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Princess Zenaida Youssoupoff in her famous salon. As you can see from photographs, aside from personal touches, the room has survived largely intact.
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Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna with her eldest and favorite granddaughter, Princess Irina Alexandrovna.
#Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna#princess irina alexandrovna#Princess Irina Youssoupoff#Romanov#Nobility#Yusupov#Yussupoiv#Youssoupoff#Youssoupov
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Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich
Dramatic picture of a young man who took his sadness with him wherever he went through his life.
We know less than more about him. Why did he always keep quiet about his role in the murder of Rasputin while Felix Yousupov had no qualms about making money out of his reminiscences?
It would seem the only woman he ever loved was Coco Chanel. But although she liked him well enough she did not love him. His son recounted that years after the affair he was still talking about her.
He married a rich American heiress who left him for another man.
And I had heard a rumor that his true, lifelong love was Marie of Romania, who seduced him when he was barely out of adolescence.
What is true, and what isn’t? One thing is for sure...he was the Grand Duke with the sad eyes. His first loss happened when his mother died the day he was born, and he could never get over it.
Sources:
Hall, C. (2023). In Rasputin’s Killer and his Romanov Princess: Prince Felix Youssoupov and the tsar’s niece Irina (p. 98). Amberley Publishing.:ources:
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Hello! Me again! I'm not sure if you're the person to ask about this, but I was recently idly scrolling through Zinaida Yusupova's Wikipedia page and I saw the following: ‘In private, [Zinaida] became a severe critic of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.’ I had never heard this before, and I couldn't find any other information on it. Do you know if Zinaida really did dislike Alix? Thank you & have a lovely day!!
Hello, it's always nice to hear from you! ☺️
I, too, am still in the learning process, however I did consult John Van Kirste's biography of Grand Duchess Xenia and Coryne Hall's Little Mother of Russia to find some answers to your question.
The way I see it is that as with many other members of the Imperial family those friendly relations with Alexandra became more distant with Rasputin entering the scene. I don't know what Zinaida's opinion of Alexandra prior the whole Rasputin spectacle was, but later on, she did become one of her many critics. Many members including Zinaida believed that Alicky and her "evil genius" as they referred to Rasputin were behind each and every of Nicholas' disastrous decisions (like taking personal command of the army). Some excerpts from the mentioned Xenia biography (the first one is when the tsar's mother and sister tried to plead with him not take command of the army):
"On 18 August Xenia accompanied her mother to Tsarskoe Selo, 'to try my luck', as the Dowager Empress wrote in her diary. Nicholas was at Kronstadt and did not return until 7pm. Meanwhile, they had tea with Alix, who spoke about everything except what was uppermost in their minds. To their frustration, when Nicholas returned, the conversation again had no result, and the family put this down to the influence of Alix and Rasputin. In May Princess Zenaide Youssoupov had visited Yelagin and implored the family to protest about Rasputin's malign influence over the Empress."
"On the insistence of the Dowager Empress and her daughters, Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich wrote to the Tsar warning him about Alix's influence in government affairs. The Tsar gave the unopened letter to his wife, who responded with a hysterical outburst accusing the Grand Duke of 'crawling behind your mother and sisters'."
After Rasputin's murder.
"While Sandro [Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich] could not be expected to shed any tears for Rasputin, he was one of the first to recognize that an event which looked at first like deliverance would create more problems than it solved. [...] The family were united in asking Sandro to go and plead the case of the murderers before Nicky. [...] Matters were made even worse when Princess Youssoupov sent an ill-considered letter to Xenia, stating that although as Felix's mother she felt her son's position deeply, she congratulated the Grand Duchess on her husband's conduct in the affair, implying that he had saved the whole situation as his request for immunity for all concerned would have to be granted. Her only regret was that the principals had been unable to bring their enterprise to the desired end, and that there still remained the task of confining 'Her', namely the Tsarina. This message was intercepted by the Minister of the Interior, who took it to the Tsar."
I feel like this is all over the place, but I sincerely hope I managed to answer your question. If anyone else has more to share, feel free to do so.
