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- Olga (1895-1918) “Beautiful blond hair, large blue eyes and a marvelous complexion; a slightly turned up nose similar to that of the Sovereign,” one of the ladies-in-waiting described the look of the oldest daughter of Nicholas and Alexandra.
- Tatiana (1897-1918) Two years after Olga, the second daughter was born. The imperial parents were disappointed – they were awaiting an heir, a son. The daughter was called Tatiana, a rare name for the Romanovs.
- Maria (1899-1918) Alexandra’s third pregnancy was complicated and, later, she got upset that she gave birth to another daughter. “Too bad it wasn’t a son.
- Anastasia (1901-1918) “What a disappointment! The fourth daughter!” the relatives of the imperial family wrote when Anastasia was born. The tensions indeed rose – the question of succession was acute and the empress was ready for any mystical rites to give birth to a son.
- The Flirtatious Young Duchess
- Rasputin, The “Mad Monk”
- The Downfall of The Romanov Family
- The Romanovs in Exile
- The Death and Legacy of Maria Romanov
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As a young duchess, Maria Romanov reportedly loved to flirt and discuss her dreams of marriage and children. Her childhood nanny recalled how “One day the little Grand Duchess Mari[a] was looking out of the window at a regiment of soldiers marching past and exclaimed, ‘Oh! I love these dear soldiers; I should like to kiss them all.'” As many of her...
Enter Grigori Rasputin, a Siberian peasant mystic who enjoyed great success passing himself off as a holy man with special powers to the ladies of Russian high society. Thanks to his elite connections, Rasputin was eventually introduced to the tsar himself. The truth about Rasputin’s seemingly-magical ability to heal Alexei is still shrouded in mys...
With the rumors surrounding Rasputin complicating things for the Romanovs, their position grew more precarious still with the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Olga and Tatiana began to work as nurses alongside their mother in a military hospital, while Maria and Anastasiavisited wounded soldiers, cheering them up with their humor and lively persona...
Initially, Maria Romanov and the rest of the imperial family were exiled to Tobolsk, Siberia, where life was dull but bearable. However, when the Marxists revolutionaries known as the Bolsheviks seized power in October 1917, they decided to move the family to Ekaterinburg, where the fervently-Bolshevik population would prevent any attempts at rescu...
In the early hours of July 17, 1918, Yurovsky woke the family and told them to dress and go to the basement. The Romanovs hoped that this meant rescue by their supporters. While it was true that pro-Romanov forces were closing in on Ekaterinburg, the actual reason was far grimmer. The Bolsheviks had decided to execute the royal family rather than m...
Learn about the life and death of Maria Romanov, one of the four grand duchesses of Russia's royal family. Discover how she was the most flirtatious and merry of the sisters, and how she was caught in the web of Rasputin and the revolution.
Learn about the lives and fates of the four daughters of Tsar Nicholas II, who were executed by Bolsheviks in 1918. Helen Rappaport, author of Four Sisters, reveals their personalities, hopes, dreams and disappointments in love.
The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918.
Ten of the photographs are professional single and group portraits of the Empress’s daughters, known collectively to the family in order of birth as OTMA, taken by the fashionable firm Boissonnas & Eggler, and one is a snapshot of her son, Tsesarevich Alexei, possibly taken by the Empress herself.
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Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia ( Russian: Анастасия Николаевна Романова, romanized : Anastasiya Nikolaevna Romanova; 18 June [ O.S. 5 June] 1901 – 17 July 1918) was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia, and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna .
Apr 2, 2014 · Anastasia was the youngest daughter of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II, and his wife Alexandra. She and her family were executed by Bolsheviks in 1918, but rumors of her survival persisted for decades.
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