𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲

↟𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐍𝐄

This stone has been known for many centuries and was discovered in Viking burial mounds. During the Victorian era, it was a little-known, rare, and costly stone. A member of the feldspar group, and can be found mainly in India, Canada, and North Europe. It fuels creative desire, increases motivation, channels sensuality, and aids manifestation.

Chakras: solar plexus, sacral

Zodiacs: leo, libra

Planets: in this case, our star, the Sun

Elements: Fire

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

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna in Livadia, 5th September - 16th December 1909.

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 1 : Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, General Alexander Orlov and Nikolai Pavlovich Chistyakov in the Finnish Skerries, 21st August - 5th October 1907.

Photo 2 : Tsar Nicholas II, Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna, Nikolai Pavlovich Chistyakov, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna and General Alexander Orlov