The children of Nicholas II on White Flower Day.
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OTMA - Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov. I love Marie and Anastasia hugging one another in the background.
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The girls were addicted to perfumes, and when they bathed at night, the water was perfumed and softened with almond bran. They always used Coty. Tatiana favoured Jasmin de Cors; Olga, Rose Thé; Marie constantly changed her perfumes, but was more or less faithful to Lilas, and Anastasia never deviated from Violette.
Lili Dehn, The Real Tsaritsa (1922)
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A hilarious photo showing Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia climbing a hill made of snow, while her sister, Olga Nikolaevna is pushing her from the back. Her brother, Tsarevich Alexei, looks at the camera while one of his friends is pulling Nastya by the hand. Their father, Tsar Nicholas II, is looking from the side.
p.s. if anyone knows who the boy is pls write in the comments or dm me (@otmaaromanovas maybe you do tho?)
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Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia of Russia, 1914.
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~ ♔ ꧁ 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)
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Grand Duchess Olga
i think this is the longest i've ever spent on a piece but imo it shows and i'm so incredibly pleased with it
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NEW dress belonging to OTMA has been discovered
A BRAND NEW, never-before-seen dress belonging to one of the Grand Duchesses has been discovered by the Hermitage Museum and exhibited for the first time.
It has not yet been identified who the pink and red dress belongs to. The sisters used to have their first name and patronymics stitched into the waist of their dresses in order to differentiate between them. Similarly, the dress maker is not yet known, though it is highly likely that it was produced in the workshops of either Olga Bubenkova or August Brizak, two of the Romanov family’s favourite designers.
The dress, alongside many other pieces of clothing and personal items, can be seen at the Hermitage Museum’s new exhibit, ‘OTMA & Alexei’.
Sources and photos: Дети последнего российского императора. Выбор куратора, Hermitage Museum, RomanovsOneLastDance
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The grand duchesses's favorites perfumes, 1910s.
Olga, La Rose Jacqueminot by Coty.
Tatiana, Jasmin de Corse by Coty.
Maria, Lilas Pourpre by Coty.
Anastasia, Violette Pourpre by Coty.
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Alexandra Feodorovna with her daughters, 1913.
Another example of "old timey Photoshop." All the other postcard versions of this image are landscape; for some reason this one was published in portrait orientation. That meant they had to draw in the rest of Alix and Maria's skirts as well as the chair. They didn't . . . they didn't do great. The draping on Alix's especially looks very stiff and unnatural, being so straight. You can also see editing above Olga, Tatiana and Anastasia's heads where they had to fill in background that wasn't there.
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Alexandra with Olga and Tatiana.
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She was a poetical creature, always yearning for the ideal.
Lili Dehn on Grand Duchess Tatiana, The Real Tsaritsa (1922)
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‘You kindly asked after the children & I enclose their last photos to give you an idea what they look like. Thank God Alexei has been keeping in much better health & has grown very much. He will be 10 this summer. I think you would love him […] He has such a tender heart - & bears pains so patiently - is very merry & clever’.
Photographs enclosed with a letter sent by Empress Alexandra to her aunt Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, 17/30 May 1914. (x)
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Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia with her second child Grand Duchess Tatiana Nicholaievna of Russia, 1898.
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