ROMANOV FAMILY: ON THIS DATE IN THEIR OWN WORDS. TATIANA ROMANOV. 22 JANUARY, 1915

Sister Olga Romanov and Sister Tatiana Romanov posing with the wounded at their Tsarskoe Selo infirmary in 1915. Photo credit: ГА РФ, ф. 640 оп. 3 д. 25 л. 64 фото 934

From the 1915 diary of Tatiana Romanov:

“Thursday, 22 January. At 9.30 [we] 4 went with Papa and Mama to church for moleben. At 10 o’clock Papa departed. So sad. [We] two went to the infirmary. Bandaged Krat, Gordinsky, Belitsky, Otmarshteyn and Gumanyuk. Took photographs in each ward. Breakfast and lunch with Mama. At 2 o’clock Gogoberidze came to say goodbye at Mama’s. Then [we] walked. Sat a little with Aleksei, who is in bed as [his] leg and arm ache. Went to the Grand Palace. Had tea with Mama upstairs at Aleksei’s. Had lessons. After lunch we went to [see] ours. Sat with the Nizhegorodtzy. Put together a puzzle with Navruzov and Vachnadze, then worked. Returned, sat with Mama.”

From the book Tatiana Romanov, Daughter of the Last Tsar: Diaries and Letters, 1913–1918