#Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna

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Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia of Russia, 1914.

[adini-nikolaevna]

“She’s a Grand Duchess from head to toe, so aristocratic and regal. Her face is pale matte, only the cheeks are slightly rosy, as if pink satin is trying to escape from just under her thin skin. Her profile is flawlessly beautiful, as if cut from marble by a great artist. The widely set eyes provide uniqueness and originality to her face. The nurse’s Red Cross kerchief is more flattering to her than to her sisters. She laughs more rarely than her sisters. Her face sometimes has a focused and stern expression. In those moments she looks like her mother. On the pale outlines of her face are the traces of deep thoughts and sometimes even sadness. Without any words I feel that she is special, different from her sisters, despite their common traits of kindness and friendliness. I feel hers—is a wholly secluded and unique world […]. If, as an artist, I wanted to paint a portrait of a Sister of Mercy as she would ideally appear, all I would have to do is paint a portrait of the Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna. I would not even have to paint it, but only to point to the photograph of her always hanging over my bed, and say, ‘That’s a nurse.’

- from the memoirs of Sofia Ofrosimova, who had been a nurse at the palace infirmary during World War I, on Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia. Translated by Helen Azar.

[teatimeatwinterpalace]

‘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)

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

Cousins! 🤍

Princess Irina Alexandrovna, Princess Margaret of Denmark, Grand Duchesses Olga Nikolaevna, and Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna, 1899.

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

~ ♡ The Two Tatiana’s ♡ ~

Tatiana Konstantinovna ~ 1890-1979

The 1st daughter of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, a third-cousin of Tsar Nicholas II. She was a very quiet child who reportedly had the talent for playing the piano. In 1911 she married Prince Bagration of Mukhrani who was serving in the Russian Imperial Guards and had two children (Teimuraz and Natalia) before he sadly perished in WWI. After this she escaped the revolution and eventually joined a nunnery before she died in 1979.

Tatiana Nikolaevna ~ 1897-1918

The second child of Tsar Nicholas II , Tatiana grew up surrounded in a close knit family who often took vacations to various places in Russia. She was a very well behaved child and was very studious and confident. She was known to be very beautiful and was often called “The Governess” by her 4 siblings for her organized ways. At the start of WWI she became a nurse and was very good in the operating rooms. During the revolution she was under house arrest with her family and eventually was executed by the Bolsheviks at the age of 21.

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[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

~ 🤍 Royal Parallels 🤍 ~

❧ Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia look out of the same window at Wolgsgarten hunting lodge, Darmstadt, 4 years apart. 1899 vs 1903 ☙

[royal-confessions]

“Tilda Swinton dressed up as a nurse in the film ”War Requiem” reminded me so much of Grand Duchess Tatiana when she nursed soldiers during WW1.” - Submitted by Anonymous

[loiladadiani]

Princess Irina Alexandrovna and her OTMA Cousins

It makes sense that Olga and Tatiana would be closest to Irina because of their ages. The cousins saw each other and wrote to each other. Irina's parents spent a lot of time out of Russia (in the South of France or traveling through Italy.) I have read that Olga and Tatiana attended Irina's wedding with their parents. Nicholas gave Irina away. After that, I do not know how frequently they saw each other; there are comments here and there regarding them metting at some of their war related volunteer activitities. Olga strongly disapproved of the fact that Felix was not part of the war effort. There are no pictures of Olga or Tatiana with Bebe, who was born on 1915. That seems so strange to me, because OTMA loved children.

My impression is that the cousins were not as close as they could have been, and I don't know how much their parents had to do with that. Xenia's sons were thought to be too wild to play with Alexis who had his very real limitations. Xenia and Sandro were having marital problems and I am sure that the Empress was not interested in her daughters finding out about that mess. And once Yusupov entered the picture, I am sure the distance between the cousins grew.

[leonisandmurex]

OLGA. TATIANA. MARIA. ANASTASIA.

Happy 1st blogversary @foreverinthepagesofhistoryy ♡

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olga, tatiana, maria & anastasia in the aristocats | requested by @foreverinthepagesofhistory

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Two German postcards, depicting Grand Duchesses Olga (1895-1918) and Tatiana (1897-1918) Nikolaevna of Russia in 1897.

[thyramalie]

♛ ROYAL LOOKALIKES

Princess Astrid of Sweden (1905 – 1935), the future Queen consort of the Belgians and Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna (1897 – 1918).

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On this day 125 years ago, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna was born. She was the seocnd daughter of Nikolai II of Russia and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.

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Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna as a baby! 💞🧸

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Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, and Maria Nikolaevna posing for some unofficial portraits, Tsarskoe Selo (?) 1901