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Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, as Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich, and Grand Duke George Alexandrovich with their tutor, Mr. Charles Heath, circa 1884.

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Maria Feodorovna with Irina Alexandrovna and Olga Nikolaevna in 1896

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Maria Nikolaevna holding Ivan Ivanovich Boehme. Crimea 1909

The only thing I know about Ivan is that his father was the General Admiral

Photos from Olga’s 1908-1910 Album

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Update - it’s Anastasia!

One of the grand duchesses (possibly Anastasia or Maria?) being a gymnast presumably inside the Alexander Palace. March 1914

From Maria’s 1913-1914 Album

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Anyone know if there are photos of Mary Ann Orchard “Orchie” with Alexandra’s girls? I think I have possibly found a few in Alexandra’s 1897-1899 album but I can’t be sure………

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February 1900

1 & 2 - Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna at the villa of Boris Vladimirovich

3 - Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, Tsar Nicholas II, and Prince Ernest of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

4 - Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna and Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich

Photos from Alexandra’s 1899-1900 Album

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Day before yesterday we were laughing awfully hard. The old Aunt Olga called our Olga, in order for her to ask this one soldier from the Sodny regiment to come over and visit her patient from the same regiment. Well, Olga immediately called the guard room, the guard on duty turned out to be Kulyukin, and he asks: "who is on the telephone?" She answers "Olga Nikolaevna." "Which Olga Nikolaevna?" -"Olga Nikolaevna, don't you know? The one who lives above you." —"I don't understand anything" — "Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, do you hear me?" —and starts to guffaw madly, so he got hurt and said: "Young lady, this is a service telephone, and practical jokes are not appropriate here," and hung up. Olga left. Then in 5 minutes, Tatiana comes over and makes a call; he recognized her, and she told him everything. Yesterday at obednya Kulyukin comes over and asks Resin to apologize to Olga for him, but that he wasn't expecting that she would call so he thought that someone was playing a practical joke. —Maria Nikolaevna to her father, January 1916

From Maria Romanov: Third Daughter of the Last Tsar, Diaries and Letters, 1908–1918

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Tsar Nicholas II with Sisters of Mercy near Volozhsk, December 23rd 1915

Photos from Nicholas’ 1913-1916 Album

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Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna and Tsar Nicholas II in Compiègne, September 1901

Photos from Nicholas’ 1900-1903 Album

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Anyone know who the children are with OTMA?

Two other photos from the same day

And the album page

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Tsar Nicholas II and his dog Iman in Compiègne, September 1901

Photo from Nicholas’ 1900-1903 Album

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Anastasia Nikolaevna and Olga Nikolaevna with a little boy named Kotya (next to Anastasia), a little girl named Natasha (sitting on Olga), and a girl named Atozhi (next to Olga) in Livadia, 1913

Photo from Tatiana’s 1913-1914 Album

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New/Old Rare of Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia with their Aunt Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna in livadia, 1913

I have yet to find this in one of the photo albums but I’ll update when I do!

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Anyone know who the children are with OTMA?

Two other photos from the same day

And the album page

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Мария Николаевна и Алексей Николаевич в Петергофе, 1912 год ГА РФ, ф. 640 оп. 3 д. 25 л. 17 об. фото 243

full size https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/15595/98255750.12/0_156137_8b0ea8ec_orig

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Princess Victoria ‘Ducky’ Melita and Alexandra Feodorovna

“God grant they [Ducky and Ernie] may be happy - she is such a dear.”

- Alexandra, 30th March 1894

“His parents were resigned: they had done their best to prevent the marriage [between Ducky and Kyrill], but it was done, and they expected the Tsar to give Kyrill a ticking-off and then forget all about it. They were stunned, and livid, to hear that their son had been stripped of his rank and titles and banished for his blatant breach of the family laws. Vladimir went to remonstrate with his nephew and Marie [Pavlovna the Elder] had no doubt of who was really to blame. 

She wrote to her uncle, Heinrich VII Reuss Kõstritz: ‘the blind vindictiveness and rage of the young Tsarina has, for sheer malice, exceeded everything the wildest imagination could conceive. She stormed and raged like a lunatic, dragging her weak husband along with her until he let her his power and so made it possible to revenge herself on her ex-sister-in-law for marrying the man of her choice.’

She really believed this and for ninety years her version of events has gone unchallenged. It is only now, as documents are released from the archives in Russia, that we can see how wrong she was. Alexandra did not hate Victoria Melita for the painful end of her brother’s marriage. She pitied them both, pleading with her sister-in-law Ksenia not to judge them harshly or listen to gossip about them*. It was Nicholas, not Alexandra, who felt obliged to punish his cousin, following a precedent set by his father, and many other members of the family supported the action he took.”

- Romanov Autumn 

* “Only one thing I entreat of you, darling Xenia, whenever you hear nasty gossip, at once put a stop to it, for their sakes and ours. […] Poor girl, she is utterly miserable now without a home, tho’ he leaves her the sweet Child. His home is desolate and everything will remind him of her whom he still cares for. But I cannot write any more about it; you can think how we sisters who adore him and are very fond her her, have suffered. But we must believe that always all is for the best. You will not judge them harshly dear, my poor unhappy ones.”

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Nicholas II, Tatiana Nikolaevna and Alexei Nikolaevich with a machine gun, 31st July/13th August 1914

“We had breakfast with Papa, Mama and N.P. [Nikolai Pavlovich]. Afterwards we looked at the German machine gun, which we took away.”

- Extract of Tatiana’s diary, 31st July/13th August 1914