

Photo from 1896
NIcholas, Alexandra (with her dog Ara), Olga Alexandrovna, Xenia Alexandrovna, Alexander Mikhailovich and Mikhail Alexandrovich. GARF 662-2-77 no.17


NIcholas, Alexandra (with her dog Ara), Olga Alexandrovna, Xenia Alexandrovna, Alexander Mikhailovich and Mikhail Alexandrovich. GARF 662-2-77 no.17
Empress Alexandra on the Standart, 1910. GARF 673-1-231 No. 701.
From Tatiana's 1912 - 1913 album, GARF 651-1-261, photo No. 176, on their summer 1912 cruise. As Olga is holding a huge bunch of flowers, I wonder if this photo was taken on her Namesday.
Summer 1913 in Crimea. Grand Duchesses Maria, Anastasia, Olga and Tatiana with Nadezhda Petrovna Apraxina and Nikolai Petrovich Apraxin. GARF 651-1-262 No 289.
Nikolai (Kolya) 1910-1941 was arrested in Estonia in 1940, and shot in Leningrad in 1941.
Nadezhda (Nadia) 1911-2002 was a God-daughter of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. She married Gleb Glebovich Makarov, a noble from Yaroslavl. She died in Brussels.
They had 2 younger brothers and a younger sister (Martha 1913-1968, Vladimir 1915-1993 and Andrei 1917 - 1992.) Their father, Peter Nikolaevich Apraxin (1876 - 1962) was the Governor of Tavrichesky and Vice-Governor of Voronezh. From 1913 - 1917 he was the Empress's secretary-manager, from 1914, he headed the military hospitals and charitable committees of the Empress.