RUSSIAN HOSPITAL TRAINS 1914
February 24, 2016
Amazing images of Imperial Russia’s richest and most beautiful heiress, Zinaida Yusupov, and the hospital train she sent to the front in WWI to save horribly wounded troops. Her story is fascinating, Russian hospital trains are an amazing story- During W.W. I, many of the Russian aristocrats financed the creation and operation of hospital trains. […]
DRUNKEN BOLSHEVIKS LOOT WINTER PALACE WINE CELLAR
February 20, 2016
It was essential to Soviet propaganda that the people who took power in the storming of the Winter Palace were disciplined soldiers. “In fact, what took place immediately after the storming of the Winter Palace cast a large shadow of doubt over that. Because when they took the Winter Palace, they found in its basement […]
WINTER PALACE – BEFORE AND AFTER THE REVOLUTION
February 8, 2016
The spectacular winter palace which the Romanovs didn’t enjoy- too cold, too big, too pretentious. They tended to get sick when they stayed there. they also knew they were too vulnerable to terrorists when they stayed there. Nicholas II’s grandfather had died there, blown to smithereens, and Nicholas as little boy had been at his […]
WOMEN’S BATTALION OF DEATH
February 1, 2016
Exciting new photos and facts regarding the Women’s Battalion of Death which fought the Germans in WW I and later fought with the Kerensky Brigade for the Provisional Government. Led by Maria Bochkareva- who was personally appointed by the Tsar Nicholas II. The most startling battle in 1917 showed this female force charging forward while […]
LENIN- FANTASTIC FACTS AND SECRETS
January 23, 2016
On the anniversary of Lenin’s death (January 21 1924 New Style) , I began to read about Vladimir Lenin (actual name Ulyanov) and fantastic facts and secrets soon emerged- I was interested of course because he is alleged to have directed the execution of the Romanov Family on July 16/17 1918. The actual killing was […]
BREASTFEEDING-TSARINA ALEXANDRA STYLE
January 21, 2016
From Nicholas II letters, as reprised by Bob Atchison on The Alexandra Palace Time Machine: Nicky wrote of their first baby Olga, who weighed in at 10 pounds–the physician had to use forceps but– “. . . Thank God is all well; but the baby does not want to take her breast, so we had […]
FASCINATING HISTORY OF NICHOLAS II AND ALEXANDRA’S “COSTUMES” at THE 1903 BALL
January 17, 2016
Amazing! I looked into the history of the costumes Nicholas II and Alexandra wore to the 1903 ball and discovered they were the robes worn by Alexei I and his bride Maria Miloslavskaya in 1648. Their story is astonishing and certain patterns were reprised by Nicholas and Alexandra: Both Alexei and Nicholas became Tsars when […]
THE LAST TWO ROMANOV BALLS- 1903 and 1913-Which one WAS the last Imperial Ball?
January 13, 2016
Which Romanov Ball was the last? One was held in 1902, the other in 1913- to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Romanov Dynasty. Both balls were costume balls, featured dress from the 17th century. Both balls were held in The Winter Palace in St.Petersburg. The difference? The experts say that the 1903 WAS the […]
RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHRISTMAS
January 7, 2016
ROMANOVS’ ROMANCE WITH SNOW
December 28, 2015
The Romanovs very name connotes romance, roman (novel) and there was nothing more Russian or romantic than their love of snow. Some people built sand castles- the Romanovs constructed elaborate snow mountains- some as high as four story buildings! The construction was similar to building pyramids or igloos- they worked with firm blocks of hard […]