Re: Re: Photos of Nicholas II #5

Ella, Nicholas and a Yorkie...who looks very interesting in what the Tsar of all the Russia's is eating

Great photo! Nicholasha towers over NII, but NII is so well proportioned that Nicholasha doesn't dwarf him. All that chinning up, walking, rowing and tennis pays off.

In spite of NII's level of fitness, he looks like a real shorty comparatively. His being so small was a perceptual problem for himself and others. He definitely did not respond to his size the way Napoleon did.

You mean he didn't have a Napoleon complex? Well, he did prefer to address troops on horseback, since he was more imposing that way, and he tended to look much taller sitting down. Or maybe I just like short men ...

Msge 487. Do we know what the occasion was?

Ann

Msge 487. Do we know what the occasion was?

Ann

They are hunting in Skierniewice, Poland 1902.

what year was it? I know for sure they were in skierniewice in 1903. and probaby 1907, 1909 but i`m not sure. as far as I remember they went to skierniewice every second year.

gd vladimir alexandrovcih died in 1909 so it must have been earlier

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(Approx. 1915.)

Wow, check out the hood ornament ...

This was taken before the Nazis twisted the original meaning of the swastika to suit their own ghastly ideals.

Nicholas holding Alexis and Alix taking their photo ....1906

This was taken before the Nazis twisted the original meaning of the swastika to suit their own ghastly ideals.

I realize that. In fact, in the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Wheeling, WV, built in the early 1920's, there are swastika tiles in the flooring of the main aisle. One of them is chipped around the edges, where workers began to remove them during a renovation. It was decided, however, to leave them, because they were originally a religious symbol and part of the history of the cathedral.

That's interesting. I didn't know that. One of the reasons I love this forum!

There is a lot of information on the origins of the Swastika in this forum.  Use the search engine and you will find that it is a shame that the Nazi's perverted it for their own use.  It has a lovely past meaning in quite a few religions.

I feel sorry for those who would still use it for the original intent who can now not use it all.  It is too bad that we can't separate the symbol from those who prevented its meaning.  It is sort of like the stupidity during the first Gulf War when Americans started calling French Fries Freedom Fries because the French would not send troops into combat at that time. (Americans didn't stop eating the fries, though.)

During The Great War even poor Dachshunds and German Shepherds suffered because their names were German in origin.

In WWII Japanese Americans and Italian Americans were put into internment camps (which were just concentration camps as they concentrated people of like background in the same place) because of their national background.

But, as usual, I digress.  Time to get off my "soap box" and back to the original topic of this thread.

Alixz

Digressing as well, but I think you should be careful about referring to internment camps for Japanese Americans as concentration camps, because they were nothing like the German camps. Those interned there were detained, but the camps were really quite comfortable and could not be compared with places like Belsen.

Ann