FEODOROVSKY GORODOK Across the Alexander Park, down the path from the palace Palace is Feodorovsky Gorodok, a tiny old Russia style town built by Nicholas II in the first decade of the 20th century as an attempt to return to the original Russian architecture and culture. Nicholas, unlike his earlier predecessor Peter the Great, loved…
ON THIS DATE IN THEIR OWN WORDS. OLGA ROMANOV – 7 APRIL, 1913. From the 1913 diary of Olga Romanov:
OLGA ROMANOV: HER LAST LOVE, DMITRI (“MITYA”) SHAKH-BAGOV From the 1915-1916 diaries of Olga Romanov: “… Spoke with Mitya, he is sad for some reason, poor little thing…. ” “… Looked at a [photo] album with Mitya and others. Stopped by [to see] everyone and [sat] on the balcony with Mitya for a minute… Spoke with Mitya….” …
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TATIANA ROMANOV: GRAND DUCHESS TATIANA NIKOLAEVNA OF RUSSIA “The second bright happy day in our family: at 10.40 in the morning the Lord blessed us with a daughter – Tatiana. Poor Alix suffered all night without shutting her eyes for a moment, and at 8 o’clock went downstairs to Amama’s bedroom. Thank God this…
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OLGA ROMANOV: GRAND DUCHESS OLGA NIKOLAEVNA OF RUSSIA A very large baby girl joined the Romanov family on November 15 (Old Style: November 3) 1895, in St Petersburg, Russia. On that day her father, Tsar Nicholas II, wrote in his diary: “A day I will remember forever . . . at exactly 9 o’clock…
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TIME TRAVEL WITH ROMANOV FAMILY: CHILDREN’S ISLAND Across a canal from the west wing of the Alexander Palace is a tiny island – called the Children’s Island, complete with a miniature but fully real play house. The play house was originally built for the children of the first…
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