Maria's diary/journal

kinda didn´t know where to post this...

Maria´s excercise book and a letter

Ally the letter you post i can translate it if you want... It's to her mother and she is saying "May dear mother!
Please pass this letter on english(?) .Soon Anastasiya will writte you a letter.I'm writting to you at 7 o clock .... Anastasia тожо.... (it's hidden) And the last thing i can see is Mother Dear.....Hmmm it's a letter written to Alix on 19 February 1910 at Tsarskoe Selo but i don't know where Alix was...

Hmmm it's a letter written to Alix on 19 February 1910 at Tsarskoe Selo but i don't know where Alix was...

The empress was probably downstairs in her own rooms. It was common for the IF to write each other short notes even when they were all at home.

Thank you Ellly!

Hmmm it's a letter written to Alix on 19 February 1910 at Tsarskoe Selo but i don't know where Alix was...

The empress was probably downstairs in her own rooms. It was common for the IF to write each other short notes even when they were all at home.

Mmm yes probably because i think it was 7 am ... and i can see part at the end of the later where is saying "Hope you slept well"

Thank you Ellly!

No problem it's great fun to translate...Do you have more such letters (on picture i mean)

Are there letters/diary entries of Masha about seeing her pet mouse? or where she's saying something like Nastya's such a swine...
I haven't heard her saying something like that of the latter.

P.S. If there are just any....

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We have two possibilities : yes and no. If we choose yes, then we must keep in minds only 3 volumes survived - 1912, 1913, 1916 , since she burned rest in April of 1918,  and no all entries were published.

So, possibility is big she had that entry. Same thing with letters, since, honestly, never read her letters completely, and never heard of her having pet mouse. wow.   ;-)

I read that on OTMA's biography in the APTM site.
All her diary entries and letters are not entirely published yet, likewise the the OTA's.

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Olga's 1913 was published, I know.

Yes Sarushka opened thread about book:

1913 Diary of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaievna, transl. by Marina Petrov

The whole diary? Could you please provide a link for it or could it be found somewhere here?

Yes, the entire 1913 diary was published through Gilbert's Royal Books by Raegan Baker, an AP member.

More info here, including a direct link to GRB's bookshop.


Another source for excerpts of OTMA's letters and diaries is Royal Sisters of Mercy. It includes portions of OTM's wartime diaries, as well as letters by all four girls to Nicholas at Stavka. It's only available in Russian, but in my opinion it's an even better source on OTMA than A Lifelong Passion.

We have two possibilities : yes and no. If we choose yes, then we must keep in minds only 3 volumes survived - 1912, 1913, 1916 , since she burned rest in April of 1918,  and no all entries were published.

Can you explain me better why she and OTA burned their diaries?Why they didn't hide them...

Only Maria and Anastasia burned their diaries. My guess is that they simply didn´t want somebody else to read them. They were two teenage girls, just changing into women. There may have been very private thoughts.

Ah which we will never know...But OT never did it.....

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Strongly spoken, only Anastasia burned all her diaries.

Also, Maria tried, but those three volumes survived. If only Anya's diaries have been lost, or, I don't want to believe, destroyed...