#alexandra stepanova

[certainkoalawombat]

Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Evgenia Medvedeva, Alexandra Stepanova, Evgenia Tatasova, Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva

[elegantballetalk]

Today's watch:

Figure skating on Lake Baikal

Not strictly ballet related, but I've always thought of Ballet, Figure Skating and Rhythmic Gymnastics as sister sports.

For more:

[wintrydapples]

JGP starts tomorrow! Looking at orange costumes today. Orange is generally not a color I like (except on leaves and cats) but these are the ones I love (like Wakaba’s) or at least tolerate (like Alexa’s).

[misslacklamb]

An Italian cheese company was a sponsor of a figure skating competition. The medalists all got cheese as gifts. The photos are delightful!

[patricedumonde]

This is perhaps my favorite video to exist on youtube! I watch it way too often lol. These students were so lucky to share a stage with the dancers from Bolshoi.

It is so difficult to even choose favorite dancers in this performance. I would say Xenia Zhiganshina and Yulia Stepanova stood out for me though. Alyona Kovalyova danced my favorite variation, and I think she did a marvelous job here. I thought it was breath-taking. She's so tall though that in the end when she does the tour jete, it low key looked like she tripped lol. I know it's part of the choreography but my heart still skipped a beat. This performance is my Avengers Endgame haha.

Ooh, also. In the mazurka, look at how tiny the 2023 graduates are. Time flies. I still find it unacceptable that I'm now older than some prima ballerinas. Anyway, take a break for an hour and make sure to watch this the whole way through! I can also compile a playlist of the variations if anyone's interested. Oscar Frame 2017 graduate (variation from the ballet Le Conservatorie, music by H.S.Paulli) Eleonora Sevenard 2017 graduate (variation from the ballet Trilby, music by Y.Gerber) Alyona Kovalyova 2016 graduate (variation from the ballet Le Roi Candaule, music by C.Pugni) Xenia Zhiganshina 2014 graduate (variation from the ballet Gretna Green, music by E.Guiraud) Olga Smirnova 2011 graduate (variation from the ballet Paquita, music by L.Minkus) Mikhail Lobukhin 2002 graduate (variation from the ballet Don Quixote, music by L.Minkus) Yulia Stepanova 2009 graduate (variation from the ballet The Little Humpbacked Horse, music by C.Pugni) Evgenia Obraztsova 2002 graduate (variation from the ballet Le Pavillon d’Armide, music by N.Tcherepnin) Denis Rodkin (variation from the ballet La Source, music by R.Drigo) Svetlana Zakharova 1996 graduate (variation from the ballet La Sylphide, music by R.Drigo)

[otmaaromanovas]

105 years ago, on the night of 16/17 July 1918, the Romanov family and their attendants were killed in Ekaterinburg.

Pierre Gilliard, the beloved tutor of the imperial children, was one of the first people to enter the Ipatiev House after the murders. As part of the Sokolov Investigation into the crime and the subsequent media frenzy, he gave these statements:

“…the stoves; they were all full of various burned articles. I recognised a considerable number of burned things such as tooth- and hair-brushes, pins and a number of small things bearing the initials: "A. F." [Alexandra Feodorovna.]”

"I then went to the lower storey, the greater part of which was a basement. I entered with intense emotion the room in which, perhaps, they had died. Its aspect was most sinister. Daylight came in through a window with iron bars across it. The walls and the floor bore marks of bullets and bayonet thrusts. It was quite obvious that a dreadful crime had been committed there, and that several people had been killed.  In my despair believed that the Emperor had perished, and, that being the case, I could not believe the Empress had survived him… Yes, it was quite possible that they had both been killed. And the children? Had they also been massacred? I could not believe it. The idea was too horrible. And yet everything seemed to prove that the victims had been numerous."

Nicholas II Alexandrovich Romanov (1868-1918) Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova (1872-1918) Olga Nikolaevna Romanova (1895-1918) Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova (1897-1918) Maria Nikolaevna Romanova (1899-1918) Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova (1901-1918) Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov (1904-1918) Dr. Evgeny Sergeievich Botkin (1865-1918) Anna Stepanova Demidova (1878-1918) Ivan Mikhailovich Kharitonov (1872-1918) Alexei Aloise Egorovich Trupp (1856-1918) Ortipo (1914-1918) Jimmy (1915-1918)

SOURCES: The Last Days of the Romanovs, Telberg, Wilton, Sokolov. The Crime of Ekaterinburg, Illustrated London News

[tikitania]

I have compiled a list of current principals, soloists, coorypheres of the mariinsky and bolshoi, (including Olga Smirnova and Alina Somova), but excluding Svetlana Zakharova, who graduated from Yelena Yevteyeva class, but only spent that one final year at VBA. Just a few are missing, because i was not sure which class they were graduating from.

