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March 31, 2015
Thank you, all my dear readers-The Passion of Marie Romanov is #1 Bestselling Kindle in literature and Russian history and also for teen literature & #3 in paperbacks! I am so grateful to you all and very excited.
MARCH 1917 ROMANOVS UNDER PALACE ARREST – KERENSKY APPEARS
March 27, 2015
[amazon AmazonEnraptured and obsessed as I am with the Romanovs, I have been researching their captivity under the Provisional Government led by Alexander Kerensky- My uncle actually met Kerensky in NYC- he often ate at Bickford’s Cafeteria on Broadway in the 70s Upper West Side Manhattan- where all the old Russians hung out for tea […]
March 22 1917 from “THE PASSION OF MARIE ROMANOV”
March 22, 2015
Every year, Alexandra gave her children each a silk covered diary. Marie wrote for as long as she could in her 1916 diary- adding 1917 notes and entries in 1918 until her life ended..”Later, I learned from the good doctor, that as severe as The Big Pair’s illness had been, it was I who suffered […]
MARCH 22 1917 A FROZEN RETURN TO TSARSKOE SELO
March 21, 2015
In these two photographs, we can see that the Palace Park canals were frozen and when Nicholas returned, as soon as the children were well, they all turned to breaking up the ice. In the first, Olga, always willing to do physical work, sets to ice-breaking with the guards.The image of Alexei, sitting in a […]
MARCH 21 1917 THE WAIT FOR NICHOLAS TO RETURN
March 20, 2015
Marie was the last of the children to fall sick with the measles- she had been able to help her mother until then…by the time Marie caught the disease, her sisters were recovering…All were very tense, waiting for Nicholas to return..Back at Mogliev, the military camp, he had said farewell to his troops and was back […]
March 18 1917 REAL TIME ROMANOV CALENDAR
March 19, 2015
“Madame, it distresses me to appear discourteous but I fear I am about to be killed. The doors of this room are being forced!” His voice ceased. There was a terrible crash—so loud we all heard it in the telegraph room. Then silence.On the phone to the Winter Palace-Prince Ratief told Lili Dehn he was […]
March 16 1917 THE TSAR WITH HIS MOTHER ON THE TRAIN
March 16, 2015
Nicholas II, his empire lost, had a visit on the snowbound formerly imperial train, from his mother, the petite former Tsarina, Maria Feodorovna, who had warned him against Rasputin and his behavior with Alexandra and the grand duchesses. Meanwhile, back at the Alexander Palace, the girls were terribly sick – and Lady in Waiting Anya […]
MARCH 15 1917 ABDICATION of TSAR NICHOLAS II
March 15, 2015
“the Ides of March”: and Tsar Nicholas II always a fatalist, referred to Julius Caesar’s warning re the Ides of March. Feeling betrayed, corner, he signed the papers and gave up his empire. He at first abdicated to Alexei, then fearing for the boy, to his brother Michael who quickly abdicated and the provisional government […]
APPROACHING ABDICATION
March 14, 2015
On this date in 1917, Nicholas II was being held in his Imperial train and being forced to abdicate. At his preferred cherished home, the family quarters of the Alexander Palace, the family was in a crisis- 4 of the 5 children had acute measles. Only Marie seemed free of the then often fatal disease. […]
“REAL LIFE” 1917 ROMANOV CALENDAR STARTS TODAY MARCH 13 1917
March 13, 2015
From the novel The Passion of Marie Romanov- writings inspired by actual events of the last year in the life of Marie Romanov -written on the last night of her life- “When I look back, as I must in the short time allotted to me now, i can see the exact moment when our lives […]