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MARIA ROMANOV: GRAND DUCHESS MARIA NIKOLAEVNA OF RUSSIA

MARIA ROMANOV: GRAND DUCHESS MARIA NIKOLAEVNA OF RUSSIA

by Amanda Madru

Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna Romanova (1899-1918)
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna Romanov (1899-1918)

June 14th, 1899 (O.S.). A 101-gun salute is fired from the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg, heralding the birth of yet another daughter to Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, and his German-born wife, Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna. The baby’s arrival is met with near-universal disappointment: the Pauline Laws implemented by her ancestor, Emperor Pavel I’s stipulated that males come first in the succession, and a male heir was eagerly awaited. Nicholas and Alexandra have, after nearly five years of marriage, only three little girls to show for themselves. Russia is in need of an heir, and the Imperial couple has once again failed on this count. The infant is named in honor of her paternal grandmother, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna. She is christened Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia. Read more MARIA ROMANOV: GRAND DUCHESS MARIA NIKOLAEVNA OF RUSSIA

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ROMANOV FAMILY HAVING FUN

Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov playing a game of "the bushes" with officers on the Dnepr in 1916. Photo credit: ГА РФ, ф. 640 оп. 3 д. 25 л. 82 об. фото 1242
Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov playing a game with officers on the Dnepr in 1916. Photo credit: ГА РФ, ф. 640 оп. 3 д. 25 л. 82 об. фото 1242

During the war years when no balls or court entertainments were allowed to take place, and life was a series of solemn events, the Romanov sisters managed to find various ways to brighten their dutiful days as well as those of others. Read more ROMANOV FAMILY HAVING FUN

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MARIA and ANASTASIA: The Youngest Romanov Grand Duchesses In Their Own Words

Letters, Diaries, Postcards

They were the two youngest daughters of the world’s most powerful man – Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia. Known to their family and friends as “The Little Pair”, Grand Duchesses Maria and Anastasia were born into opulence, but led modest lifestyles. They were two normal young women growing up in extraordinary circumstances, ultimately getting caught in the middle of frightening political events that would take their teenage lives. Until this volume, the two girls did not have a chance to tell the story of the last four years of their lives during the first world war and the revolution, – in their very own words. Read more MARIA and ANASTASIA: The Youngest Romanov Grand Duchesses In Their Own Words

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ROMANOV GRAND DUCHESSES: THEIR LOVE OF CHILDREN

Grand Duchess Olga Romanov with her little German cousins
Grand Duchess Olga Romanov with her little German cousins

ROMANOV GRAND DUCHESSES: THEIR LOVE OF CHILDREN

All four Romanov grand duchesses loved little children, but Olga and Marie did in particular.

OTMA regularly went to visit the “Nanny school” – a local orphanage – and in Olga’s diaries we often see references to them playing with children, and clearly enjoying this.

It makes one feel very sad indeed to consider that these loving young women never lived to have children of their own. Read more ROMANOV GRAND DUCHESSES: THEIR LOVE OF CHILDREN

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