Take care x
#in short: not sure if she disliked her before but she was critical of her later on#the problem was that alexandra saw any attack on rasputin as an attack on the health of alexei#answered
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Princess Tatiana Vassilievna Youssoupov (1797). Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755-1842). Oil on canvas. Tokyo Fuji Art Museum.
Here, the lovely Russian noblewoman, seated in a rose garden, leans on a marble pedestal as she tresses a crown of flower with a fillet of ribbon. A transparent kerchief into which are bound a number of pink roses is woven through her blond curls. Over a gauzy undergarment, she wears a simple short-sleeved sheath with a low decolletage and a high waist. The warm red cloak bordered with classical designs contrasts with the white of the dress; the verticality of the pose is relieved by the tree growing diagonally at the right. The softness of the contours, the painterly effects, and vibrant palette, as well as the idyllic setting, impart to this exquisitely sensitive portrait a rococo rather than an "antique" flavor.
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"Bathers” (2010) by Kazakh artist Ildar Youssoupov (*1972).
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Here is a list of books you might want to read if you are interested in the Romanov dynasty and the country and society they goverened. I have read some, I own most and some may be of warying quality and reliability. Some include periods before and after the Russian Empire. Some could be fitted into more than one cathegory. A few are not available in English.I will try to update this list from time to time as I find new books or new books become published. Enjoy!
Diaries and correspondence of the Romanovs
The Memoirs of Catherine the Great
Love and Conquest: Personal Correspondence of Catherine the Great and Prince Grigory Potemkin
Chere Annette: Letters from St. Petersburg, 1820-1828: The Correspondence of the Empress Maria Feodorovna to Her Daughter the Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna
A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story
Romanov Family Yearbook: On This Date in Their Own Words
The Letters of Tsar Nicholas and Empress Marie
The Correspondence Of The Empress Alexandra Of Russia With Ernst Ludwig And Eleonore, Grand Duke And Duchess Of Hesse
The Complete Wartime Correspondence of Tsar Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra: April 1914-March 1917
In the Steps of the Romanovs: Final Two Years of the Last Russian Imperial Family (1916-1918)
The Last Diary of Tsaritsa Alexandra
The Diary of Olga Romanov: Royal Witness to the Russian Revolution
Journal of a Russian Grand Duchess: Complete Annotated 1913 Diary of Olga Romanov, Eldest Daughter of the Last Tsar
Tatiana Romanov, Daughter of the Last Tsar: Diaries and Letters, 1913–1918
Maria Romanov: Third Daughter of the Last Tsar, Diaries and Letters, 1908–1918
1913 Diary of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna: Complete Tercentennial Journal of the Third Daughter of the Last Tsar
Maria and Anastasia: The Youngest Romanov Grand Duchesses In Their Own Words
Correspondence of the Russian Grand Duchesses: Letters of the Daughters of the Last Tsar
Michael Romanov: Brother of the Last Tsar Diaries and Letters, 1916-1918
Diaries and correspondence of other people
Russian journal of Lady Londonderry, 1836-37
Letters from Russia
The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy
Letters from St Petersburg: A Siamese Prince at the Court of the Last Tsar
The Romanovs Under House Arrest: From the 1917 Diary of a Palace Priest
Private Diary of Mathilde Kschessinska
A Countess in Limbo: Diaries in War & Revolution; Russia 1914-1920, France 1939-1947
Memoirs by the Romanovs
Once a Grand Duke
Always a Grand Duke
25 Chapters of My Life
Education of a Princess
A Princess in Exile
A Romanov Diary: The Autobiography of H.I.& R.H. Grand Duchess George
My life in Russia's service--then and now
Memories In The Marble Palace
Memoirs by other people
The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova
Lost Splendor
Memories of the Russian Court
My Mission to Russia and Other Diplomatic Memories
An Ambassador's Memoirs
The Real Tsaritsa