Lyudmila Safronova-Nadezhda Batoeva, Yulia Stepanova, Alina Somova. Marina Vasilieva-Olesya Novikova, Viktoria Tereshkina, Evgenia Obraztsova, Svetlana Savelieva, Elena Yevseyeva, Yana Selina. Tatiana Udalenkova-Renata Shakirova, Eleonora Sevenard, Vlada Borodulina. Lyudmila Kovaleva-Diana Vishneva, Olga Smirnova, Maria Khoreva, Kristina Shapran, Maria Bulanova, Maria Koshkaryova, Anastasia Lukina, Anastasia Nuikina, Yuliana Chereshkevich, Daria Ionova, Viktoria Krasnokutskaya, Bíborka Lendvai, Yevgenia Savkina. Yulia Kasenkova-Alyona Kovalyova, Maria Ilyushkina, Daria Kulikova. Irina Sitnikova-Alexandra Khiteyeva, Shamala Guseinova, Anastasia Nikitina. Lyubov Kunakova-Anastasia Kolegova, Tatiana Tkachenko. Inna Zubkovskaya-Yekaterina Osmolkina. Nina Sakhnovskaya-Alexandra Iosifidi. Tatiana Terekhova-Valeria Martynyuk. Natalia Dudinskaya- Elena Bazhenova. Maria Gribanova-Maria Chernyvskaya. Irina Zhelonkina-Alisa Barinova.

It’s so interesting to see this laid out like this. Thank you! Kovaleva has had the longest tenure (I think!) so it’s no surprise that her roster is long! Thanks for sharing.

And if we were to go beyond these two theaters, the list would be very long!

[mariaspir]

I have compiled a list of current principals, soloists, coorypheres of the mariinsky and bolshoi, (including Olga Smirnova and Alina Somova), but excluding Svetlana Zakharova, who graduated from Yelena Yevteyeva class, but only spent that one final year at VBA. Just a few are missing, because i was not sure which class they were graduating from.

Lyudmila Safronova-Nadezhda Batoeva, Yulia Stepanova, Alina Somova. Marina Vasilieva-Olesya Novikova, Viktoria Tereshkina, Evgenia Obraztsova, Svetlana Savelieva, Elena Yevseyeva, Yana Selina. Tatiana Udalenkova-Renata Shakirova, Eleonora Sevenard, Vlada Borodulina. Lyudmila Kovaleva-Diana Vishneva, Olga Smirnova, Maria Khoreva, Kristina Shapran, Maria Bulanova, Maria Koshkaryova, Anastasia Lukina, Anastasia Nuikina, Yuliana Chereshkevich, Daria Ionova, Viktoria Krasnokutskaya, Bíborka Lendvai, Yevgenia Savkina. Yulia Kasenkova-Alyona Kovalyova, Maria Ilyushkina, Daria Kulikova. Irina Sitnikova-Alexandra Khiteyeva, Shamala Guseinova, Anastasia Nikitina. Lyubov Kunakova-Anastasia Kolegova, Tatiana Tkachenko. Inna Zubkovskaya-Yekaterina Osmolkina. Nina Sakhnovskaya-Alexandra Iosifidi. Tatiana Terekhova-Valeria Martynyuk. Natalia Dudinskaya- Elena Bazhenova. Maria Gribanova-Maria Chernyvskaya. Irina Zhelonkina-Alisa Barinova.

I didn't know Kunankova taught in VBA. She's currently a coach in Mariinsky, I know Tereshkina, Evseeva, Illiushkina, Savelieva, Bespalova are some of her students. It was on the performance in her honour that Svetlana danced the Lilac Fairy for the first time.

Maria Gribanova does not get enough credit. She mainly teaches middle classes, I see her most in grades 4 to 6, and usually it's someone else after that. All her students have very solid technique, and she cares for everyone for what I can tell. Every student gains something in her class.

Thank you for this list 💜

[tidemoonchild]

Updated FCs

I made some decisions regarding Katya's and Maggie's FCs. That's why I decided to make a new post (old one is here (x))

Katya Rogers:

Main: Red Widow Verse: Where she grew up under HYDRA and the Red Room. Her name in this verse is Yekaterina "Katya" Stepanova Novikova which was changed to Katerina "Katya/Kat" Stevie Rogers after defecting.

