She’s more than just a WWI nurse
Between 1914 and 1917 Tatiana Romanova was a Red Cross Nurse in a Tsarskeo Selo hospital alongside her sister Olga and their mother Alexandra.
"Anna Vyrubova, who worked as a nurse alongside the imperial Sisters of Mercy, also remembered that "all the doctors who saw the Grand Duchess Tatiana at her work (said that she was born to be a nurse, that she gently and tear-lessly touches the most serious wounds That all of her dressings are done by a contident and skilltul hand. Meanwhile, just the sight of some of these injuries could deprive (another) person of sleep and rest" Lyrubova continued "Thave seen a lot of grief, having spent three years in a Bolshevik prison, but that was nothing compared to the horrors of a military hospital." While Olga could hardly bear the sight of open wounds, Tatiana "even complained that due to her youth she was not allowed to work on the most serious cases."
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Azar, H. (2015). Tatiana Romanov, Daughter of the Last Tsar: Diaries and Letters, 1913-1918
Tatiana Nkolaevna Romanova was agre han just a Red Cross Nurse dung The Great War. She cred ed Tatiana's Committee, what was also called, "Committee fol Temporary Aid to Victims of War Sorrows."
OTMA took photos of themselves to put on postcards. The postcards were sold and the money raised helped her committee.
"The war has ruined and scattered millions of our civilians; these unfortunate refugees - homeless and hungry - are looking for food. The government, public and national establishments, private philanthropists and my committee are helping the refugees, but their needs are so greaf that only the whole nation can help them. I Taplore you, my kind people, to give The reugees some spiritual and Spally warmth, and to console them said a feeling that you understand heir hopeless grief."
- Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova
Some of the things Tatiana’s Committee did:
. The Tsar personally provided 900,000 rubles of his own, and the state also funded the committee More rubles were raised through rattles, auctions, charity balls, and selling postcards. In May of 1975 2.2 million rubles were raised Give money to widows
• the Tsar personally provided 900,000 rubles of his own, and the state also funded the committee More rubles were raised through rattles, auctions, charity balls, and selling postcards. In May of 1975 2.2 million rubles were raised Give money to widows
. Purchase medicine for disabled people
• Set up soup kitchens , Set up orphanages
. Set up schools
• Tatiana set up programs to help refugees and help them adapt
• Set up maternity homes The committee helps reunite families separated from the war
. Food, shelter, and clothing were provided to refugees
. Financial aid was provided to anyone who suffered from the war
• Set up a British Women's hospital in Petrograd Find bread and clothing for the poor
• Everyone working on the committee did not have a salary, it was all voluntary based
• Maria and Anastasia visited a nurse's school and feed, played with, and cared for babies. They also looked after other children there
Sources:
Helen Azar Tatiana Romanov, Daughter of the Last Tsar: Diaries and Letters, 1913-1918
World War I took an expensive toll on the Russian Empire, and the vast number of internally displaced people was one of its most dramatic co
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Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia volunteering at a refugee settlement during World War I. March 1916. Second daughter of Tsar Nich
