Helen Azar – Page 61 – The Romanov Family

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DIARY OF TATIANA ROMANOV: GRAND PALACE INFIRMARY

Sisters [of Mercy] Olga Romanov and Tatiana Romanov at the Grand Palace infirmary. Tsarskoe Selo. — Sisters [of Mercy] Olga Romanov and Tatiana Romanov with the wounded outside of the Grand Palace infirmary in Tsarskoe Selo. Click on photo to enlarge. Photo credit:ГА РФ, ф. 640 оп. 3 д. 25 л. 68 фото 1005

From the 1915 diary of Tatiana Romanov: Read more DIARY OF TATIANA ROMANOV: GRAND PALACE INFIRMARY

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ROMANOV FAMILY: ON THIS DATE IN THEIR OWN WORDS. OLGA ROMANOV. 12 JUNE, 1913.

Grand Duchesses Olga, Maria and Anastasia in Crimea. Photo credit: ГА РФ, ф. 640 оп. 3 д. 25 л. 7 об. фото 105 — Grand Duchesses Olga, Maria and Anastasia Romanov in Crimea. Photo credit: ГА РФ, ф. 640 оп. 3 д. 25 л. 7 об. фото 105

From the 1913 diary of Olga Romanov: Read more ROMANOV FAMILY: ON THIS DATE IN THEIR OWN WORDS. OLGA ROMANOV. 12 JUNE, 1913.

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GRAND DUCHESS MARIA AND TSAREVICH ALEXEI: WILL THEIR REMAINS FINALLY BE ALLOWED TO REST IN PEACE?

Grand Duchess Maria Romanov and TSarevich Alexei Romanov — Grand Duchess Maria Romanov and Tsarevich Alexei Romanov

The reburial of two children of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna has finally been (tentatively?) scheduled for October 18, 2015. The ceremony will take place in the Peter and Paul Cathedral on Zayachi Island in St. Petersburg. This proposal was made by the Special Commission of the Russian government, under the leadership of Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers Sergei Prikhodko.

The committee has been dealing with research and reburial of the Tsar’s children for several years. Currently the skeletal remains of (what is now accepted to be) Maria Romanov and her brother Alexei Romanov are kept at Russia’s State Archives. The other members of the imperial Romanov family were previously entombed at St Peter and Paul Cathedral, where all Russian Tsars and members of the imperial family had been traditionally buried. Read more GRAND DUCHESS MARIA AND TSAREVICH ALEXEI: WILL THEIR REMAINS FINALLY BE ALLOWED TO REST IN PEACE?

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DIARY OF OLGA ROMANOV: YURIEVSKY MONASTERY, NOVGOROD

Stones from Russia's oldest monastery: Yurievsky monastery in Novgorod, which the Romanov family visited on December 11, 1916, shortly before Nicholas II's abdication and the Russian revolution. — Stones from Russia’s oldest monastery: Yurievsky monastery in Novgorod, which the Romanov family visited on December 11, 1916, shortly before Nicholas II’s abdication and the Russian revolution.

I was doing some major cleaning and came across this. Two small stones I “smuggled” from Russia back in 2004. Don’t worry, I picked these stones off the ground: they actually fell off from Georgievsky Cathedral at Russia’s oldest monastery – Yuriev Monastery (or Yurievsky Monastery) just outside of Novgorod (founded in 1119). Unfortunately this historic building is in much disrepair, at least it was in 2004 when I was there, which is why loose stones were constantly falling off it. The Romanov family made a pilgrimage there in December of 1916, shortly before the Russian revolution broke out. Grand Duchess Olga Romanov wrote about this experience in her diary. For some reason that day’s entry is missing from the 1916 diary of Tsar Nicholas II.

From the 1916 diary of Olga Romanov: Read more DIARY OF OLGA ROMANOV: YURIEVSKY MONASTERY, NOVGOROD