Sadie Sink Sophie Turner Rose Leslie

AU: Lady Liberty Verse: Where Steve finds her as an infant and gets to raise her. In this verse her name is Katherine "Katie/Kat" Sarah Rogers. With her ability to change her hair color at will she decided to change her color to blonde to look more like Steve and to hide herself from HYDRA who is looking for her.

McKenna Grace Kirsten Dunst

Secondary: Will be used for both verses, especially in the Lady Liberty verse, where she is the main FC for teen Katie.

Dakota Fanning

Maggie McCoy:

Live Action:

Teagan Croft India Eisley Alexandra Daddario

Comic/Animation:

Raven/Rachel Roth Pouder/Jinx

[nextlevelstupidity]

Russian Figure Skating Fed has named Alexandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin for the ice dance Olympic qualification competitions, Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Galliamov for the pairs competition, and Adelia Petrosian for the women’s singles skating. The decision on the Russian male candidate for the qualifying competition will be made based on the results of the Russian Grand Prix Final in Krasnoyarsk.

[figurelifeflirt]

2022 Euros entry #32

Free dance

Guignard/Fabbri(ITA)

Thoughts: I don’t know if this counts as a crescendo ending but I think that’s my main issue with this program.

Stepanova/Bukin

Thoughts: I think this is the first outfit from Alexandra in a while that I’m just not a fan of

Sinistina/Katsalapov(RUS)

Thoughts: well done. I also love what Victoria did with her hair.

2022 Ice Lab International entry #1

Junior women short program

Nikola Fomchenkova(LAT)

Thoughts: she took a minute to get used to her music. But to be fair, this is a difficult song.

[elegantballetalk]

I have compiled a list of principals, soloists, coorypheres of the mariinsky and bolshoi, (including Olga Smirnova and Alina Somova), but excluding Svetlana Zakharova, who graduated from Yelena Yevteyeva class, but only spent that one final year at VBA. Just a few are missing, because i was not sure which class they were graduating from. Lyudmila Safronova-Nadezhda Batoeva, Yulia Stepanova, Alina Somova. Marina Vasilieva-Olesya Novikova, Viktoria Tereshkina, Evgenia Obraztsova, Svetlana Savelieva, Elena Yevseyeva, Yana Selina. Tatiana Udalenkova-Renata Shakirova, Eleonora Sevenard, Vlada Borodulina. Lyudmila Kovaleva-Diana Vishneva, Olga Smirnova, Maria Khoreva, Kristina Shapran, Maria Bulanova, Maria Koshkaryova, Anastasia Lukina, Anastasia Nuikina, Yuliana Chereshkevich, Daria Ionova, Viktoria Krasnokutskaya, Bíborka Lendvai, Yevgenia Savkina. Yulia Kasenkova-Alyona Kovalyova, Maria Ilyushkina, Daria Kulikova. Irina Sitnikova-Alexandra Khiteyeva, Shamala Guseinova, Anastasia Nikitina Lyubov Kunakova-Anastasia Kolegova, Tatiana Tkachenko. Inna Zubkovskaya-Yekaterina Osmolkina. Nina Sakhnovskaya-Alexandra Iosifidi. Tatiana Terekhova-Valeria Martynyuk. Natalia Dudinskaya- Elena Bazhenova. Maria Gribanova-Maria Chernyvskaya. Irina Zhelonkina-Alisa Barinova.

What a magical list of talented people!

Of course, Kovaleva seems to be the teacher with the most names, but I have to admit, I always seem to gravitate toward Marina Vasilieva's students the most. And, of course, this list does not account for how long the teachers have been teaching or for teachers of the past.

It would also be very interesting to see if there is a common thread of people who were these students' teachers in the years prior to the graduation years. I think graduating teachers get too much credit! Just kidding, but for example, Maria Gribanova usually teaches younger kids, while Kovaleva only teaches older ones. It would be interesting to compile a massive Excel spreadsheet that goes way back through the years and work out which combination of teachers produces the most successful students.

[wanderlustinwonderland18]

Alexandra Stepanova & Ivan Bukin

2022 European Championships - Free Dance

[ohtheseskaters]

[patricedumonde]

I have compiled a list of current principals, soloists, coorypheres of the mariinsky and bolshoi, (including Olga Smirnova and Alina Somova), but excluding Svetlana Zakharova, who graduated from Yelena Yevteyeva class, but only spent that one final year at VBA. Just a few are missing, because i was not sure which class they were graduating from.

