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Nicholas II with his wife Alexandra and two eldest daughters.

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Alexandra with Olga, Tatiana and Alexei on the Standart.

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OTMA 1902

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N.p Sablin with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov on the Standart, 1912.

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Grand Duchess Olga and Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia

Russian vintage postcard

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Olga, Tatiana, and Anastasia with their dolls.

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Tatiana, Anastasia, Maria and Olga

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Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanov holding her little sister Marie's hand in 1901.

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Tsar Nicholas II holding his only son - Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov in 1905.

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The Photo vs Behind the Scenes

Photo 1: Grand Duchesses Maria and Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia with Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia, pushing maternal first cousin Prince Georg Donatus of Hesse and By Rhine in a cart, Wolfsgarten 1910

Photo 2: the same people on the left along a nanny or governess, maybe Prince Heinrich of Prussia standing on the stairs, and Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia playing with Prince Ludwig of Hesse and By Rhine, Wolfsgarten 1910

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Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanov 1912.

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Olga and Maria***

Olga and Tatiana, 1908.

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A French writer recalls meeting the Romanov sisters

In 1916, Amelie de Nery, a French journalist and writer, was invited to have a private audience with Tsarina Alexandra. During this meeting, she was introduced to the four Grand Duchesses by the Tsarina, who:

With a charming smile she took my hand and told me she was very happy to receive a representative of the women of France, who, like their sisters in Russia, had so bravely borne their burden of anxiety during this cruel war. 'Let me introduce you to my daughters,' she said as soon as I thanked her for granting me an audience. 'This is Tatiana.' Grand Duchess Tatiana also shook hands with me and said she was very much interested in meeting a woman journalist for the first time. She is a beautiful girl, with big blue eyes, full of life, illuminating her fair, young face. At this moment the door opened and a young girl, also in the garb of a sister of mercy, entered the room. 'And here is Olga, my little French daughter' said the czarina. Grand duchess Olga is no less beautiful and charming than her younger sister, but she is more calm and there is something of the serenity of the mystic about her. As the czarina referred to her stay in Paris, it seemed to me as if a dreamy expression came into the daughter's dark soulful eyes. ‘Colonel de Vitchkowsky will introduce you to my two other daughters,' said the czarina, as she parted from me to take up her duties in the operating room; and once more I felt the firm grip of her hand. The two little grand duchesses, Marie and Anastasia, were in the convalescent ward. I found that both, wearing plain white dresses and red hats, standing close to an officer who, seated on the window sill, was playing the balalaika. They both shook hands with me and the music went on.

SOURCE: El Paso Herald newspaper, 6 Jan 1916 -- this piece seems to have been part of a press release and was published in multiple newspapers

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Olga, Maria, Tatiana and Anastasia on the Standart.

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Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra dress as Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and his first wife Tsaritsa Maria Miloslavskaya for the 1903 costume ball.