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HYBRID HOUSES OF THE BIG PAIR

~Olga and Tatiana Nikolaevna~

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Maria Nikolaevna Romanova

Maria and her younger sister Anastasia were often referred to as ‘The Little Pair,’ sharing a room and dressing similarly for special occasions when they wore variations of the same outfit.

Sweet-natured and soft, Maria was sometimes taken advantage of by her sisters, who nicknamed her 'fat little bow-wow.' The middle child of the family, Maria sometimes felt insecure and left out by her older sisters.

Maria was a generous spirit, leading her father Nicholas to once remark he worried she was too perfect and that he liked to be told when she misbehaved.

Too young to become a nurse during World War I, she visited wounded soldiers at a private hospital in the grounds of the palace at Tsarskoye Selo, playing board games with soldiers to help uplift their spirits.

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Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova

The now much mythologised fourth Romanov daughter was the wild child of the family, a force of nature who constantly entertained and demanded attention.

Quirky, inattentive and a hopeless scholar, she was also instinctive and intuitive and it was impossible to ignore her boisterous personality.

Holding the record for punishable deeds in her family, Anastasia sometimes tripped up servants, played pranks on her tutors and climbed trees.

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Tsarevich Aleksei Nikolaevich

As Alexei grew older his parents carefully explained to him the nature of his illness and impressed on him the necessity of avoiding falls and blows. But Alexei was a child of active mind, loving sports and outdoor play, and it was almost impossible for him to avoid the very things that brought him suffering. “Can’t I have a bicycle?” he would beg his mother. “Alexei, you know you can’t.” “Mayn’t I play tennis?” “Dear, you know you mustn’t.” Often these hard denials of the natural play impulse were followed by a gush of tears as the child cried out: “Why can other boys have everything and I nothing?”

Suffering and self-denial had their effect on the character of Alexei. Knowing what pain and sacrifice meant, he was extraordinarily sympathetic towards other sick people. His thoughtfulness of others was shown in his beautiful courtesy to women and girls and to his elders, and in his interest in the troubles of servants and dependents. It was a failing of the Emperor that even when he sympathized with the troubles of others he was rather slow to take action, unless indeed the matter was really serious. Alexei, on the contrary, was always for immediate action.

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Olga Nikolaevna

As the eldest daughter, the onus was often on Olga to set an example to her younger siblings. The most sensitive of the four Romanov sisters, she was also fiercely independent and strong-minded.

Olga was often paired with her sister Tatiana. The two girls shared a room, dressed alike, and were often referred to as ‘The Big Pair.’ Among her godparents was her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria.

Olga loved to read and enjoyed school work. Throughout her lifetime, Olga’s future marriage was often the subject of speculation. Matches with a variety of suitors were rumoured, including Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, Crown Prince Carol of Romania, and even Edward, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Britain’s George V. However, Olga expressed a desire to marry a Russian and remain in her home country.

During World War I, she nursed wounded soldiers in a military hospital, eventually undertaking administrative duties because she had “overtired herself.”

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Tatiana Nikolaevna

The great beauty of the family, Tatiana’s chiselled features closely resembled those of her mother.Tatiana was practical and had a natural talent for leadership, earning her the nickname of ‘The Governess’ amongst her sisters. French tutor, Pierre Gilliard, remarked that Tatiana was reserved and “well balanced” but less open and spontaneous than her elder sister, Olga.As Tatiana progressed into adulthood, she undertook more public appearances than her sisters and also headed committees. Much like her mother, Tatiana was deeply religious, reading her Bible regularly and studying theology.When World War I broke out, she became a Red Cross nurse with her mother and Olga, her talent leading some to speculate that had she not been a princess, she could have become a pioneering nurse.

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Olga, Tatiana, Marie, Anastasia, Aleksei

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Royal MBTI, part 1

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanova

Olga was compassionate and sought to help others. As a child, she saw a little girl crying in the road. She threw her doll out of her carriage, saying, “Don’t cry, little girl, here’s a doll for you." Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden remembered that "she was generous, and an appeal to her met with immediate response. ‘Oh, one must help poor so-and-so. I must do it somehow,’ she would say."When she was 20, she took control of a portion of her sizable fortune and began to respond independently to requests for charity. One day when she was out for a drive she saw a young child using crutches. She asked about the child and learned that the youngster’s parents were too poor to afford treatment. She set aside an allowance to cover the child’s medical bills. A court official, Alexander Mossolov, recalled that Olga’s character was "even, good, with an almost angelic kindness” by the time she was a young woman.

