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Image 1 — Photo from 1896
Image 2 — Photo from 1896

Photo from 1896

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

u/GeorgiyH — 4 days ago

A favourite photo of Empress Alexandra

Empress Alexandra on the Standart, 1910. GARF 673-1-231 No. 701.

u/GeorgiyH — 5 days ago
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The Grand Duchesses, 1912

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.

u/GeorgiyH — 15 days ago

1913 The Grand Duchesses with Nadia and Kolya Apraxin

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.

u/GeorgiyH — 29 days ago