This photograph has been commonly mislabeled (IMO) as Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana with their mother, Empress Alexandra. However, I believe that this is their Hessian aunt by marriage, Grand Duchess Eleanor, wife of Grand Duke Ernest of Hesse by Rhine – brother of Empress Alexandra. Read more ROMANOV GRAND DUCHESSES WITH THEIR HESSIAN AUNT. CRIMEA.
On June 9, 1908, King Edward VII became the first British monarch to visit Russia and his Romanov cousins. Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra were Edward VII’s nephew and niece, and he met them and the entire Romanov family on the waters of the Bay of Reval (today Tallinn). The king and his wife, Queen Alexandra, joined the Romanov family onboard the Russian imperial yacht The Standart.
“It is with feelings of the deepest satisfaction and pleasure that I welcome your Majesty and her Majesty the Queen to Russian waters. I trust that this meeting, while strengthening the many and strong ties which unite our Houses, will have the happy results of drawing our countries closer together, and of promoting and maintaining the peace of the world.”
The photographs below were also taken during the Cowes Regatta British royal visit on August 2nd of 1909. Read more ROMANOV FAMILY: RARE PHOTOS – BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY’S VISIT ON THE STANDART.
This seven minute colorized video footage makes the Romanov family members come to life!
ROMANOV FAMILY: RARE 1900 EASTER PROCESSION VIDEO
Easter procession of the Romanov family: Tsar Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra, their eldest daughter Grand Duchess Olga and the extended Romanov family and the court. They are walking down the Parade Staircase of the Moscow Kremlin on Palm Sunday (on April 2, 1900). Read more ROMANOV FAMILY: RARE 1900 EASTER PROCESSION VIDEO
This is such an amazing piece of history, that I feel like this photograph and video deserve their very own page.
Background story: Read more ROMANOV FAMILY IN ROMANIA: PHOTOS COME TO LIFE
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.
