~ ♔ ꧁ OTMA ꧂ ♔ ~

❧ “In the darkness of the mystery which surrounds the fate of these innocent children it is with poignant emotion that I recall them as they appeared, so full of life and joy, in those distant, yet incredibly near, days before the World War and the downfall of Imperial Russia.”

❧ “Olga was perhaps the cleverest of them all, her mind being so quick to grasp ideas, so absorbent of knowledge that she learned almost without application or close study. Her chief characteristics, I should say, were a strong will and a singularly straightfor, ward habit of thought and action.”

❧ “Tatiana was almost a perfect reincarnation of her mother. Taller and slenderer than her sisters, she had the soft, refined features and the gentle, reserved manners of her English ancestry. Kindly and sympathetic of disposition, she displayed towards her younger sisters and her brother such a protecting spirit that they, in fun, nicknamed her "the governess."

❧ “Marie had splendid eyes and rose-red cheeks. She was inclined to be stout and she had rather thick lips which detracted a little from her beauty. Marie had a naturally sweet disposition and a very good mind.”

❧ “Anastasia, a sharp and clever child, was a very monkey for jokes, some of them at times almost too practical for the enjoyment of others. I remember once when the family was in their Polish estate in winter the children were amusing themselves at snowballing. The imp which sometimes seemed to possess Anastasia led her to throw a stone rolled in a snowball straight at her dearly loved sister Tatiana. The missile struck the poor girl fairly in the face with such force that she fell senseless to the ground. The grief and horror of Anastasia lasted for many days and permanently cured her of her worst propensities to practical jokes.”

- Anna Vyrubova (friend and personal confidante of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna)

Grand Duchesses Maria Nikolaevna and Anastasia Nikolaevna with their little brother, Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich on a field, circa 1908 (?). 🤍🌾

Grand Duchesses at play in the snow.

~ 💗 OTMA lookalikes 💗 ~

Olga Nikolaevna — Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia)

Tatiana Nikolaevna — Maria Alexandrovna (Maria of Hesse)

Maria Nikolaevna — Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)

Anastasia Nikolaevna — Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)

(Thank you to @duchessnoor for inspiring this post!)

The imperial family playing with the officers 1909-1910.

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna

Grand Duchesses Olga Alexandrovna and her niece Anastasia Nikolaevna

Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich is on the left in the last two

One of my favorites and most beautiful footages that shows us the lovely family moments of the Romanovs.

Grand Duchesses Anastasia, Marie and Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanov. I find you can always tell who is younger or older than who in photos but in this image, I always found they looked like they could be triplets.

Portraits in pencil of the four daughters of the last Tsar of the Russian Empire, Nicholas II. I drew these as an exercise to see if I could replicate F.A. von Kaulbach’s style - and let me tell you it wasn’t easy! But so worth it in the end. ^_^ 1. Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna. (1895-1918) 2. Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna. (1897-1918) 3. Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna. (1899-1918) 4. Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna. (1901-1918) Collectively "OTMA."   I hope those who follow me enjoy! Also, PLEASE credit me appropriately if you’d like to share/post these elsewhere. I take a lot of time with my artwork, thank-you! :) ________________________________________________________________ Please note: Originally posted to my regular Tumblr at: (https://artsyboy90.tumblr.com/) And also, if you’d like to follow me on Instagram, you can find me at: https://www.instagram.com/passion_thruart/

Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Nikolaevna wearing wedding dresses. With these images we can see how they would have look on their wedding day.

(made with A.I)

Beautiful Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna (1830 -1911) married Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich, brother of Alexander II. Konstantin was very bright and cultured (although not the best-looking of the grand dukes and certainly not the most emotionally mature.) At first, he was very much in love with “Sani,” as her brother-in-law called her, but eventually, he set up a “second family” with a ballerina and installed her and the children he had by her on the grounds of the home where his “first family” resided. Sani was, through her daughter, who became Queen of the Hellenes, Prince Phillip’s great-grandmother.

Olga and Tatiana

(source: 📷)

1910, the Finnish skerries

(Aww, Anastasia’s little side part is everything.)

❧ The four children of Tsar Nicholas II who remained at Tobolsk while their parents and sister Maria set off for Yekaterinburg, May 1918

From left to right: Anastasia, Tatiana (back), Alexei, and Olga ☙

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia on the Imperial yacht Standart, 1912.

Olga and one of her sisters watch a parade at the Catherine Palace, 1907.

OTMA with shaved heads, 1917

“Now we four shaved our heads because our hair had fallen out terribly after our measles. More than half of Maria's hair had fallen out it is a horror but now we feel [more] comfortable.”

— letter from Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna to Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna, July 20th 1917 (o.s), Tsarskoe Selo

Grand Duchesses Olga and Maria playing with officers 1913