Grand Duchess Anastasia with her dog Jimmy, Grand Duchess Tatiana with her French bulldog Ortipo, and Tsesarevich Alexei with this spaniel Joy. Only Joy survived the revolution.
All the members of the Romanov family were animal lovers, and each imperial child had pets: dogs, cats, horses, and even a pet elephant. The children even had a little pet cemetery where they buried their beloved animals, which was located on the Children’s Island in the Alexander Park. They visited it often and brought fresh flowers…
Grand Duchess Olga’s cat Vaska.The Romanov children’s pet elephant in Tsarskoe Selo.Tsarevich Alexei with his dog Joy and Romanov family catTsarevich Alexei and Grand Duchess Tatiana with her dog OrtipoTsarevich Alexei with his dog JoyGrand Duchess Anastasia with the Romanov family dogGrand Duchesses Olga and Grand Duchess Maria with their kittens on the imperial yacht.Empress Alexandra with kittensTsarevich Alexei with his kittens on the imperial yacht.Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana at Children’s Island pet cemetery.
Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Tsarevich Alexei with their kittens on the imperial yacht.
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How far back in the family does the liking for pet dogs and cats go? What about Tzar Nicholas’s father and grandfather?. Who had the first Siamese Cats in Russia ? The French had people potty about cats throughout the 1700s, were therre any in Russia during that century . king Chulalongkorn of Thailand allegedly gave the Tzar of his time 200 Siamese Cats, is there any Russian record of that alledged event?
One thought on “ROMANOV FAMILY PETS”
How far back in the family does the liking for pet dogs and cats go? What about Tzar Nicholas’s father and grandfather?. Who had the first Siamese Cats in Russia ? The French had people potty about cats throughout the 1700s, were therre any in Russia during that century . king Chulalongkorn of Thailand allegedly gave the Tzar of his time 200 Siamese Cats, is there any Russian record of that alledged event?
Andrew Fitzherbert