Thirteen Years at the Russian Court
The False Anastasia
Six Years at the Russian Court
Before the Storm
The Life and Tragedy of Alexandra Feodorovna Empress of Russia
Left Behind
At the Court of the Last Tsar
Memories of Russia 1916-1919
The Emperor Nicholas II: As I Knew Him
The Sokolov Investigation of the Alleged Murder of the Russian Imperial Family
The Russia That I Loved
Dancing in Petersburg: The Memoirs of Kschessinska
On the Estate: Memoirs of a Russian Lady before the Revolution
Theater Street
The Other Russia: The Experience of Exile
Russia Through Women's Eyes: Autobiographies from Tsarist Russia
The Fall of the Romanovs: Political Dreams and Personal Struggles in a Time of Revolution
Tommorow Will Come
Fanny Lear: Love and Scandal in Tsarist Russia
The Coronation of Tsar Nicholas II
Days of the Russian Revolution: Memoirs from the right, 1905-1917
The House by the Dvina: A Russian Childhood
Under Three Tsars
Last days at Tsarskoe Selo
Last Years of the Court at Tsarskoe Selo
The Real Romanovs
Biographies of the Romanovs and general topics concerning them
The Romanovs: Autocrats of All the Russias
The Romanovs: 1613-1918
The Romanovs
The Romanovs: Ruling Russia 1613-1917
Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia
The Tragic Dynasty: A History of the Romanovs
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
Romanov Autumn: Stories from the Last Century of Imperial Russia
The Romanovs, 1818–1959: Alexander II of Russia and His Family
Alexis, Tsar of all the Russias
Sophia: Regent of Russia, 1657-1704
Peter the Great: His Life and World
Peter the Great
Terrible Tsarinas: Five Russian Women in Power
Elizabeth and Catherine: Empresses of All the Russias
Catherine the Great
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Catherine the Great & Potemkin: the imperial love affair
Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power
Great Catherine: The Life of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
The Empress of Art: Catherine the Great and the Transformation of Russia
Alexander I: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon
Alexander I: Tsar of War and Peace
Alexander of Russia: Napoleon's Conqueror
Nicholas I and Official Nationality in Russia 1825 - 1855
Nicholas I: Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias
Becoming a Romanov. Grand Duchess Elena of Russia and her World
Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar
Katia: Wife Before God
Alexander III: His Life and Reign
Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna
Nicholas II: Emperor of All the Russias
Nicholas II: Last of the Tsars
The Last of the Tsars : Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution
The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II
King, Kaiser, Tsar: Three Royal Cousins Who Led The World To War
A Gathered Radiance: The Life of Alexandra Romanov, Russia's Last Empress
The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina of Russia
Alexandra
Alexandra: The Last Tsarina
Nicholas and Alexandra
Alix and Nicky: The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina
The Last Tsar & Tsarina
The Four Graces: Queen Victoria's Hessian Granddaughters
The Imperial Tea Party: Family, Politics and Betrayal: the Ill-Fated British and Russian Royal Alliance
From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847-1928
Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria and The Romanovs: Sixty Years of Mutual Distrust
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe
Imperial Requiem: Four Royal Women and the Fall of the Age of Empires
The Romanov Royal Martyrs: What Silence Could Not Conceal
The Romanovs: Family of Faith and Charity
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter
The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
The Fate of the Romanovs
The Murder of the Romanovs
The House of Special Purpose
The Murder of the Tsar
Alexei: Russia's Last Imperial Heir: A Chronicle of Tragedy
A Guarded Secret : Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra and Tsarevich Alexei's Hemophilia
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
The Grand Dukes
The Grand Dukes - Sons And Grandsons Of Russia's Tsars
The Other Grand Dukes: Sons and Grandsons of Russia's Grand Dukes
