The Imperial Angels

A blog dedicated to the Romanovs, the last Russian Imperial Family.

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Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, Vsevolozhsky(?), Anna Vyrubova and Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna onboard the Polar Star, 14th September - 6th October 1907.

Photo from : Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna’s 1907-1908 Album

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Maria Feodorovna fishing at the imperial yacht; 1894.

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Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna at the Lower Dacha in Peterhof, June - July 1909.

Photo from : Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna’s 1905-1910 Album

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Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna at the Alexander Palace, spring 1913.

“At thirteen, poor Anastasia began getting rather lumpy - in spite of all the exercise she took. She was also much shorter than her sisters and quite unaccountably lost all interest in her studies. Her teachers called it laziness. But I am not so sure. I think books as books never said much to her. She wanted to come to grips with life. I know there were many things that troubled her. She hated the Cossack escort always accompanying their outings and so on, but none of it marred her gaiety. That is how I remember her - brimming with life and mischief and laughing so often - sometimes for no reason at all, which is the best kind of laughter. The child was the gayest Romanov of her generation and she had a heart of gold.”

Vorres, I. (1965) The Last Grand Duchess, Her Imperial Highness Grand Dutchess Olga Alexandrovna. New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons, p. 106.

Photo from : Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna’s 1912-1913 Album

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Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna and Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna in Pukion-Saari, 7th June - 25th July 1911.

Photo from : Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna’s 1910-1912 Album

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Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia taking a few informal pictures while still dressed in all the finery used for the formal family portraits taken the same day, 1913

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Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna in the Finnish Skerries, 29th June - 28th July 1912.

Photo from : Tsar Nicholas II 1911 - 1913 Album

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Anna Vyrubova and Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna at the beach in Livadia, 5th September - 12th December 1909.

Photo from : Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna’s 1908-1910 Album

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Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna in Crimea, 5th September - 12th December 1909.

Photo from : Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna’s 1905-1910 Album

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Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna with a bouquet of flowers for her name’s day onboard the Standart, 22nd July 1912.

Photo from : Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna’s 1909-1912 Album

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Grand Duchess Xenia of Russia, Princess Victoria of United Kingdom and Empress Alexandra of Russia

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Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna onboard the Standart, June - July 1912.

Photo from : Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna’s 1910-1912 Album

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Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna and Tsesarevich Alexei Nikolaevich at the Livadia Palace, 18th March - 25th May 1912.

Photo from : Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna’s 1909-1912 Album

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Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna with her daughters in Ropsha, 6th - 14th August 1908.

“9th August. Saturday. Walked in the morning. Tatiana, O.E., S.I. and I went to the field. Collected cornflowers. Had breakfast with Papa and Mama. Drank tea too. In the afternoon, went boating. Was at vsenoshchnoy in the local church.”

“10th August. Sunday. All four were at obednya in the local church. Had breakfast with Mama. Papa had breakfast at the Grodno Hussars. In the afternoon, walked as usual. Drank tea with Papa and Mama.” (1908 Diary of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna)

Photos from: Anna Vyrubova’s 1908-1909 Album

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Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna and Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna in the Finnish skerries, 7th June - 25th July 1911.

Photo from : Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna’s 1908-1911 Album

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Grand Duchess Maria.

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Anastasia and Maria at the imperial yacht

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