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"next Innocence has 0 to do with communism" factoid actualy just bad math bc someone didn't listen to his tutor. average Innocence has relation to communism expressible through a rational number which may or may not be 0 depending on how you count Sola and the Perikarnassian maybe. Schrödinger's Nihilmat Ambrosius, who has 0/0 to do with communism & may or may not have listened to his math tutor at all the wrong times, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanov with Pavel Voronov and Rodionov. 1912.
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What was Tatiana’s relationship with N Rodianov?
Hello there! Thank you for your question and I am sorry for the late reply!
Nikolai Nikolaevich Rodionov was Tatiana’s favourite officer on the Standart. The girls naturally had their favourite officers: Olga’s was Pavel Voronov, Maria's was Nikolai Demenkov, Anastasia’s was Georgii Taube. Some of these were obviously crushes, whereas some were just close friendships.
When Tatiana was suffering from typhoid, Alix sent notes to her to comfort her and give advice. In one of these notes she specificallly mentions she saw Rodionov. So judging by this he was definitely a family favourite and/or Alix knew that would cheer up dear Tatiana.
Here are some photos of them together:
And this super cute one of them sharing a coat to keep cosy!
From Tatiana’s diary and letters - Rodionov is almost always referred to as 'N.N.' (Nikolai Nikolaevich):
'29 May [Old Style, her birthday] Thursday [1914]. ...I played 2 singles sets [of Tennis] with N.N., both of which he won... I played 3 sets with N.N. against Papa and Olga, won two lost one. N.P. arrived. We had tea there. After that I had a rest and wrote telegrams... I sat between N.N. and N.P. It was very good. After that, there was a cinematograph in the dining room. I sat with N.N. on the divan. We went back home at 12. It was so awfully good. They drank my health three times at the table. So sweet and cosy. To be with such dear friends.' - Full diary entry here, translated by the wonderful Helen Azar
'10 January. [1916]. ...One of these days N.N. Rodionov is supposed to arrive, and I am very happy. We have not seen him for almost a year...'
Letter from Tatiana to Countess Zinaïda Tolstaya:
'1 March, 1918 Tobolsk. ...Write to me again. I love receiving your letters. Do you know where N.N. is at the moment? I know that his friend was killed in Simferopol and he was there too...'
She also wrote occasionally in her diary about speaking with him on the telephone, something that OTMA did with their favourite officers, mostly in the evening.
She didn’t write about him quite as passionately or often as Olga did about Pavel Voronov or AKSHV, so I don’t know whether you would consider it to be a ‘crush’, or just a particular favourite :) She sometimes called him 'dear N.N.', which could just be Russian endearment expressed in many of their letters and diaries, or something more romantic.
From the photos that exist of him, he seems to have been close to all the girls, posing with them affectionately, holding their hands, etc. They all write about him in their diaries fondly. Judging purely off photos, he seems to have been extra close with Tatiana and Anastasia. There are some super cute photos of him and Anastasia, I’ll attach them below! You’re pretty much guaranteed to find him in all their albums!
Rodionov survived the Revolution, despite staying loyal to the Imperial Family, which would have placed him in considerable danger. At some point he emigrated, and he passed away in 1962 in France, aged 76. He would have been 24 in 1910, and therefore his mid 20s during his time with the Romanovs.
Also, random fun fact, his hand writing was strikingly similar to Tatiana’s! The same very sloped, pointy text.
Hope this was helpful! To conclude, I don't know exactly whether Tatiana saw Rodionov as a favourite officer or more of a crush. She was more reserved than Olga, so her not writing about him like Olga did with her crushes is understandable when you consider her personality. But she clearly was very fond about him, and didn't forget him even in the last year of her life.
Today we celebrate the martyrdom of the New-martyr Evgeny Rodionov (+1996). Although not officially canonised, at eighteen years of age, New Martyr Evgeny was drafted into the Russian armed forces as was required for all Russian men. Shortly before being drafted, he was baptised into the Orthodox Church on his own accord, as his parents were atheist. About a year into his military service, Evgeny was captured by Muslim Chechnyan soldiers and was forced to remove the cross he was wearing around his neck - the cross which his grandmother gave him as an eleven year old child which he never took off, despite his atheist parents' pleas as it was frowned upon in schools. The martyr Evgeny was tortured for three months by the soldiers. While his friends who were also captured denied their faith and accepted Islam, Evgeny remained firm in his faith. Eventually they decided to behead him with a rusty saw which took over an hour to complete. His body was later identified by his mother only because of the cross he was still wearing. Evgeny was martyred on this day in 1996 on his 19th birthday. Proof of his sanctity is that his icon in Russia began weeping myrrh which has become a source of healing for many. May he intercede for us all + #saint #evgeny #rodionov #evgenyrodinov #martyr #newmartyr #russia #chechnya #cross #islam #crucifix #faith #orthodox #saintoftheday (at Sernovodskoye, Chechen Republic) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd39fxCPoTN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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"Memory" Rodionovs V.V. and N.P. (1984)
"Память" Родионовы В.В. и Н.П. (1984)
Nikolai Rodionov, Senior Lieutenant of the Russian Imperial Guards Equipage | Старший лейтенант Гвардейского экипажа Николай Родионов
Лейтенант Родионов Николай Николаевич (1886-1962), служил на императорской яхте «Штандарт», старший лейтенант Гвардейского экипажа, капитан 2-го ранга, (конце января 1917 г. помощник командира по строевой части батареи Гвардейского экипажа. Несмотря на уход 1 марта Гвардейского экипажа во главе с великим князем Кириллом Владимировичем к Государственной Думе, он среди немногих моряков остался верен присяге императору и принимал участие в защите Александровского дворца.
Морской корпус 1905. Старший лейтенант Гвардейского Экипажа. В Вооруженных силах Юга России. Эвакуирован из Одессы. Капитан 2-го ранга. В эмиграции во Франции, 1929 секретарь Объединения офицеров Гвардейского Экипажа в Париже, в 1932 вышел из Кают-кампании в Париже в Морское Собрание (член ВОМО). Ум. 1962.09.24 под Парижем. [Волков С.В. Офицеры Росс.гв. М.,2002]
"It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself."
Looking up from a freshly-penned draft of his Manifesto, Kras Mazov waited for his dearest friends' opinion. Ion Rodionov, who had been in some manner of mood since hearing the very first sentence of the draft, burst into a fit of incontrollable laughter and refused to elaborate.
