ROMANOV FAMILY: OTMA KEEPSAKE ALBUM
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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QUEEN VICTORIA AND TSAR ALEXANDER II: WOULD-BE ROMANCE AND MUTUAL DESCENDANTS
In the Spring of 1839, the heir to throne of Russia, Tsarevich Alexander Nikolaevich Romanov, visited England and met its new young queen, Victoria. Future Tsar Alexander II was a year older than the unmarried Queen of England, who was only 20 years old. Read more QUEEN VICTORIA AND TSAR ALEXANDER II: WOULD-BE ROMANCE AND MUTUAL DESCENDANTS
ALEXANDER PALACE: LAST IMPERIAL RESIDENCE OF THE ROMANOV FAMILY CLOSED UNTIL 2018!
Alexander Palace in Tsarskoe Selo – the last residence of the Romanov family before the Russian revolution – is closed to visitors for the next three years: until the year 2018. The palace will undergo some large scale renovations in order to fix major structural problem as well as restorations to bring it back to its original look prior to 1917, when the Romanov family resided there. Read more ALEXANDER PALACE: LAST IMPERIAL RESIDENCE OF THE ROMANOV FAMILY CLOSED UNTIL 2018!
THE DIARY OF ALEXEI ROMANOV (1916)
From the 1916 diary of Alexei Romanov:
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ROMANOV DYNASTY: A BRIEF HISTORY
ROMANOV DYNASTY: A BRIEF HISTORY
The Romanov Dynasty also known as “The House of Romanov” was the second imperial dynasty (after the Rurik dynasty) to rule Russia. The Romanov family reigned from 1613 until the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II on March 15, 1917, as a result of the Russian Revolution.
The direct male line of the Romanov family came to an end when Empress Elizabeth died in 1762. The House of Holstein-Gottorp, a branch of the House of Oldenburg, ascended the throne in 1762 with Peter III, a grandson of Peter the Great. Hence, all Russian monarchs from the mid-18th century to the Russian Revolution descended from that branch. In early 1917 the extended Romanov family had 65 members, 18 of whom were killed by the Bolsheviks. The remaining 47 members escaped abroad. Read more ROMANOV DYNASTY: A BRIEF HISTORY
ROMANOV FAMILY AND VOLTAIRE
The article below was translated from Russian by Helen Azar.
Note from the translator:
When I first showed up at the Tsarskoe Selo Rare Book Fond for my library school internship, I found out that they just made an amazing discovery: two previously unidentified books from the vast collection of books once owned by the famous French philosopher, François-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire. At this time, it was thought that all of Voltaire’s books, which were brought to Russia by Empress Catherine the Great upon his death, were accounted for, and thousands of his marginalia had been transcribed and published. But it seemed that two of these books slipped through the proverbial cracks. Voltaire’s handwriting in the marginalia of these two books, held for years in The Rare Book Fond at the Tsarskoe Selo Museum. Somehow no one recognized them for what they were, for all these years. Read more ROMANOV FAMILY AND VOLTAIRE
