World of the Romanovs

Tsarevich Alexei with kittens onboard the Standart, July 1908

Visit to the Martha and Mary Convent of Mercy in Moscow. May 1912

Photo 1: The Grand Duchesses arriving at the Martha and Mary Convent of Mercy in Moscow.

Photo 2: Elizabeth Feodorovna, Nicholas II, Tatiana Nikolaevna and Olga Nikolaevna at the Martha and Mary Convent of Mercy in Moscow.

Photo 3: Tatiana Nikolaevna, Maria Nikolaevna, Olga Nikolaevna, Nicholas II and Elizabeth Feodorovna at the Martha and Mary Convent of Mercy in Moscow.

Photo 4: Olga Nikolaevna and Nicholas II leaving the Martha and Mary Convent of Mercy in Moscow.

Photo 5: Nicholas II, Anastasia Nikolaevna, Tatiana Nikolaevna and Olga Nikolaevna leaving the Martha and Mary Convent of Mercy in Moscow.

Nicholas II and Alexei Nikolaevich in Mogilev. 1916

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Yekaterinburg 3/16 July

Irina's 23rd B.D.

11° Tuesday

Grey morning, later lovely sunshine. Baby has a slight cold. All went out ½ hour in the morning, Olga & I arranged our medicines. Tatiana read

3:00. Spir. Readings. They went out, Tatiana stayed with me & we read: Bk. of the Pr. Amos and Pr.

Obadiah. Tatted. Every moring the Command. comes to our rooms, at last after a week brought eggs again for Baby.

8:00. Supper.

Suddenly Lyonka Sednev was fetched to go & see his Uncle & flew off—wonder whether its true & we shall see the boy back again!

Played bezique with Nicholas.

10:30. to bed. 15 degrees.

Alexandra and Maria. 1898

[…] How one longs to fly away together and forget all — one gets at times so weary — my spirit is good but so disgusted with all one says. I fear Gadon is playing a bad part at Elagin, because one says the conversations there against our Friend are awful — old Mme Orlov had heard this — she knows ladies who go there. When you see poor Motherdear, you must rather sharply tell her how pained you are, that she listens to slander and does not stop it, as it makes mischief, and others wld. be delighted, I am sure, to put her against me — people are so mean. [….]

Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna sitting on the balcony of the Livadia Palace, April 1914

Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia with his family. August 16th 1901