#Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia

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Happy 127th birthday to Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia! June 10th 1897 🤍

The second bright happy day in our family: at 10.40 in the morning the Lord blessed us with a daughter-Tatiana. Poor Alix suffered all night without shutting her eyes for a moment, and at 8 o'clock went downstairs to Amama's bedroom. Thank God this time it all went quickly and safety, and I did not feel nervously exhausted. Towards one o'clock the little one was bathed and Yanyshev read some prayers. Mama arrived with Ksenia; we had lunch together. At 4 o'clock there was a Te Deum. Tatiana weighs 8 3/4 pounds and is 54 centimeters long. Our eldest is very funny with her. Read and wrote telegrams. - Diary of Tsar Nicholas II, June 10th 1897

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Grand Duchesse Anastasia, Olga, Tatiana and Maria

"Taken on board the "New Zealand" on Maria's 15th birthday, 14 June 1914. Photo from Grand Duchess Olga's album GARF 673-1-204 No. 28"

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BORN ON THIS DAY:

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova; 10 June [O.S. 29 May] 1897– 17 July 1918) was the second daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last monarch of Russia, and Tsarina Alexandra.

She was born at Peterhof Palace, near Saint Petersburg. She was the younger sister of Grand Duchess Olga and the elder sister of Grand Duchess Maria, Grand Duchess Anastasia, and Tsarevich Alexei.

She was considered to be the most beautiful of all her sisters and the most aristocratic in appearance.

She was known amongst her siblings as "the governess" for her domineering but also maternal ways.

Tatiana was the closest of all the children to her mother, often spending many hours reading to her.

During World War I, she chaired many charitable committees and trained to become a nurse, along with her older sister, Grand Duchess Olga.

She tended to wounded soldiers on the grounds of Tsarskoye Selo from 1914 to 1917. Her time as a nurse came to an end with her family's arrest in 1917 after the first Russian Revolution.

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Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia

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Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia was the second daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last monarch of Russia, and of Tsarina Alexandra. She was born at Pe...

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

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Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova in captivity in Tsarskoe Selo, Russia, April 1917. 💔💘

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“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.

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Tatiana Nikolaevna and Maria Nikolaevna.

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Grand Duchess Olga and Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia

Russian vintage postcard

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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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Formal photographs of the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia. Taken on 11 August 1916 by Alexander Funk, these would become the last formal photographs the sisters would ever sit for. In less than two years their lives would cruelly come to an end.

Anastasia, Olga, Maria and Tatiana

Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia

Olga

Anastasia

Maria and Olga

Tatiana

Anastasia

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ミ★ ~ OTMAA through the years ~ ★彡

Part one: Babies; Age newborn - 1yo

Olga: Nov. 1895 - Nov. 1896

Tatiana: June 1897 - June 1897

Maria: June 1899 - June 1898

Anastasia: June 1901 - June 1902

Alexei: August 1904 - August 1905

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Russia! My astonished child's eyes see huge palaces, beautiful parks, fountains, gardens, amazing gatherings of relatives, military parades, religious services in churches glittering with gold, jewels so breathtaking you can hardly believe they are real [... ] My eyes also see long corridors, vestibules, and halls, of a size beyond compare, opening one into another, and our feet trotting timidly over wide stretches of floors, so unbounded and polished, that we seemed to walk on ice. And everywhere, a very characteristic smell: a mixture of turpentine, Russian leather and cigarette smoke, with a fragrance, unique in its own way, that distinguished the imperial palaces. Imperial is the right word, fantastic, like in fairy tales [...] every superlative is at its place in that Russia of the Tsars, that Russia full of splendour, which today is no more...

－ Queen Marie of Romania, “Story of My Life”

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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.