White Crow: The Life and Times of the Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov, 1859-1919
The Grand Duchesses: Daughters & Granddaughters of Russia's Tsars
Once a Grand Duchess: Xenia, Sister of Nicholas II
Michael and Natasha: The Life and Love of Michael II, the Last of the Romanov Tsars
The Last Grand Duchess: Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna
Olga Romanov: Russia's Last Grand Duchess
Ella: Princess, Saint and Martyr
Elizabeth, Grand Duchess of Russia
Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia: New Martyr of the Communist Yoke
Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna
Princess Victoria Melita
A Fatal Passion: The Story of the Uncrowned Last Empress of Russia
Gilded Prism: The Konstantinovichi Grand Dukes & The Last Years Of The Romanov Dynasty
Death of a Romanov Prince
A Poet Among the Romanovs: Prince Vladimir Paley
Princesses on the Wards: Royal Women in Nursing through Wars and Revolutions
The Romanovs: The Way It Was
Behind the Veil at the Russian Court
The Flight of the Romanovs: A Family Saga
Russia and Europe: Dynastic Ties
Biographies of other people
The Tsar's Doctor: The Life and Times of Sir James Wylie
The Romanovs & Mr Gibbes: The Story of the Englishman Who Taught the Children of the Last Tsar
An Englishman in the Court of the Tsar: The Spiritual Journey of Charles Syndney Gibbes
The Forgotten Tutor: John Epps and the Romanovs
The Rasputin File
Rasputin: The Untold Story
Rasputin: Rascal Master
Rasputin: The Biography
Rasputin: a Short Life
The Murder of Grigorii Rasputin: A Conspiracy That Brought Down the Russian Empire
The Man Who Killed Rasputin: Prince Felix Youssoupov and the Murder That Helped Bring Down the Russian Empire
The Princess of Siberia
Angel of Vengeance: The Girl Who Shot the Governor of St. Petersburg and Sparked the Age of Assassination
Imperial Dancer: Mathilde Kschessinska and the Romanovs
Diaghilev: A Life
Nijinsky: A Life of Genius and Madness
The Russian Album
Russian Blood
Tolstoy: A Russian Life
The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great's Russia
Katya and the Prince of Siam
The Defiant Life of Vera Figner: Surviving the Russian Revolution
Pushkin: A Biography
Photoalbums, cofee-table books
The Camera and the Tsars: The Romanov Family in Photographs
The Romanov Family Album
Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra
The Romanovs: Love, Power and Tragedy
The Regalia of the Russian Empire
The Sunset of the Romanov Dynasty
The Summer Palaces of the Romanovs: Treasures from Tsarskoye Selo
Royal Russia: The Private Albums of the Russian Imperial Family
Russia: Art, Royalty and the Romanovs
Nicholas II: The Last Tsar
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Family Albums
The Last Tsar
Romanovs Revisited
The Private World of the Last Tsar: In the Photographs and Notes of General Count Alexander Grabbe
The Jewel Album of Tsar Nicholas II: A Collection of Private Photographs of the Russian Imperial Family
Anastasia's Album
Lost Tales: Stories for the Tsar's Children
The Last Courts of Europe: Royal Family Album 1860-1914
Dear Ellen (Royal Europe Through the Photo Albums of Grand Duchess Helen Vladimirovna of Russia)
Royal Gatherings (Who is in the Picture? Volume 1: 1859-1914)
Jewels of the Tsars: The Romanovs and Imperial Russia
Jewels from Imperial St. Petersburg
Postcards from the Russian Revolution
Before the Revolution: A View of Russia Under the Last Czar
Twilight of the Romanovs: A Photographic Odyssey Across Imperial Russia
The Romanov Legacy: The Palaces of St. Petersburg
Moscow: Splendours of the Romanovs
Fabergé, Lost and Found: The Recently Discovered Jewelry Designs from the St. Petersburg Archives
Art of Fabergé
Faberge: Treasures of Imperial Russia
Artistic Luxury: Fabergé, Tiffany, Lalique
Russian Imperial Style
A Smolny Album: Glimpses into Life at the Imperial Educational Society of Noble Maidens
Konstantin Makovsky: The Tsar’s Painter in America and Paris
Anna Pavlova: Twentieth Century Ballerina
Tamara Karsavina: Diaghilev's Ballerina
General history and specific events
Russian Chronicles
Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty
The Court of Russia in the Nineteenth Century; Volume 1
The Court of Russia in the Nineteenth Century; Volume 2
The Crimean War: A History
Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience
The Conquest of a Continent: Siberia and the Russians
Red Fortress: History and Illusion in the Kremlin
Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia
St Petersburg: Three Centuries of Murderous Desire
The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia's Drift to Revolution 1825-1917
Society and lifestyle
Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia
Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia: The Pleasure and the Power
Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century
A Bride for the Tsar: Bride-Shows and Marriage Politics in Early Modern Russia
Origins of the Russian Intelligentsia: The Eighteenth-Century Nobility
The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture
The Court of the Last Tsar: Pomp, Power and Pageantry in the Reign of Nicholas II
Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy, Vol. 1
Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy, Vol. 2
Pavlovsk : The Life of a Russian Palace
Entertaining Tsarist Russia: Tales, Songs, Plays, Movies, Jokes, Ads, and Images from Russian Urban Life, 1779-1917
A Social History of the Russian Empire, 1650-1825
Slavophile Empire: Imperial Russia's Illiberal Path
Russia at Play
Women In Russian History: From The Tenth To The Twentieth Century
St. Petersburg: A Cultural History
Russian Peasant Women
Romanov Riches: Russian Writers and Artists Under the Tsars
The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
Family in Imperial Russia
Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia
Imperial Crimea: Estates, Enchantments and the Last of the Romanovs
Russia on the Eve of Modernity: Popular Religion and Traditional Culture Under the Last Tsars
The Martha-Mary Convent: and Rule of St. Elizabeth the New Martyr
The Way of a Pilgrim
Icon and Devotion: Sacred Spaces in Imperial Russia
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
Valse Des Fleurs: A Day in St. Petersburg in 1868
Murder Most Russian: True Crime and Punishment in Late Imperial Russia
What Life Was Like in the Time of War and Peace: Imperial Russia, AD 1696-1917
When Miss Emmie Was in Russia: English Governesses Before, During and After the October Revolution
From Cradle to Crown: British Nannies and Governesses at the World's Royal Courts
What Became Peters Dream: Court Culture in the Reign of Nicholas II
Faberge's Eggs: The Extraordinary Story of the Masterpieces That Outlived an Empire
Beauty in Exile: The Artists, Models, and Nobility who Fled the Russian Revolution and Influenced the World of Fashion
Revolution and its general aftermath
Spies and Commissars: The Early Years of the Russian Revolution
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917
The Russian Court at Sea: The Voyage of HMS Marlborough
Former People: The Final Days of the Russian Aristocracy
The Downfall of Russia
Doomsday 1917: The Destruction of Russia's Ruling Class
Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, Russia, 1917
To Free the Romanovs: Royal Kinship and Betrayal in Europe 1917-1919
The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family
Students, Love, Cheka and Death
Red Victory: A History of the Russian Civil War, 1918-1921
Conspirator: Lenin in Exile
Hidden Treasures of the Romanovs
Romanoff Gold: The Lost Fortunes of the Tsars
Russia Abroad: Prague and the Russian Diaspora, 1918–1938
Bread of Exile
The Many Deaths of Tsar Nicholas II: Relics, Remains and the Romanovs
Saving The Tsars' Palaces
Catalogues
Kejserinde Dagmar
Nicholas And Alexandra: The Last Tsar And Tsarina
Russian Splendor: Sumptuous Fashions of the Russian Court
At The Russian Court: Palace And Protocol In The 19th Century
History of Russian Costume from the Eleventh to the Twentieth Century
Collections of the Romanovs: European Arts from the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
Magnificence of the Tsars: Ceremonial Men's Dress of the Russian Imperial Court, 1721-1917
Conspiracy and pretenders
Imperial Legend: The Mysterious Disappearance of Tsar Alexander I
The File on the Tsar
The Escape of Alexei, Son of Tsar Nicholas II: What Happened the Night the Romanov Family Was Executed
The Romanov Conspiracies
I am Anastasia; The Autobiography of the Grand Duchess of Russia.
