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── .✧ hello <3 my name is Bea, I'm seventeen, and I made this blog to share my interest in history.

── .✧ I post about the Romanovs and Russian history, but I'm interested in other historical topics as well. I also really enjoy literature, music, philosophy, and art.

#introductory post

Tsarina Maria Feodorovna and the writer Fyodor Dostoevsky met in 1880 at a charity event.

"..she (Maria) knew about the friendship between Dostoevsky and Grand Duke Konstantin and turned to the latter with a request to introduce her to my father. The Grand Duke immediately organized an evening and invited Dostoevsky, informing him beforehand who he would meet at his place. Father was somewhat embarrassed that he did not recognize the tsarevna, whose photographs were then hanging in all the windows; he accepted the invitation and tried to be courteous. Now it was his turn to admire the tsarevna. The future Russian Empress was an amazing person, simple and kind, with her inherent gift of pleasing people. Dostoevsky made a deep impression on her; she talked so much about him to her husband that the Tsarevich also wanted to meet my father."

- from the memoirs of the writer's daughter.

#maria feodorovna #alexander iii #fyodor dostoevsky #♡#russian history #romanovs #1880

Photographs of Princess Dagmar of Denmark, later Tsarina Marina Feodorovna.

#maria feodorovna #♡#romanovs #russian history #alexander iii

Formal photographs of OTMA taken in 1910.

#otma #grand duchess olga #grand duchess tatiana #grand duchess maria #grand duchess anastasia #1910 #♡

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna kept diaries from the age of nine, writing in Russian. In total, there are twelve diary books.

From 1905 until 1912 they are custom made gift books with silk bindings, designed in a different color for each year, with the year written on the cover, such as the 1911 diary pictured above. Later, from 1913 until 1916, they are contained in large notebooks with dark leather bindings.

When she wanted to write something private, Olga used a special code she devised herself – above is an example of this code. The Grand Duchess first started using these secret codes in her 1911 diary.

When Crimean researcher Maria Zemlyanichenko read Olga’s diaries, she noticed the abbreviation “S.”, which referred to the name of the Grand Duchess’s love interest. Different codes referred to some other love interests.

#olga nikolaevna #otma #♡#romanovs #russian history

Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, photographed in 1914.

#grand duchess maria #otma #romanovs #♡#russian history #1914

On the night of 16–17 July 1918, the abdicated Russian Imperial family was murdered in the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg by Bolshevik revolutionaries, led by Yakov Yurovsky.

Also murdered that night were members of the imperial entourage who had accompanied them to Yekaterinburg: their physician, lady-in-waiting, footman and head cook. The bodies were buried in a forest.

The Bolsheviks initially announced only Nicholas's death. In April 1922, the Soviet leadership explicitly denied the murder.

In 1926, the regime acknowledged the murders of the family, but claimed that Lenin's cabinet was not responsible for them.

The disinformation spread by the Soviets fuelled rumours of Romanov survivors, and several impostors emerged - perhaps the most famous case being that of Anna Anderson, a woman who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia.

In 1979, amateur detective Alexander Avdonin discovered the burial site. However, the Soviet Union did not acknowledge the existence of the family's remains until 1989 during the time of Гласность (Glasnost), a five-year period at the end of the USSR's existence marked by a decrease in pre-publication censorship and a greater freedom of information.

In 1998, eighty years after the executions, the remains of the Romanovs were reinterred in a state funeral in the Peter and Paul Cathedral in Saint Petersburg. The Russian Orthodox Church canonized Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children as saints in 2000, recognising them as passion bearers.

#romanovs #nicholas ii #alexandra feodorovna #otma #tsarevich alexei #on this day #russian history #♡

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Today’s visit to the Catherine Palace was out of this world. Wish I could stay forever 💫

#catherine palace #interiors #romanovs #russian history

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, photographed in 1895.

#alexandra feodorovna #romanovs #russian history #1895 #♡

"Irina’s wedding dress was magnificent; it was of white satin embroidered in silver, with a long train. Her face veil, which had belonged to Marie Antoinette, was held by a tiara of rock crystal and diamonds." - Felix Yusupov

Irina and Felix Yusupov married in 1914, and it was the last such occasion in Russian society before WWI.

They had one daughter together, Irina Felixovna Yusupova - nicknamed Bébé, who was born in 1915.

Felix Yusupov took part in the killing of Grigori Rasputin. Irina was originally supposed to be present as well, however she backed out of the plan.

After the abdication of the Tsar, the Yusupovs boarded a British warship to Malta. From there they travelled through Italy to Paris before going on to London.

In 1920, they bought a house in Paris where they spent most of their lives.

Together, they founded a couture house named Irfé. Irina herself modeled some of the dresses.

After MGM released a film called "Rasputin and the Empress" in 1932, the Yusupovs sued the studio and won the case.

They continued to be close to one another for the rest of their lives, and were married for more than 50 years.