why is marie and olga your favorites?? btw love your blog
Of course I adore all four of the Romanov sisters.
I cannot even remember the first time I first saw Anastasia, the film dream version by Fox of what could have been. I was so little (and still to this day I believe the Swedish voice over to be better than the original he)
Sadly it was all fictional which I was to learn at age 10 when I began doing my own research on the sisters. But from then on, my great fixation of the Royalties from the past was born.
(E.g. my great love for Princess Alexandra of Wales was born when I found out she was the great aunt of the girls around the same time I began studying about the sisters đ€«)
But initially, it was Maria that caught my attention the most. Her hauntingly beautiful eyes were difficult to ignore as I scrolled past photos of the sisters on the net. I think I wanted to look so much like her; around that time I too had long, wavy brown hair with rather round eyes and a round face. Of course I thought she was the prettier version of myself.
But as I grew older and my interest in the Russian Royal family became⊠less vain, I found myself relating a lot with Olga. Whenever I tried to imagine where and who the sisters could have been if their fate would be changed, the one I could think of as a more successful existence would be Olga. And what I mean with successful is that itâs easier to think of Olga as a fellow girl, a fellow human being, in todayâs time. The girls are forever stuck in history; whenever I think of the rest of the siblings they remain as the historical and tragic OTMA, victims of the Russian revolution.
But Olga to me comes across as so⊠F R E S H! Her thoughts and her ideas scrambled and written down in her journaling, her letters and whatâs been quoted what she was like feels so modern-time human to me (which I know is a weird description). Itâs hard to put my feelings into words and I wish I could demonstrate them a little better lol.
But to summarize it all Iâd say this; Maria caught my eyes with her timeless beauty both from the inside and outside. Her devotion to love; to be loved and to love others.
Olga for her complex personality that made an historical, cut-short in life, wise young woman like herself so relatable even to this day, to someone like me. Her ability to think beyond the box that was made for her.
Thank you for the question! Xx
