europe). The Hermitage’s collections include works by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian, a unique collection of Rembrandts and Rubens, many French Impressionist works by Renoir, Cezanne, Manet, Monet and Pissarro, numerous canvasses by Van Gogh, Matisse, Gaugin and several sculptures by Rodin. The collection is both enormous and diverse and is an essential stop for all those interested in art and history. The experts say that if you were to spend a minute looking at each exhibit on display in the Hermitage, you would need 11 years before you’d seen them all. х
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Imperial Russia Meme | R U S S I A N  O R T H O D O X  C H U R C H | Marfo - Mariinsky Covent
In 1905 Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna was fated to witness her husband’s brutal murder when a bomb was set off as he exited his front door. Rather than seek revenge on his murderer or pity herself Elizabeth acted with great moral strength and true forgiveness. She went to the prison cell of the murderer hoping that he would repent of his act that his immortal soul might be saved. This experience wrought a decisive moral change in the soul of the Grand Duchess which caused her to forsake her former way of life. Having on her own initiative converted to the Orthodox faith in her seventh year of marriage, she now sought to devote herself entirely to the spiritual life. Her vision was to create a community made up of women from all social strata that would merge the ideals of Saints Martha and Mary to achieve faith and love in service to others, and to achieve prayer in humility. With the help of God St. Elizabeth saw her dream realized. She acquired a small property within the city of Moscow on which she constructed a hospital; an orphanage for girls; and quarters for the sisters. There was also a dining hall where 300 meals were served daily to the poor. In 1910 a separate church was built on the property dedicated to the Protection of the Mother of God. While supervising the activities of the sisterhood, which at its peak numbered 97 sisters, St. Elizabeth also served as a shining example of selfless devotion to others and a true struggler in Orthodox piety. She slept no more than three to four hours a day on a wooden bed without a mattress. Her daily fare consisted of vegetables and milk, when fasting rules allowed. At midnight she would rise to pray and then make the rounds of the hospital visiting the bedsides of the most seriously ill and comforting them with her words. This good and holy work was not to last long however. On Bright Tuesday, March 13,1918, with the coming of the Communist government, St. Elizabeth was forcibly taken from her convent and placed under arrest. As a member of the royal family and through the pious influence she had on the people she was considered to be the opposition and not to be trusted. On the night of July 5/18,1918 St. Elizabeth, her cell attendant Barbara, who refused to leave St. Elizabeth’s side upon her arrest though she knew it would mean her own death, and five members of the Royal Family were taken out of their place of confinement and thrown alive into a deep mine shaft. If one’s eyes were directed only towards this world then there would remain little to remind us of the achievements of St. Elizabeth. By 1926 the Convent of Sts. Martha and Mary had been totally disbanded and its remaining members exiled to Central Asia. Their church was impiously converted into a social hall by the Communists and on the site of the altar table was placed a statue of Lenin. There is now a revival of the memory of St. Elizabeth in the Soviet Union and- pilgrims bring back news of restoration going on in the Convent. A statue has been erected in the courtyard of her convent with the inscription, “To The Grand Duchess Elizabeth. With Repentance.”
A Day at the Community
“Thou shalt Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and all your soul, and all thy mind, and all thy strength; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself”
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Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia by von Angeli.
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One of the favourite past times of the 19th century Russian nobility were amateur stage performances, often based on famous literary work, in which the members of the noble families would themselves participate. At one such occassion Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich, future Tsar Nicholas II, played the lead role in an adaptation of Pushkin´s Eugene Onegin. The role of beautiful Tatiana was entrusted to his aunt by marriage, Grand Duchess Elizaveta Fyodorovna.
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@The-Last-Tsar is now on @Thelastsar
Hello people!
I don’t know why but Tumblr deactivated my previous account, so I will reestart the blog using this new url.
If you can, please, follow me!  This time the blog will be better and prettier than before.
Since now thank you!
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