From the 1916 diary of Tatiana Romanov (Military Headquarters, Mogilev): Read more ROMANOV FAMILY: ON THIS DATE IN THEIR OWN WORDS. TATIANA ROMANOV. 12 JULY, 1916.
Rare and beautifully haunting photograph of the second and the youngest daughters of Tsar Nicholas II: Grand Duchess Tatiana Romanov and Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov.
In the Spring of 1839, the heir to throne of Russia, Tsarevich Alexander Nikolaevich Romanov, visited England and met its new young queen, Victoria. Future Tsar Alexander II was a year older than the unmarried Queen of England, who was only 20 years old. Read more QUEEN VICTORIA AND TSAR ALEXANDER II: WOULD-BE ROMANCE AND MUTUAL DESCENDANTS
This photo of Grand Duchess Olga Romanov, her two sisters Grand Duchesses Anastasia and Tatiana and Officer Pavel Voronov was taken on their last day on the imperial yacht The Standart. We know the exact date of the photograph: 17 December, 1913. Read more ROMANOV FAMILY: ON THIS DATE IN THEIR OWN WORDS. OLGA ROMANOV. 17 DECEMBER, 1913.
The youngest child of Grand Duke Konstantin Romanov (“KR”) and his wife Grand Duchess Elizaveta Mavrikievna (“Mavra”), Princess Vera Konstantinovna Romanov was born in Pavlovsk in 1906. Having lived into 21st century, she was arguably the very last direct Romanov family link to the long gone world of imperial Russia. Princess Vera was a Romanov cousin whose godmother was Empress Alexandra Fedorovna herself.
As a little girl in 1915, she was no doubt traumatized when she witnessed the early death of her father, the esteemed poet “KR”. Little Princess Vera was the one who alerted her mother and others as her father struggled to breathe. Later the family was amazed as to how she was able to open very heavy doors of the study in order to do that. Read more PRINCESS VERA KONSTANTINOVNA: LAST LINK TO IMPERIAL RUSSIA
Alexander Palace in Tsarskoe Selo – the last residence of the Romanov family before the Russian revolution – is closed to visitors for the next three years: until the year 2018. The palace will undergo some large scale renovations in order to fix major structural problem as well as restorations to bring it back to its original look prior to 1917, when the Romanov family resided there. Read more ALEXANDER PALACE: LAST IMPERIAL RESIDENCE OF THE ROMANOV FAMILY CLOSED UNTIL 2018!
