2015 – Page 12 – The Romanov Family

October 30, 2015Helen Azar No Comments

ROMANOV FAMILY: OTMA FOOTAGE

October 30, 2015Helen Azar No Comments

TATIANA ROMANOV: RUMORS OF ESCAPE

DID YOU KNOW?

As most of you are aware, Grand Duchess Anastasia is the member of Russian imperial family whose myth of escape became very well known around the world (mostly due to the most successful “claimant” Anna Anderson).

But during the time of captivity of the Romanov family, as well as shortly after their murder, Grand Duchess Tatiana was actually the one who was rumored to have escaped!

Read on:

October 29, 2015Helen Azar No Comments

ROMANOV FAMILY REMAINS: BURIAL CEREMONY (1998)

In hopeful anticipation that the Romanov family will be reunited in burial sooner rather than later, here are some footage excerpts from their 1998 burial ceremony at Peter & Paul Fortress in St Petersburg. May the two children join their family soon, as I am sure all of them would have wanted!

October 29, 2015Helen Azar 4 Comments

TATIANA ROMANOV: HER HANDWRITING

Grand Duchess Tatiana Romanov writing her lesson.

By the time I started working on Grand Duchess Tatiana’s letters and diaries, I had already completed numerous translations of the personal writings of other members of the Romanov family, and as a result was already familiar with their manner of expression, the idioms they used, and so on. Tatiana’s handwriting, however, was completely unique and certainly the most difficult to decipher out of all the Romanov family members. Her writing is sharp and graphic, with angular up and down diagonal strokes that evoke gables – very unusual for Russian penmanship.