#grand duchess olga nikolaevna

[adini-nikolaevna]

“The year started out well — no one knows how it will end.”

—Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, January 1, 1913. Translation courtesy of Helen Azar.

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

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Grand Duchesses Olga and Maria Nikolaevna of Russia 🤍

“Marie darling!..Well, good night, I kiss you and pat you on your chubby, appetising cheeks. Your sister, O Romanova” 31st October/13th November 1914

[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)

[elsalouisa]

"In Peterhoff during the hot June weather the little Grand Duchess Marie was born. She was born good, | often think, with the very smallest trace of original sin possible. The Grand Duke Vladimir called her “The Amiable Baby” for she was always so good and smiling and gay. She is a very fine and pretty child, with great, dark-blue eyes and the fine level dark brows of the Romanoff family. Lately speaking of the child, a gentleman said that she had the face of one of Botticelli’s angels. But good and sweet-tempered as she is, she is also very human, as the following stories will show. When she was a very little child, she was one day with her sister in the Empress’s boudoir, where the Emperor and Empress were at tea. The Empress had tiny vanilla-flavoured wafers called biblichen, of which the children were particularly fond, but they were not allowed to ask for anything from the tea table. The Empress sent for me, and when | went down little Marie was standing in the middle of the room, her eyes drowned in tears and something was swallowed hastily. “There! I’ve eaten it all up,” said she, “you can’t get it now.” | was properly shocked, and suggested bed at once as a suitable punishment. The Empress said, “Very well, take her,” but the Emperor intervened, and begged that she might be allowed to remain, saying, | was always afraid of the wings growing, and I am glad to see she is only a human child.” She was constantly held up as an example to her elder sisters. They declared she was a step-sister. Vainly I pointed out that in all fairy tales it was the elder sisters who were step-sisters and the third was the real sister. They would not listen, and shut her out from all their plays. I told them that they could not expect her to stand that kind of treatment, and that someday they would be punished. One day they made a house with chairs at one end of the nursery and shut out poor Marie, telling her she might be the footman, but that she should stay outside. | made another house at the other end for baby, then a few months old, and her, but her eyes always kept travelling to the other end of the room and the attractive play going on there. She suddenly dashed across the room, rushed into the house, dealt each sister a slap in the face, and ran into the next room, coming back dressed in a doll’s cloak and hat, and with her hands full of small toys. “I won’t be a footman, I’ll be the kind, good aunt, who brings presents,” she said. She then distributed her gifts, kissed her “nieces,” and sat down. The other children looked shamefacedly from one to the other, and then Tatiana said, “We were too cruel to poor little Marie, and she really couldn’t help beating us.” They had learned their lesson-from that hour they respected her rights in the family".

Margaret Eager "Six years at the Russian court"

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

Cousins! 🤍

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

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Princess Irina Alexandrovna with her cousin Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna.

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Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolayevna

I had never thing Olga with her hair down like that.

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[royal-confessions]

“If the rules of succession for the choice of regent in the Russian monarchy had been different, along with a more favourable political context at the time, it is possible that Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna could have become a good empress.” - Text & Image Submitted by cenacevedo15

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Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevnia and her cousin, the hereditary Grand Duke Georg Donats of Hesse and by Rhine 1910s.

[adini-nikolaevna]

I would love to credit the artist properly, but I can’t read their name! Either way, I think this sketch of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna is beautiful!

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

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

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

Crop of a smiling Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna with father Tsar Nicholas II, 1st-cousin-in-law and 1st-cousin-once-removed Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, and probably Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna, 1910

[leonisandmurex]

OLGA. TATIANA. MARIA. ANASTASIA.

Happy 1st blogversary @foreverinthepagesofhistoryy ♡

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