The Children of Tsar Nicholas II ("OTMAA")

[Olyashka]

Yes she rarely joined them. But we can't blame her: the guards weren't glad seeing her. But there's a cute story which took place in Tsarskoe Selo captivity period which Baroness Buxhoeveden recounted in her book in Alix. There it's stated one soldier confronted her with many questions about her love for Russia (as he doubted her love for their country). Alix responded that she really wanted to tour around the country however the consecutive birth of her children and taking care of them herself (she was indeed a hands-on parent if you read more about her) and her subsequent illnesses (her heart problem, sciatica) all precluded her from doing so. The guard was impressed by her openness and kindness that Baroness Buxhoeveden noticed him eventually softening towards the Empress. Their conversation actually went on after those question and answer portion. God know what they talked about and I'm sad it's not possible for Sophie B. to write them down :'( Next time when the Empress came out, that very soldier began helping the Empress whenever he could. Beautiful story..

People here, there are actually lots of books about them currently published - mostly collection of their letters - they are fantastic to read (for fans of course, hehe). However don't ask me how they are or how the books give more info about the children because I haven't bought even one of those books~ I just depended my opinion upon buyers' comments.

[Cory]

ROYAL RUSSIA: News, Videos & Photographs About the Romanov Dynasty, Monarchy and Imperial Russia - Updated Daily

[Rudolph]

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has tasked a working group with studying and reburying the remains of two members of the Romanov royal family who were murdered by Bolshevik revolutionaries almost 100 years ago.

Crown Prince Alexei and Grand Duchess Maria were executed along with their other siblings and parents — Tsar Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra — and family servants in the basement of a house they were being kept in in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg in 1918 as royalist forces closed in on the city.

More: Working Group Set Up for Remains of Russia's Last Royal Family | News | The Moscow Times

[CyrilVladisla]

Four sweet sisters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHQWpcpJVM0

[Curryong]

They were lovely, so sweet, so innocent....

[Blog Real]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6ekNmhkhhU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un959fWvq6U

[Blog Real]

Tsarevich Alexei:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTE6pS5lntc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqhTXIeZotk

[M. Payton]

The cruelty of mankind directed on innocent children......seeing pictures of the royal children always reminds me of such.......time and time again mankind is cruel and horrifying.

[Denville]

Originally Posted by M. Payton

The cruelty of mankind directed on innocent children......seeing pictures of the royal children always reminds me of such.......time and time again mankind is cruel and horrifying.

There is plenty of cruelty towards children, not just royal ones.....

[M. Payton]

I know that yet my comment was referring to the picture posted here, no lecture needed to tell me the cruel ways of men and war towards children and women.....I have plenty of history books that tell the stories.

[Curryong]

And some of us have personal experience of such things as well. However, although we all know of cruelties in wars and all over the world, I agree that there is something very compelling about the murder of these four young girls and boy. I sometimes can't look at pictures of them all in happier times without getting a lump in my throat about their fate.

[CyrilVladisla]

Belongings of the Imperial children

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEN9kv683Yc

[Blog Real]

Olga with her mother, Alexandra, and her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ynE1EVQHwd...00/BNMnk07.jpg

[victor1319]

Sorry, but for me at least the link does not work.

The "Romanov - Royal Martyrs" Channel at youtube, which I have linked before, has a new vid with a collection of pictures of the Imperial Family in captivity. A lot of OTMAA pics as well....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7bKkyttlR4

I think it is a really moving, what "ordinary" stuff the family did while awaiting their fate.

[Blog Real]

Originally Posted by victor1319

Sorry, but for me at least the link does not work.

It works for me.

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ynE1EVQHw...00/BNMnk07.jpg

[eya]

The remains of the children of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II, Grand Duchess Maria and Tsesarevich Alexei may be buried in 2021, announced by Princess Olga Andreevna Romanov, President of the Romanov Family Association.

"“We want (Tsesarevich Alexei and Grand Duchess Maria) to be buried next to their parents and sisters. We have always dreamed that they would be buried in the Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral in Saint Petersburg,” TASS quoted her as saying. According to the Princess, due to restrictions imposed by the Coronavirus, the burial may take place in 2021. Thus, the 103rd anniversary of their death would be marked."


https://tass.ru/obschestvo/8991569

[AC21091968]

Marina Amaral has released a series of linked tweets containing photographs of Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaievich of Russia. There are also snippets of letters from Maria and Anastasia to Tsar Nicholas II. I think there are at least two photos in Marina Amaral's tweet with Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna.

https://twitter.com/marinamaral2/sta...80887767891980

Marina Amaral has been working on the project #Romanovs100, which "is an online educational narrative — a research into history through the visual language of photography combined with the digital reality of social media.".
https://romanovs100.com/

[duchessrachel]

Originally Posted by eya

The remains of the children of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II, Grand Duchess Maria and Tsesarevich Alexei may be buried in 2021, announced by Princess Olga Andreevna Romanov, President of the Romanov Family Association.

"“We want (Tsesarevich Alexei and Grand Duchess Maria) to be buried next to their parents and sisters. We have always dreamed that they would be buried in the Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral in Saint Petersburg,” TASS quoted her as saying. According to the Princess, due to restrictions imposed by the Coronavirus, the burial may take place in 2021. Thus, the 103rd anniversary of their death would be marked."


https://tass.ru/obschestvo/8991569

I have recently been reading books about the Romanovs and is it factual that the remains found with Alexei are Marie? I know there was some disagreement in the books I read about whether they were Marie or Anastasia. I am just wondering as I have recently gotten very interested in learning about them.

[Alison H]

I don't think they honestly know for sure. They can tell the approximate age, but Marie and Anastasia were only 2 years apart - it'd presumably be easier with younger children as there'd be more development in a short time, but I suppose you don't really change much between 17 and 19. Most sources say that they originally found Anastasia with the two elder girls and the parents, and then Marie with Alexei, but I don't think anyone's 100% sure.

[duchessrachel]

Originally Posted by Alison H

I don't think they honestly know for sure. They can tell the approximate age, but Marie and Anastasia were only 2 years apart - it'd presumably be easier with younger children as there'd be more development in a short time, but I suppose you don't really change much between 17 and 19. Most sources say that they originally found Anastasia with the two elder girls and the parents, and then Marie with Alexei, but I don't think anyone's 100% sure.

Thank you. I am about to read a fifth book on this family in one month. Their story is so interesting but so tragic.