Lyudmila Safronova-Nadezhda Batoeva, Yulia Stepanova, Alina Somova. Marina Vasilieva-Olesya Novikova, Viktoria Tereshkina, Evgenia Obraztsova, Svetlana Savelieva, Elena Yevseyeva, Yana Selina. Tatiana Udalenkova-Renata Shakirova, Eleonora Sevenard, Vlada Borodulina. Lyudmila Kovaleva-Diana Vishneva, Olga Smirnova, Maria Khoreva, Kristina Shapran, Maria Bulanova, Maria Koshkaryova, Anastasia Lukina, Anastasia Nuikina, Yuliana Chereshkevich, Daria Ionova, Viktoria Krasnokutskaya, Bíborka Lendvai, Yevgenia Savkina. Yulia Kasenkova-Alyona Kovalyova, Maria Ilyushkina, Daria Kulikova. Irina Sitnikova-Alexandra Khiteyeva, Shamala Guseinova, Anastasia Nikitina. Lyubov Kunakova-Anastasia Kolegova, Tatiana Tkachenko. Inna Zubkovskaya-Yekaterina Osmolkina. Nina Sakhnovskaya-Alexandra Iosifidi. Tatiana Terekhova-Valeria Martynyuk. Natalia Dudinskaya- Elena Bazhenova. Maria Gribanova-Maria Chernyvskaya. Irina Zhelonkina-Alisa Barinova.

I love this list. Thank you. But damn, Lyudmila Kovaleva is really THAT girl. 🤣 Even Maria Koshkareva and Sofia Valiullina are doing really well.

This also made me realize that my taste has always been Marina Vasilieva’s students.

[otmaaromanovas]

Kenen lempinimi oli "Russa"? Anastasia mainitsi tästä henkilöstä kirjeessään sisarelleen Marialle vuonna 1918? Oliko se Anna Demidova?

Hello! I'm going to translate my answer into Finnish for you - I hope that it is accurate! The Finnish answer will be at the bottom of the post, so please scroll down to find it. (Hei! Käännän vastaukseni sinulle suomeksi - toivottavasti se on tarkka! Suomenkielinen vastaus on viestin lopussa, joten selaa alaspäin löytääksesi sen.)

This is a long post, so I hope that English readers will also find it interesting.

The question asks: "Whose nickname was "Russa"? Anastasia mentioned this person in a letter to her sister Maria in 1918? Was it Anna Demidova?"

The question refers to a letter written by Anastasia on 27 April 1918 [Old Style] to Maria, who had moved ahead to Ekaterinburg with their mother and father. The extract is a little difficult to understand fully as there are multiple versions of it.

Here is the extract in its original form, in Russian:

Тебя и Вас дорогих поцеловать и многое т. п., не буду распространяться, а Вы поймете. Мысленно давно. Русса, она хотя и мила, но странна и злит т. к. не понимает и просто не сносно. Я раз чуть не нагрубила, кретинка. Ну, я кажется достаточно глупостей написала. Сейчас еще буду писать, а потом почитаю, приятно, что есть свободное время. Пока до свидания. Всех благ желаю Вам, счастья и всего хорошего, постоянно молимся за Вас и думаем, помоги Господи. Христос с Вами золотыми. Обнимаю очень крепко всех… и целую…

This is an English translation, compiled by Sarah Miller for the Alexander Palace Time Machine - it does not state if she is the translator.

A kiss to you and to you dear ones and much else I won't enlarge on, for you will understand. Thought about it already some time ago. Russa, although sweet, is strange and makes one angry, for she doesn't understand and simply can't bear it. Once I was almost rude [to her], a real cretin. Well, it looks as if I've written enough silliness. Right now I'll write some more, and then I'll read it later, during free time, that is. For now, good-bye. I wish you the best, happiness, and all good things. We constantly pray for you and think, Help us Lord. Christ be with you, precious ones. I embrace all of you tightly and kiss you. A. 

Machine translations return the sentence about Russa as being "nice" but "strange and angry as she doesn't understand", or "strange and irritating because she does not understand". It also seems that the "real cretin" was Anastasia jokingly criticising herself for almost being rude.

Unfortunately, I cannot say for certain who 'Russa' is. However, I am certain that it was not Anna Stepanova Demidova. Anna went ahead with Maria, Nicholas, and Alexandra to Ekaterinburg, so Anastasia could not have been writing about her in Tobolsk.

