In hopeful anticipation that the Romanov family will be reunited in burial sooner rather than later, here are some footage excerpts from their 1998 burial ceremony at Peter & Paul Fortress in St Petersburg. May the two children join their family soon, as I am sure all of them would have wanted!
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Everyone loves “then and now” photographs. Here is another digital “keepsake” album dedicated to the places associated with the Romanov family.
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I created this digital keepsake album for OTMA Romanov, much like the ones they used to often make themselves. Hope you enjoy!
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The entire Romanov family loved to listen to music, especially what were known as the Russian “romance” songs”, but also opera arias. According to Tatiana Botkin-Melnik, daughter of the Romanov family physician, even during the war years singers from Imperial Theaters often came to the infirmaries and gave performances and concerts, which the Grand Duchesses and Tsarevich Alexei loved to attend.
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As a librarian, of course this topic is of great interest to me: which books did the Romanov family bring into exile with them and what did they read during their dreary days of captivity? About 10 years ago, in 2005, I was very fortunate to have the chance to work with the Romanov family books directly – when I did an internship at the Rare Book Department of The Tsarskoe Selo Museum. Their collection consisted of numerous books, many of which had inscriptions of the Romanov family members in them. I will do another story on those later! Read more ROMANOV FAMILY: BOOKS THEY LEFT BEHIND (EKATERINBURG)
His Majesty Tsar Nicholas II, Her Majesty Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna and the ten-month-old Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, arrived in Cherbourg, where they were met by President of France Felix Faure. So began “The Russian week” in France, which ended on 27 September with a parade in Chalon. Read more ROMANOV FAMILY IN PARIS, 1896.
