DID YOU KNOW that in 1891, during the future Tsar Nicholas II’s trip to Japan, he showed great interest in Japanese traditional crafts, and as result got a traditional dragon tattoo on his right arm.
There are only a few photographs which show this tattoo, below are a couple of them: Read more NICHOLAS II: TSAR WITH A DRAGON TATTOO
ODE TO EMPRESS ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA
Written by Alexander Myslovsky
Everything passes like a dream in this life
And in the darkness it disappears without a trace.
Only love, like the sun in its zenith,
Will burn forever in this world …
And like a lily in the Garden of Eden,
You bloomed under its living rays.
And like a fairytale princess,
You dreamed about a beautiful prince.
And in the path of unknown fate Read more ODE TO EMPRESS ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA
“… [We] had tea on the balcony then swung in the hammock. It is hanging between two trees behind the path by the balcony. The trees there are very strong….” “Had tea with Shvybz and the same swung in a hammock…”
~Maria Romanov~
“…Maria and I swing in the hammocks sometimes and she almost always turns me over…” “…Maria and I… keep swinging in the hammock. ” “…We cut off old branches with dull knives and with our hands, and then swung in hammocks. Now there are two hammocks, as Marie has one too and they are hanging in a kilivatorny column…”
~Anastasia Romanov~ Read more MARIA AND ANASTASIA: LITTLE PAIR’S HAMMOCK
Read more TATIANA ROMANOV AND AMELIA EARHART
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”
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.