From the testimony of Pierre Gilliard for the Sokolov Investigation (original French spellings of Russian surnames):

At this time the following persons departed from Tobolsk : The emperor and empress. Grand Duchess Maria Nicholaevna, Botkin, Dolgoruky, Tchemodouroff, Sedneff and Demidova. They were accompanied by six Rifles men and two officers—Matveieff and Nabokoff, as well as by soldiers of Iakovleff's detachment.

We do know that Anna Stepanovna Demidova was called 'Freylina' by the Bolshevik guards, and 'Nyuta' by the Romanov family. From Maria, writing from Ipatiev House in May 1918:

...Yesterday an extraordinary event happened: Nyuta and I washed Mama’s hair. Everything went well and her hair was not tangled, but I don’t know what is going to happen today and everything for sure is going to come undone… 

Maria also describes playing card games with Anna in Ekaterinburg and her reading letters from the family.

Anna Demidova seems to have had a devoted relationship with the family, including the children. In his testimony for the Sokolov Investigation, Gibbes recalled that Olga, Maria, and Anastasia would sometimes go to Demidova's bedroom in Tobolsk to relax with the female entourage, where they shared "plenty of jokes and laughter."

Unfortunately, the other main sources about her personality come from Greg King and Penny Wilson's book The Fate of the Romanovs, which is plagued by a lack of referencing. They claim that Charles Sydney Gibbes, the children's English tutor, recalled Anna as "a woman of a singularly timid and shrinking disposition." King and Wilson claimed that Anna was in love with Gibbes, but the affection was not returned as Gibbes was gay - but not a single reference is provided for either claim. Neither is a readily available reference provided for Gibbes' quote about Anna being "timid".

Similarly, Christine Benagh states that when leaving for Ekaterinburg, Anna "confided to him, “I am so frightened of the Bolsheviks, Mr. Gibbes. I don’t know what they might do to us.”" Once again, not a single reference is provided.

To conclude: I cannot find anything about who Russa could be, I'm so sorry! However, I do hope that confirming that Russia was not Anna Demidova is helpful in some way.

IN FINNISH:

Kysymyksessä viitataan kirjeeseen, joka on kirjoitettu 27. huhtikuuta 1918 [vanhaan tyyliin] Marialle, joka oli muuttanut äitinsä ja isänsä kanssa Jekaterinburgiin. Otetta on hieman vaikea ymmärtää täysin, koska siitä on useita versioita.

Tässä on ote alkuperäisessä muodossaan venäjäksi:

Тебя и Вас дорогих поцеловать и многое т. п., не буду распространяться, а Вы поймете. Мысленно давно. Русса, она хотя и мила, но странна и злит т. к. не понимает и просто не сносно. Я раз чуть не нагрубила, кретинка. Ну, я кажется достаточно глупостей написала. Сейчас еще буду писать, а потом почитаю, приятно, что есть свободное время. Пока до свидания. Всех благ желаю Вам, счастья и всего хорошего, постоянно молимся за Вас и думаем, помоги Господи. Христос с Вами золотыми. Обнимаю очень крепко всех… и целую…

Tämä on englanninkielinen käännös (jonka olen nyt kääntänyt suomeksi), jonka Sarah Miller on koonnut Alexander Palace Time Machinea varten - siinä ei mainita, onko hän kääntäjä.

Suudelma teille ja teille rakkaat ja paljon muuta, jota en laajenna, sillä te ymmärrätte. Ajattelin sitä jo jonkin aikaa sitten. Russa, vaikka onkin herttainen, on outo ja suututtaa, sillä hän ei ymmärrä eikä yksinkertaisesti kestä sitä. Kerran olin melkein töykeä [hänelle], oikea kretiini. No, näyttää siltä, että olen kirjoittanut tarpeeksi typeryyksiä. Nyt kirjoitan vielä vähän lisää, ja luen sen sitten myöhemmin, siis vapaa-aikana. Toistaiseksi, näkemiin. Toivotan teille kaikkea hyvää, onnea ja kaikkea hyvää. Rukoilemme jatkuvasti puolestasi ja ajattelemme: Auta meitä Herra. Kristus olkoon kanssanne, rakkaat. Halaan teitä kaikkia tiukasti ja suutelen teitä. A.

Konekäännökset palauttavat lauseen Russasta ”mukavaksi” mutta ”oudoksi ja vihaiseksi, koska hän ei ymmärrä” tai ”oudoksi ja ärsyttäväksi, koska hän ei ymmärrä”.

