ANASTASIA WAS 17 ON THIS DATE, 1918
June 18, 2015
Anastasia celebrated her birthday with the meringues improvised by the loyal cook, Kharitonov. She remained in the high spirits which had characterized her life. Here she is- as a baby- that fourth daughter the Empire was so distressed to see come into the world! But loved within her family- She was a playful if inattentive […]
ANASTASIA’S BIRTHDAY CAKE IN THE IPATIEV MANSION
June 16, 2015
Anastasia would celebrate her last birthday On June 18th 1918- she would be killed one month later- but as her birthday approached, the family and the servants tried to create a festive event- The cook Kharitonov was ingenious and whipped up meringues from egg whites- meringues were a favorite Russian dessert- as frilly dollops or […]
Poignant Last Birthdays for Tatiana, Anastasia and Marie
June 12, 2015
In June, after their mother’s June 6 birthday, Tatiana (June 10) Anastasia (June 18) and Marie (June 26) “celebrated” their last birthdays in The house of Special Purpose. The Romanovs as always cherished being together and managed to give love and share their hopes on those dates. Marie’s was the most fateful as it fell […]
ROMANOV FAMILY FINAL BIRTHDAYS
June 7, 2015
The tragedy of the Romanovs was compounded by the early deaths of the family and their attempts to “celebrate” their final birthdays while in captivity in The House of Special Purpose. Almost the entire family had spring into summer birthdates. Only Olga was born in the Fall and of course she never reached that 23rd […]
MY FAMILY HISTORY-FROM RUSSIA TO AMERICA
June 2, 2015
In 1906, my grandparents fled Russia. They left by ship, The Carmania, and sailed through from Liverpool to Ellis Island, New York City. They escaped with the clothes on their backs (“our best clothes” my grandmother always emphasized.) The women wore beautiful white lace “waists”, ankle-length skirts, high button shoes; the men were well-turned out […]
IN “THE HOUSE OF SPECIAL PURPOSE”
May 31, 2015
Marie arrived at the Ipatiev Mansion with her mother and father under frightening conditions. They had to leave Alexei behind, in the care of the other sisters Olga, Tatiana and Anastasia and most of their staff in Tobolsk. Their train was seized by militant Ural Bolsheviks and they were imprisoned much more rigidly and under […]
THE FINAL JOURNEY TO EKATERINBURG
May 20, 2015
On this day May 20th 1918 the Romanov children left behind in Tobolsk undertook the journey to rejoin their parents and Marie who were already imprisoned in Ekaterinburg in the Ipatiev mansion. They had been unable to travel in April with their parents because Alexei had a severe hemophiliac attack …It was almost a month […]
THE PASSION OF MARIE ROMANOV #1 AMAZON KINDLE
April 15, 2015
Thank you to my readers, older and younger, who have given my book such support and so many beautiful reviews- 107 5*! This is deeply appreciated and my truest reward for so many years of research. I shall continue to seek out new bits of information and photographs that may be new to you. http://www.amazon.com/Passion-Marie-Romanov-Laura-Rose-ebook/dp/B00K0IRXHU/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8 […]
EASTERN ORTHODOX SUNDAY IN CAPTIVITY 1917
April 12, 2015
Easter Sunday has a deep significance for the devout Romanov family. They would spend the last 2 Easters of their lives in captivity. Eastern Orthodox Pascha found the family imprisoned in the Alexander Palace – the children still sick, Alexandra praying in her private chapel. Her most significant icon was paraded through the sickroom.she decided […]
MORE PHOTOS FROM EARLY CAPTIVITY
April 8, 2015