October 21, 2015Helen Azar 1 Comment

GRAND DUCHESS ELIZAVETA MAVRIKIEVNA: “AUNT MAVRA”

This photograph was taken in the apartments of Grand Duchess Elizaveta Mavrikievna, wife of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich (1858-1915), the Romanov family poet known as “KR”. Known to the extended Romanov family as “Aunt Mavra”, Elizaveta Mavrikievna lived out her last years (1922-1927) in exile in this Oldenburg castle.

On the wall of her room you can see a portrait of her husband, a drawing of the Madonna and Child (Elizaveta Mavrikievna did not convert to Orthodoxy and remained Lutheran), photographs of her children who were murdered by Bolsheviks in Alapayevsk. Read more GRAND DUCHESS ELIZAVETA MAVRIKIEVNA: “AUNT MAVRA”

October 20, 2015Helen Azar No Comments

ROMANOV FAMILY IN PARIS, 1896.

1896 – “The Russian Week” in France

His Majesty Tsar Nicholas II, Her Majesty Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna and the ten-month-old Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, arrived in Cherbourg, where they were met by President of France Felix Faure. So began “The Russian week” in France, which ended on 27 September with a parade in Chalon. Read more ROMANOV FAMILY IN PARIS, 1896.

October 19, 2015Helen Azar No Comments

ROMANOV FAMILY REMAINS: UPDATE – 16 OCTOBER, 2015.

New study on the remains of the Romanov family should be completed by February, 2016

One of the last photographs of the members of the Romanov family - in exile in Siberia after the Russian revolution. — Left: the shallow grave with the remains of the Romanov family, unearthed in 1997 in Ekaterinburg. Right: one of the last photographs of the members of the Romanov family – in exile in Siberia after the Russian revolution.

October 16, 2015 – The Russian government hopes that all the work on the remains of the Romanov family and plans for their reburial will be completed by early February 2016, said a Cabinet source. “By early February, we expect the completion of all tests, the completion of all procedures, to have prepared a report from the investigative team, and furthermore, the restoration of the original appearance of the sarcophagus of Tsar Alexander III”. Read more ROMANOV FAMILY REMAINS: UPDATE – 16 OCTOBER, 2015.

October 19, 2015Helen Azar No Comments

DIARY OF TATIANA ROMANOV: INFIRMARY PATIENT IEDIGAROV

Veli Bey Sadiq Bey Yedigarov oglu - one of the patients at the infirmary of Sister of Mercy Tatiana Romanov. — Veli Bey Sadiq Bey Yedigarov oglu – one of the patients at the infirmary of Sister of Mercy Tatiana Romanov.

From the diary of Tatiana Romanov 19 October, 1914: Read more DIARY OF TATIANA ROMANOV: INFIRMARY PATIENT IEDIGAROV

October 19, 2015Helen Azar No Comments

ROMANOV FAMILY: ON THIS DATE IN THEIR OWN WORDS. OLGA ROMANOV. 22 AUGUST, 1913

Grand duchesses — Grand Duchess Olga and Grand Duchess Tatiana with their father, Tsar Nicholas II and a Romanov family friend Anna Vyrubova, in a Crimean vineyard.

From the 1913 diary of Olga Romanov: Read more ROMANOV FAMILY: ON THIS DATE IN THEIR OWN WORDS. OLGA ROMANOV. 22 AUGUST, 1913

October 16, 2015Helen Azar No Comments

CHAMPION OF ROMANOV FAMILY: RIP GELI RYABOV

Geli Ryabov published a book called "How It Happened. The Romanovs: Hiding of bodies, search, aftermath. — Geli Ryabov published a book called “How It Happened. The Romanovs: Hiding of bodies, search, aftermath.”

Geli Trofimovich Ryabov passed away today – October 16, 2015 – on the 84th year of life. Film director, screenwriter, acclaimed author whose work I often referenced for my own books.

Born in 1932 in an ordinary family, he graduated from Moscow Institute of Law in 1954, then worked as an investigator, and later as Assistant to Minister of Internal Affairs. But in his mind, his biggest achievement was taking part in the discovery of the remains of the Romanov family. Read more CHAMPION OF ROMANOV FAMILY: RIP GELI RYABOV