Valitettavasti en voi sanoa varmasti, kuka ”Russa” on. Olen kuitenkin varma, että se ei ollut Anna Stepanova Demidova. Anna lähti Marian, Nikolain ja Aleksandran kanssa Jekaterinburgiin, joten Anastasia ei voinut kirjoittaa hänestä Tobolskissa.

Pierre Gilliardin todistuksesta Sokolovin tutkimusta varten (venäläisten sukunimien alkuperäiset ranskalaiset kirjoitusasut):

Tällä kertaa Tobolskista lähtivät seuraavat henkilöt: keisari ja keisarinna. Suurherttuatar Maria Nikolajevna, Botkin, Dolgorukki, Tsemodouroff, Sedneff ja Demidova. Heidän mukanaan oli kuusi kiväärimiestä ja kaksi upseeria - Matvejev ja Nabokoff - sekä Iakovleffin osaston sotilaita.

Tiedämme, että bolshevikkikaartilaiset kutsuivat Anna Stepanovna Demidovaa nimellä ”Freylina” ja Romanovin perhe nimellä ”Nyuta”. Maria kirjoitti Ipatjevin talosta toukokuussa 1918:

…Eilen tapahtui erikoinen tapahtuma: Nyuta ja minä pesimme äidin hiukset. Kaikki sujui hyvin, eikä hänen hiuksensa sotkeentuneet, mutta en tiedä, mitä tänään tapahtuu, ja kaikki menee varmasti pieleen…

Maria kuvailee myös korttipelien pelaamista Annan kanssa Jekaterinburgissa ja Annan lukevan perheen kirjeitä. Anna Demidovalla näyttää olleen kiintynyt suhde perheeseen, myös lapsiin. Sokolovin tutkimusta varten antamassaan todistajanlausunnossa Gibbes muisteli, että Olga, Maria ja Anastasia menivät joskus Tobolskissa Demidovan makuuhuoneeseen rentoutumaan naisseurueen kanssa, jossa he jakoivat ”runsaasti vitsejä ja naurua”.

Valitettavasti muut tärkeimmät lähteet hänen persoonallisuudestaan ovat peräisin Greg Kingin ja Penny Wilsonin kirjasta The Fate of the Romanovs, jota vaivaa viittausten puute. He väittävät, että Charles Sydney Gibbes, lasten englanninopettaja, muisteli Annaa ”naisena, jolla oli harvinaisen arka ja kutistuva luonne”. King ja Wilson väittivät, että Anna oli rakastunut Gibbesiin, mutta kiintymys ei kostautunut, koska Gibbes oli homo - mutta kummallekaan väitteelle ei anneta yhtään viitettä, eikä Gibbesin Annaa koskevalle sitaatille ole luotettavaa viitettä.

Vastaavasti Christine Benagh väittää, että Anna ”uskoutui hänelle: ”Pelkään niin paljon bolshevikkeja, herra Gibbes. En tiedä, mitä he saattavat tehdä meille.”””. Jälleen kerran ei esitetä yhtään viittausta. Lopuksi: Olen yrittänyt etsiä ja tarkistaa kirjoja, mutta en löydä mitään siitä, kuka Russa voisi olla, olen pahoillani! Toivon kuitenkin, että sen vahvistaminen, että Russa ei ollut Anna Demidova, on jollakin tavalla hyödyllistä. Toivon todella, että suomenkielinen käännös toimi :)

SOURCES

Sarah Miller, 'Diaries and Letters - Lettters from Anastasia in Exile in English and Russian', Alexander Palace Time Machine (no date), https://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/anastasiaexile.php [accessed 15 March 2025]

George Gustav Telberg, Robert Wilton, The Last Days of the Romanovs, (New York: George H. Doran Company, 1920), p. 29, 175, 44

Helen Azar, 'Empress Alexandra - "Mama" and her girls (OTMA)', paragraph beginning 'From the letters of Grand Duchess Maria Romanov', The Romanov Family, (18 August 2015), <https://www.theromanovfamily.com/empress-alexandra-mama-and-her-girls/> [accessed 15 March 2025]

Greg King, Penny Wilson, The Fate of the Romanovs, (New Jersey: John Wiles & Sons, inc., 2003), p. 64

Christine Benagh, An Englishman in the court of the Tsar : the spiritual journey of Charles Sydney Gibbes, (California: Conciliar Press, 2000), p. 179