REMBRANCES OF ROMANOVS’ LAST CHRISTMAS
December 14, 2015
Almost a century after their brutal murder, the remembrances of Romanov Christmas’s surface on the web: poignant hand made cards by the children, an image of Tatiana’s gift- a diary for her mother, postcards given to the public…The former Imperial Christmases were elaborate- 8 Christmas trees in the Alexander Palace, a long procession of servants, […]
FATAL and PASSIONATE PATTERNS OF THE TSARS
December 2, 2015
I suppose it could be viewed as good news, in a grisly sense: When the exhumation of Alexander III occurred earlier this week, it was apparent that his sarcophagus had not been previous opened- which had been feared. Now it is open and the clergy and DNA specialists shall take what evidence they feel they […]
TATIANA’S TERRIBLE ILLNESS IN 1913
November 12, 2015
Often, photos of Tatiana with her head shaved or showing her with cropped hair are mistakenly identified as 1917, when all the girls heads were shaved after measles. It is an easy mistaken conclusion as Tatiana’s head was shaved twice- The first time after a near fatal bout with typhus (the disease that killed Anne […]
TSAR ALEXANDER II ALSO TO BE EXHUMED IN DNA PROBE
October 27, 2015
In the latest disrespectful step in the unnecessary attempts to establish what we already know- that the last two Romanov children found in 2007 in the Topkapi Forest outside Ekaterinburg are in fact teh remains of Alexei and Marie- not only have their parents, Nicholas and Alexandra been exhumed and their great grandfather Alexander III […]
DR.BOTKIN’S PROPHETIC DYING LETTER
October 18, 2015
After the massacre, White Army investigators went into the Ipatiev Mansion and found the following unfinished letter, which Dr. Botkin had begun writing to his brother Alexander only minutes before the executioner Yakov Yurovsky knocked on the door: “I am making a last attempt at writing a real letter – at least from here – […]
TRAGIC AFTERMATH FOR THE LOYAL ROMANOV SUITE
October 14, 2015
There is breaking news that the four devoted persons who followed the Romanovs into captivity and shared their brutal fate in the Ipatiev Mansion may be canonized: That would be Dr.Yeveny (Eugene) Botkin, Nyuta (Anna Demidova), Ivan Kharitonov, the chef, and Alexei Trupp, the Tsarina’s personal valet. At least two of this suite feared execution: […]
BLOOD TRAIL TO ROMANOV DNA EVIDENCE
September 30, 2015
This bloodied jacket from the assassinated Alexander II has been taken as evidence for DNA in the current search for my clues for more information to justify the burial site and interrment of the Romanovs. Tragic Footnotes to history: When scientists first searched for Nicholas II’s own DNA- they found some on the bloodied […]
NEW EXHUMATION OF ROMANOV BODIES
September 28, 2015
The world and especially the Romanov-interest groups are intently caught up in the latest news:That the bodies of Nicholas and Alexandra will be exhumed and new DNA samples taken, as well as from Alexandra’s sister, Elizabeth, who was also butchered and left to die in a mine pit by the Bolsheviks in l918. Elizabeth was […]
EARLIER TRAUMAS OF THE ROMANOV CHILDREN
September 20, 2015
Vicki Raley, one of my FB correspondents mentioned that she too saw a haunting sadness deep in the eyes of the adolescent Romanov girls…and I have been considering the reasons this is so- even long before the Revolution. I do believe their collective trauma began with Alexei’s birth and the foreshadowing of his likely death […]
LAST HEAVENLY SUMMER FOR THE ROMANOVS
September 6, 2015
Summer 1916 found the Romanovs basking in their Standardt cruise, dancing on deck, alighting on Finnish Islands and also picnicking on banks of the Dneper River. It was the last of their golden, warm and loving idylls- for the next summer 1917 they were incarcerated at Tsarskoe Selo, moved to Tobolsk in August, and the […]