ROMANOV GRAND DUCHESSES: THEIR LOVE OF CHILDREN
All four Romanov grand duchesses loved little children, but Olga and Marie did in particular.
OTMA regularly went to visit the “Nanny school” – a local orphanage – and in Olga’s diaries we often see references to them playing with children, and clearly enjoying this.
It makes one feel very sad indeed to consider that these loving young women never lived to have children of their own. Read more ROMANOV GRAND DUCHESSES: THEIR LOVE OF CHILDREN
From Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna’s 1913 diary: Read more IMPERIAL LIFE IN LIVADIA PRIOR TO THE WAR (1913).
From the 1913 diary of Olga Romanov:
“… [We] went to Kharax, returned at 3 o’clock and walked in Oreanda and our Livadia vineyards… Wonderful weather – sunny… [I] walked with Sh. the whole time, and also sat with him at tea, also with S., and again [had] a strange feeling…”
During the year 1913 Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna fell in love with two young officers, in her diary she referred to them as “Sh.” and “S.”. You can read more about them in Olga Romanov’s full 1913 diary in the book below. Read more OLGA ROMANOV: GRAND DUCHESS IN LOVE (1913 DIARY)
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You can read Maria’s full diary entry and much more in the book available on amazon.com.
Rare Christmas postcard written by Grand Duchess Elisabeth to Elena Georgievna, Princess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (great-granddaughter of Tsar Paul I). Ella wrote the address in Russian because this postcard was going to a Russian destination (St Petersburg), but the actual message with the Christmas greetings and wishes for a peaceful 1905 was written in German. Ironically 1905 turned out to be anything but a peaceful for Ella (and for the rest of the Romanov family for that matter), starting with her husband’s, Grand Duke Sergei’s assassination just a few weeks later. Read more Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna’s 1905 postcard
