#Diaries

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Trapeze: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1947-1955

[flowerytale]

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1944–1947

[petaltexturedskies]

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. IV: 1944-1947

[austinkleon]

North Dakota woman, 100, has written in her diary every day for 90 years: ‘No excuse for me not to’ - The Washington Post

Her father gave her a diary a week before her 11th birthday. She hasn't missed a single day of writing since her first entry on Jan. 1 1936.

“I never write in print letters — it’s always in cursive,” Riski said. “And every night, when I finish writing, I always look back one year to see what I was doing the year before.”

 “No matter where you are in life, it’s fun to write down what you are doing, so you can look back. It doesn’t take much time every day, and it’s just a wonderful habit to get into. Ninety years is a long time, but I’m happy that I did it.”

[diaries-of-despair]

— August 5, 1966 / Susan Sontag, Journals and Notebooks

[derangedrhythms]

I know the horror of primal feelings, obsessions.

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath — 29th September 1959

[kasperskarnival]

aphmau art in the year of our lord

[huellitaa]

"you're so weird!" and yet, somehow, i'm happier than you'll ever be

[shartfinz]

Aphmau

[soracities]

To love — is to see a person as God intended him and his parents failed to make him.

Marina Tsvetaeva, from Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922 (trans. Jamey Gambrell)

[otmaaromanovas]

Tsarina Alexandra posing in Tsar Nicholas II's uniform, 1896

The young Tsarina posing in her husband's Preobrazhensky uniform, with a cigarette.

The Tsar was coronated in May 1896 wearing the uniform of the Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment (slide 6), of which Nicholas II was a colonel, founded in 1690 by Tsar Peter (Pyotr) I. The uniform, alongside the coronation dress worn by Alexandra, have survived and have been beautifully preserved.

The photographs are from Tsar Nicholas’s 1896 diary preserved by GARF, and shared by George Hawkins in ‘Alexandra Feodorovna: Diaries and Correspondence: Volume III The Young Empress 1895 - 1905’

An illustration of Nicholas II wearing the Preobrazhensky uniform, published in the French publication Le monde illustré in 1901

Sources

����📷 'A series of photos of Alexandra dressed in Nicholas's Preobrazhensky uniform, from Nicholas's 1896 diary. GARF 601-1-236' in Alexandra Feodorovna: Diaries and Correspondence: Volume III The Young Empress 1895 - 1905, translated by George Hawkins, (Independently published, 2024), pp. 37-38 — please credit this if you share on social media

📷 V. von Mengden, 'The Coronation Procession of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia' (14 May 1896), platinum print, 18.0 x 23.0 cm, © Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2025 | Royal Collection Trust

📷 Wikipedia / Shakko (Sofia Bagdasarova), 'Nicholas II's coronation uniform', (2013), Wikipedia Commons

📷 Anonymous, 'Illustration of Nicholas II', (1901), from Le monde illustré

[mournfulroses]

Anaïs Nin, from a diary entry featured in Linotte: The Early Diary Of Anaïs Nin (1914-1920)

[flowerytale]

The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1920–1923

[petaltexturedskies]

Virginia Woolf from a diary entry wr. c. February 1920 in The Complete Works of Virginia Woolf

[tendermimi]

— Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923