The Resurrection of the Romanovs: Anastasia, Anna Anderson, and the World's Greatest Royal Mystery
A Romanov Fantasy: Life at the Court of Anna Anderson
The Secret Plot to Save the Tsar: The Truth Behind the Romanov Mystery
The Quest for Anastasia: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Romanovs
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Princesse Tatiana Youssoupov (Ioussoupov, Youssoupoff ) - Portrait of Princess Tatiana Yusupova (1828-1879), by Winterhalter, Franz Xavier (1805-1873). Oil on canvas, c. 1858. Dimension : 148x104 cm. State Hermitage, St. Petersburg , Winterhalter, Franz Xaver (1805-73) / State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia / Photo © Fine Art Images / Bridgeman Images
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Princess Zenaida Youssoupoff in costume for a ball in May 1888.
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Alexandra Feodorovna with her daughters and officers, December 1913 - January 1914
Left to right: Pavel Voronov, Tatiana Nikolaevna, Alexandra Feodorovna, Maria Nikolaevna, Olga Nikolaevna, Nikolai Pavlovich Sablin, Anastasia Nikolaevna
“Dear Onor,
My tenderest thanks for your dear letter and the many beautiful Christmas presents you sent us. - I can just imagine how the children must have been beaming with joy around the Christmas tree, as they are still of an age to be enchanted by the lights. - Our most precious gift has been to see Alexei up and walking. Thank God one hardly notices he walks with a limp, he is very cheerful and has grown a lot. He also was at the Soldiers’ Tree twice and was able to help out; and he enjoyed being able to stomp around in the snow. Marie has grown a lot, too, and she will soon be taller than Olga. -
Today there was a Christmas party at my nursery school and they distributed presents - tomorrow we will have the officers’ tree. - In the Crimea I sent them to four hospitals, usually for lung patients, and they showed real interest, talking to everybody. - You asked who succeeded poor Dedioulin. - Nicky has just appointed General Voeikov. He was Commander of the Hussars here, was in the Chevalier Guards for many years, is a son-in-law of Frederiksz. - I think Nicky made a good choice, as he knows him very well.
Tatiana Konstantinovna wrote that they had breakfast on her balcony in the Crimea at Christmas - but here we have thick snow and 18° of frost. How are poor Thea and your other siblings? Give them my best wishes, won’t you? 0 The illness of little Emmy Ehrhardt is too sad - there’s no hope any more - I am so very sorry for her parents. - Sister-in-law Olga visits us often and is like a sister to our children, and they are very attached to her. - Today Kostia came for breakfast, Miechen and Kiryll for tea and Dmitri for dinner. - Does Marietta meet your satisfaction, is she pleasant to have around the house? I only really knew her as a child as I have been away from home for 19 years now.
The rose picture you sent me as a present is just perfect and I only wish my children could have had tuition like the Coburg cousins. - What can I tell you? Sonia is cheerful as always, off to town to see the Youssoupovs all the time, and is happy in her new, large rooms. Alexei and Mr Gilliard are now living in her old ones. Count Benkendorf spent the whole of the autumn abroad because of his wife, and now she appears to be gradually losing her sight - the result of kidney disease like Kostia’s mother. -
Tatiana’s hair has grown nice and thick, which means she no longer has to wear a wig; all four are very busy the whole time crocheting or embroidering, for which Tatiana and Marie have a particular talent.
But now I must end as I still have a lot of writing to do. May God protect you all, my dears. With fondest love I remain your loving sister Alix.”
- Alexandra to Eleonore, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine, 27th December 1913/9th January 1914
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Mellerio dits Meller
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Editions Télémaque, Paris 2013, 448 pages couleurs, plus de 370 illustrations et documents inédits, ISBN : 9782753301979
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“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”
― L.M. Montgomery
Ildar Youssoupov (1972 - ) Cafe Danton
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“Lover no. 1″ (2007) by Kazakh artist Ildar Youssoupov (*1972).
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