Question about and/or Help with Picture(s)

Now I am wondering about that photo with Alexis and Anastasia...they both looked tanned,( certainly he looks more so than in the bridge photos so it's at least another day  )  the awnings  are up, he has his gun... hmmmmm...perhaps that was taken in 1916. Imp has on a similar  outfit from the Petehof photo( though with diffrent stockings) and Alexis looks a bit younger

Interesting. Yeah it could easily be 1916 I suppose although the Imp looks a little more grown in that photo with Alexei than the one you just posted here BlessOTMA. Of course it's hard to really analyze the age differences between two relatively blurry black & white photos shot from a distance and having been taken probably no more than a year apart...

Oh while I was typing I see edubs31 posted! Thank you for working out the time frames! ...always a challenge for me!
Amazing AN got to keep his rifle that long!

My pleasure :-) And yes Alexei must have kept his rifle pretty well concealed if this photo was taken during captivity. Or maybe he just didn't bother wearing and playing with it outside until the weather warmed up. Average temps in St. Petersburg are over 60 in May and approaching 70 in June, but below 50 in April and typically quite chilly in March...

I am asking simply because the Heir was wearing the same uniform like in this one :



And the place is the same. Well , there are two possible options : - either these were both taken in 1917 (the second one surely was, it is in Anastasia's 1917 album) at the same time/place, or the first one was taken somewhere during the war. What do you think? There are several photos of Heir taken in 1917, with the same uniform, this included :

Both of these photos were taken in captivity at Tsarskoe Selo. They appear on the same page of Anastasia's 1917 photo album, visible on page 360 of Nicholas & Alexandra: The Last Imperial Family of Tsarist Russia.

And there you have it! Thanks Sarah :-)