2015 – Page 3 – The Romanov Family

December 12, 2015Helen Azar No Comments

ANASTASIA ROMANOV: 1916 LETTER

From a letter of Anastasia Romanov:

December 11, 2015Helen Azar No Comments

OLGA ROMANOV: ACCIDENT ON “THE STANDART”

“Accident on our yacht”: From lesson book of Olga Romanov.

December 9, 2015Helen Azar 2 Comments

ANASTASIA ROMANOV: HER REGIMENT, INFIRMARY AND MEDICAL TRAIN

It was a Romanov family tradition for the Tsar to create each of the imperial daughters honorary commander of one of Russian regiments on her fourteenth birthday.

In 1901, after the birth of Nicholas II’s youngest daughter Anastasia, the Kaspiysky 148th Infantry Regiment received the name of St. Anastasia – in honor of the baby grand duchess. Since then their regimental holidays were celebrated on December 22 – the day of the saint.

December 9, 2015Helen Azar 3 Comments

TATIANA ROMANOV: TYPHOID FEVER, 1913.

TATIANA ROMANOV: TYPHOID FEVER, 1913

Tsarevich Alexei with Grand Duchess Tatiana in bed with typhoid fever.

On 24 February, 1913, Grand Duchess Tatiana contracted typhoid fever in the period of the Great Lent before Orthodox Easter. Her condition was very serious for the rest of February and the entire month of March, when the Tercentenary Celebrations actually began.

From the 1913 diary of Tatiana Romanov:

“24th February. Sunday. In the morning temp. 39.2”

December 9, 2015Helen Azar 1 Comment

ROMANOV FAMILY: CELEBRATING ORTHODOX CHRISTMAS

Along with millions of their Russian Orthodox subjects, this is how the Romanov family celebrated this holiday each year.

CELEBRATING ORTHODOX CHRISTMAS

by George Hawkins

Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia in front of the Romanov family Christmas tree

In the Orthodox Faith, Christmas is one of our most important celebrations. The Feast of the Nativity is one of the twelve Great Feasts of the Church. Over and above the twelve Great Feasts is the Feast of Feasts – Pascha (Easter). In the Orthodox Church, Christmas is sometimes known as the Winter Pascha, showing its importance to the Christian Faith.

December 8, 2015Helen Azar 2 Comments

ROMANOV FAMILY: CHRISTMAS AT THE ALEXANDER PALACE

From the memoir of Margaretta Eager (Romanov family nanny):

“We generally spent Christmas at Tsarskoe Selo. It is less elaborately observed than Easter in general, but at the Alexander Palace it was a great festival. There were no fewer than eight Christmas trees in various parts of the palace. The Empress decorated them all herself, and personally chose the presents for each member of her household, and for each officer, to the number of about five hundred. A tree was arrayed for the Cossacks in the riding-school. The children and I had a tree for ourselves. It was fixed into a musical-box which played the German Christmas hymn, and turned round and round. It was indeed a glittering object. All the presents were laid out on white covered tables, and the tree stood for several days an object of intense interest and admiration to the children. They were very sad when it was dismantled just before we went to St. Petersburg, but they were consoled by being allowed to help, and to divide the ornaments among the members of their own household.”