Olga was famous for her quick temper and moodiness. As a small child, she told a portrait painter, “You are a very ugly man and I don’t like you one bit!" Her mother’s friend Anna Vyrubova wrote that Olga’s "chief characteristics … were a strong will and a singularly straightforward habit of thought and action… Admirable qualities in a woman, these same characteristics are often trying in childhood, and Olga as a little girl sometimes showed herself willful and even disobedient." On 11 January 1909, Alexandra admonished the 13-year-old Olga for rudeness and bad behavior. She told the teenager that she must be polite to the servants, who looked after her well and did their best for her, and she should not make her nurse "nervous” when she was tired and not feeling well. Olga responded on 12 January 1909 that she would try to do better but it wasn’t easy because her nurse became angry and cross with her for no good reason. However, Ersberg, one of the maids, told her niece that the servants sometimes had good reason to be cross with Olga because the eldest grand duchess could be spoiled, capricious, and lazy. On 24 January 1909, Alexandra scolded the active teenager, who once signed another of her letters with the nickname “Unmounted Cossack”, again: “You are growing very big — don’t be so wild and kick about and show your legs, it is not pretty. I never did so when your age or when I was smaller and younger even." According to Anna, Olga was 'extremely pretty, with brilliant blue eyes and a lovely complexion, Olga resembled her father in the fineness of her features, especially in her delicate, slightly tipped nose.' and measured 165 centimetres tall.

Olga’s governess and tutors noted that she had some autocratic impulses. On a visit to a museum where state carriages were on display, Olga ordered one of the servants to prepare the largest and most beautiful carriage for her daily drive. Her wishes were not honored, much to the relief of her governess, Margaretta Eagar.

Olga was highly intelligent and enjoyed studying. "The eldest, Olga Nicolaevna, possessed a remarkably quick brain,” recalled her Swiss tutor, Pierre Gilliard. “She had good reasoning powers as well as initiative, a very independent manner, and a gift for swift and entertaining repartee." She enjoyed reading about politics and read newspapers. She reportedly enjoyed choosing from her mother’s book selection. When she was caught taking a book before her mother read it, Olga would jokingly tell her mother that Alexandra must wait to read the novel until Olga had determined whether it was an appropriate book for her to read.

Olga was musically gifted. Her teachers said that she had "an absolutely correct ear."Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden reflected that, "She could play by ear anything she had heard, and could transpose’ complicated pieces of music, play the most difficult accompaniments at sight, and her touch on the piano was delightful. She sang prettily in a mezzosoprano. She was lazy at practising, but when the spirit moved her she would play by the hour.’’

Olga felt the rights of eldest children should be protected. When she was told the Biblical story of Joseph and his coat of many colors, she sympathized with the eldest brothers rather than Joseph. She also sympathized with Goliath rather than David in the Biblical story of David and Goliath. When her French tutor, Pierre Gilliard, was teaching her the formation of French verbs and the use of auxiliaries, ten-year-old Olga responded, "I see, monsieur. The auxiliaries are the servants of the verbs. It’s only poor 'avoir’ which has to shift for itself.”

Due to her sheltered life, Olga had little experience with the world. She and her sisters had little understanding of money, because they had not had an opportunity to shop in stores or to see money exchange hands. Young Olga once thought that a hat maker who came to the palace had given her a new hat as a present. Olga was once frightened when she witnessed a policeman arresting someone on the street. She thought the policeman would come to arrest her because she had behaved badly for Miss Eagar. When reading a history lesson, she remarked that she was glad she lived in current times, when people were good and not as evil as they had been in the past.

Olga was fascinated with heaven and the afterlife. In November 1903, the 8-year-old Olga learned about death when her first cousin, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, died of typhoid fever while on a visit to the Romanovs at their Polish estate. “My children talked much of cousin Ella and how God had taken her spirit, and they understood that later God would take her body also to heaven,” wrote Eagar. “On Christmas morning when Olga awoke, she exclaimed at once, 'Did God send for cousin Ella’s body in the night?’ I felt startled at such a question on Christmas morning, but answered, 'Oh, no, dear, not yet.’ She was greatly disappointed, and said, 'I thought He would have sent for her to keep Christmas with Him.’”

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Favorite cousin: always Irina, Aunt: Olga A, Uncle: Mikhail, Favorite empress Anastasia Romanovna

Hey! I will start to do like a series of questions about the Romanovs. The first question would be favorite sister, but you answerd me already. So it gonna be:

FAVORITE COUSIN OF THE ROMANOVS?

Mine it will always be Princess Irina Yusupova.

FAVORITE AUNT/UNCLE?

My favorite aunt, Elisabeth of Hesse and favorite uncle Mikhail.

FAVORITE TSARINA/EMPRESS?

Maria (Dagmar) Feodorovna, she is so charming!

PART 2 COMING SOON!

p.s. i have a collection with romanov aesthetics, go and chack it out🤩

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Photo 1 : Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna and Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna onboard the Standart, 31st May - 20th July 1908.

Photo 2 : Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna onboard the Standart, 31st May - 20th July 1908.

“12th June. Thursday. In the morning played on the deck. In the afternoon went to the shore and ran in the water over the stones. Had breakfast and drank tea with Papa and Mama. At 8 o'clock were at the prayer. ”

(1908 Diary of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna)

Photos from: Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna’s 1908 Album Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna’s 1905-1910 Album

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Irina was such a beauty! She was a perfect daughter and wife. Congrats Irina Alexandrovna Yusupova (nee Romanova).

Ellegant couple: Prince Felix Yusupov with his wife, Princess Irina Alexandrovna, the only niece of the last Tsar

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You, who carry the scent of the stars ... Give me other dawns, together with the nereids.

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Thank you Marvel!

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"It was our destiny to love and say goodbye."