Letters from Tatiana

[Mathematic, art and history in ♥]

I am so glad about good news, Raegan.
Thank you!

A rough translation using Google Translator:
A letter of Tatiana to ZS Tolstoy 6 November 1917

I read a lot. I decided to read all the books of our best writers from the beginning to the end! I also read books in English and French. I’m working wih Alexei in Russian History which I love…

I have a very different translation of that letter in my digital files:

6/19 November 1917
(Tobolsk) 6th November 1917.
I send to you all four icons from Mama and all of us. They were lying on the relics of St. John Maximovitch of Tobolsk. Unfortunately, we were not allowed to go there.
Tatiana.


I'll have to check my books when I get home and see if Tatiana wrote to Zinadia twice that day, or if these are both excerpts from one longer letter.

A rough translation using Google Translator:
A letter of Tatiana to ZS Tolstoy 6 November 1917

I read a lot. I decided to read all the books of our best writers from the beginning to the end! I also read books in English and French. I’m working wih Alexei in Russian History which I love…

Figured it out -- this is part of a letter from Nicholas to Ksenia. ;-)

Thank you, "Sarushka" for the corrections to Reply # 91 's attribution ( i.e.  It was NOT from "a letter from the GDuchess Titania to ZS Tolstoy", but rather it was from a letter of the Emperor Nicholas to his sister, as you have pointed out.  The same poster made another attribution error also today in the subject "Ekaterinburg Letters," (Reply 17) by attributing part of a letter's contents to the GDuchess Anastasia ( "If you see me so calm.....") when indeed it was  "a statement in 1906" from the Emperor Nicholas II, and I believe that you also corrected that one as well.  The poster needs to be more careful in such postings; this is how errors are spread and how the poster can deceive even herself in a rush to "contribute."    AP

Aww.Google translator is so bad. I'm so sorry for the misinformation.

The clumsy visual layout of the site where you found those letters is partly to blame. I know enough Russian to get by, and I nearly made similar mistakes myself. It's easy to mismatch the letters with the sets of names and dates if you're not at the top or the bottom of the page -- especially if you don't know Russian.

These are from  letters of Tatiana in pics. I just typed its contents for everybody’s share. Has anyone from you able to read these before? I’m so sorry if these had been posted before [if they are].

1915

Mama darling mine,
 Please give Ania this photo of [illegible] I did at Krasnoe during the review. I’m sure she will be very pleased that he is here. Mama sweet, I’m so awfully sad. I see so little of you. I hate going away for so long. Really, we never see you now. It doesn’t matter if sisters go earlier to bed––I’ll remain. For me it’s better to sleep less and see more of you, my beloved one. God bless you, deary, 1000 kisses to you and Papa dear.
Your own true loving child, Tatiana.

18 February 1911

Darling Dicky,

How are you now? I hope you feel better and can go to {illegible; looks like the word ‘school’ but it’s spelled as ‘scool’] Please write to me how you are. We were all 4 in the [illegible] it was very nice.
Now good-bye.
Many kisses from your loving cousin,
Tatiana.

[Mathematic, art and history in ♥]

Can you please post photos of letters - I think she means 'during maneuvers at Krasnoe Selo'.  ;-)

Thanks , Sarushka!

She wrote very beautiful

She wrote very beautiful

Personally, I think Tatiana wrote most untidy of her sisters. I have no problems reading Marie or Olga's letters/diary entries, but Tatiana's give me an incredibly hard time... : )

That's her way of making herself totally unique from her sisters. I agree with you, Tina, with what you said and I also agree with Alzbeta with her opinion.

I agree with you Grand Princess Shandroise :-)
Just a personal point of view

[Tatiana Nikolaevna to V. I Chebotareva- 9 December 1917]

Tatiana Nikolaevna to V. I Chebotareva- 9 December 1917
…We’re like living in a faraway place and that we get to another world. Many stupid rumors are written in the newspapers that you probably read but all of them are untrue. We even have a newspaper clipping which said of my escape to America! I hope that you will not believe it. I wonder who made these silly inventions…

From Vel. Knzh. Tatiana Nikolaevna to ZS Tolstoya
Tsarskoe Selo, 23 June 1917
Dearest ZS,
   I am terrible ashamed that I still have not thanked you for your letter on the 29th of May and the lovely embroidered bags. I took the bluish one with multicolored flowers, Olga-blue with yellow roses, Anastasia- pink, and Maria- all yellow. They are very useful and those always remind us of you. Mom always takes her bag to the garden with a book or something else. The weather here is warm all the time, then comes heavy rain and it became much lighter. But, we need the rain more as it’s very dry around us. How are you all? Does your husband read aloud to you while you work? In the evenings after we have our dinner, we all work too while Papa reads to us. We are now finishing the sixth volume of the book “Le Comte de Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas.
Do you know it? It is extremely interesting. Earlier, we have read about different detectives which are also interesting. Well, goodbye, dear ZS. I will wait for your letters. I strongly kiss you and also Dalechka. Greetings to your husband and Sergei. Remove the sticker and send me your card. I will be very glad to have it.
Tatiana+