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Today, June 14th, is Maria Romanov's birthday. ;D
So...Happy Birthday Maria!
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/130000/images/_132464_maria_romanov_150.jpg)
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Happy Birthday Maria Nikolaevna!You are always in our thoughts this day and everyday. :D
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That's one of my favorite photos of Marie; thank you for posting it, Brielle14.
And Happy Birthday indeed to this "angel" with the precariously long wings, who yearned so much for that which she would never have.
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Happy birthday Maria!!! In our hearts forever!
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Happy Birthday Maria! ;) We'll never forget you!
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Happy birthday sweet Marie.
Sunny
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Sdnyem rozhdyeniya, Maria Nikolaevna!
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Kharasho! kharasho!
Krasanitsa Masha!
Sorry about my pathetic Russian
(good good
Beautiful Masha)
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Tvoi pishyesh rooski ochen harasho, rskkiya! ;D
Sdnyem rozhdyeniya opyat, Mashenka.
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Olga
Spasiba! :D
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Happy 105th Birthday Marie! To think if she would have survived the revolution what great things life had in store for her. I could see her marrying Lord Mountbatten around 1920 and soon thereafter having loads of children. She would serve her post gracefully as the wife of a lord but with humor and cheer. In the end, if she ever made it to 105, she would be remembered as a sweet, beautiful, and honorable woman of the 21st century. If only her life were not cut so short.
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Very interesting! What an image!
Tell me sir....were there any plans for these two, or are you simply being a delightful romantic? ::)
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Nyeh zashta Rskkiya. We should stop this, people probably don't know what we're talking about!
Lord Mountbatten was apparently madly in love with Maria Nikolaevna and kept a photo of her at his bedside right up until the day he was assassinated.
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S dnyom razhdenya,Masha!
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ooo
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Well it's four days after her birthday (a year after the post was started!)! Happy belated Mashka!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR ANGEL MASHKA!!!
Sorry I'm late!
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Happy (Very belated!) Birthay, Maria!!!!
And, by the way...What's wrong being a little romantic, Etonexile? If we weren't all of us a little romantic, what's the use to be member of a Forum like this one, discussing things about a family dead sooo many years ago to be considered? ???
Long live, romanticism! (I don't mean fantasy, but ROMANTICISM. Romantic doesn't see things different than they are, they only are very sensitive and enjoy little sweet things of life that today seems to be fading away as romantic love, family, deep friendship, love for the place where we are born, love for the past, and hope for the future. I just love to be a romantic..and didn't like cinic people a bit. )
RealAnastasia.
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And, by the way...What's wrong being a little romantic, Etonexile? If we weren't all of us a little romantic, what's the use to be member of a Forum like this one, discussing things about a family dead sooo many years ago to be considered? ???
Long live, romanticism! (I don't mean fantasy, but ROMANTICISM. Romantic doesn't see things different than they are, they only are very sensitive and enjoy little sweet things of life that today seems to be fading away as romantic love, family, deep friendship, love for the place where we are born, love for the past, and hope for the future. I just love to be a romantic..and didn't like cinic people a bit. )
RealAnastasia.
Well said! ;D
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Happy b-day, to our sweet dearest Marie!!!
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Happy belated Birthday to Maria. You're always remembered in our hearts, thoughts and prayers+.
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Today, June 27, is Maria's birthday. (Because of the calender, some people thought it was on June 14) Happy birthday, dear Maria! We all love you.
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Happy birthday Mashka!!!! You were so sweet like a angel.
HAPPY BIRHTDAY MARIA
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Dear Mashka,
I am so sorry I am late, I hope you will understand. I wish you a very happy birthday.
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Happy birthday,sorry for the late...
You will be always our dear Angel MAria...
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(sry i'm a little late posting on her b-day!)
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Happy Birthday to her Royal Highness Maria Nicholaievna
Romanov. rest in piece!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY OUR LITTLE ANGEL!!!
One more angel has left us on earth! Pray for us!
The kitten I named "Mashka" after you died yesterday! He was only a month old. I know you will look after him Marie! He loved looking at pictures of you!
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Happy Birthday Mashka.
Holly: I'm so sorry about your cat. I have a cat myself, so it breaks my heart to hear of little kitties dying. :'(
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Hi all, i' m late... by the way, happy birthday Maria, you're my little angel, you're always in my thoughts.... i wish you an happy birthday. R.i.P.
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I know I'm late, but I wanted to wish one of my favorite members of the IF a happy birthday,
Happy Birthday Dear Marie,
I love you as a sister,
you very angelic, sweet
and a great person,
pray for us all,
with love,
~Anastacia~
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Oh, let me subscribe to this Baby_Tsarevich!
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what do you mean? (sorry my english is not perfect)
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Oh, I just mean that those words could be mine :) I feel exactly the same about Maria.
Ps. My English is not perfect either ;D
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ooo ok, lol ;)
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I can't believe there isn't a birthday thread for Maria yet! It's her 107th.
Happy birthday Maria!
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Remember Marie on this day of June 14th/June 27th, 1899, for her 107th birthday.
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Marie Nikolaevna Romanova, Grand Duchess of Russia, also a saint, may she forever R.I.P. Happy birthday! Remember this sweet, wonderful soul, who died only young and shall never be forgotten. Keep her in your hearts. Ever is she missed. :'( +
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Happy Birthday Maria - it's your special day, enjoy it! Lots of love from everyone at the AP Forum :)
Your an angel [smiley=engel017.gif] Maria, you were so sweet, lovable, kind and giving.
Rest In Peace from your best friend,
Em :-*
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My Dear Mashka,
Happy Birthday!
I Never forgot you :)
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Sweet darling Mashka, a happy, happy birthday to you!
Here's a poem for you, I wrote it a couple of weeks ago for your sister Tatiana, and while I can't think of a new one, it's all yours today..
Mashka can't be with us,
on this, her special day..
She isn't here with us,
but her heart is, and it will stay.
If our love can reach you there,
each of us will let you know,
we wish you a happy birthday Mashka,
107 years..So long ago..
I'll never forget you.. (http://img481.imageshack.us/img481/8373/mariacollage4ch.jpg) :-*
Btw, it's my boyfriend's birthday too..Two of the sweetest people ever, are born at June 27th, it must be a lucky day! ;) Happy birthday both :-*
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Hi Mashka, a very happy 107th birthday.......... :'( :'( :)
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:'( :'( :'( :'(
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Happy 107th birthday my dear Mashka! "The Angel of the Best of Us."
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Romanov_Albums/mashka.jpg)
I hope this birthday is a nice one. No one will ever forget you, including me!
Lots of love,
Holly
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Happy birthday, dear Mashka.
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Happy birthday Maria Nicholaievna Romanova
May your rest in peace
Happy birthday to a special friend!
Although I haven't known you many years,
Perhaps because you've dried so many tears,
Pleasure reigns as I these greetings send.
Your happiness should last till all things end!
Because you've been so sweet and understanding--
In toughest times you've made me laugh and smile--
Rejoice in your own specialness awhile:
This I'm not requesting but demanding!
How else to make yourself the celebration,
Doing what does not come naturally?
Always your concern has been for me,
Yet now you must endure my adoration!
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The wings have grown. Say "happy birthday" to your boyfriend from me, Tessel. Those are great poems and collages everyone!
Happy birthday, dearest Mashka
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Happy B Day To one of Heavens sweetest Angels :'(
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you are a true angel maria ,,happy 107th birthday..
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Happy Bithday Maria :)
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:) :) :)
Today, June 14, is Marie's birthday (old style,which applied at the time and place of her birth ,which is good enough for me.)
A very Happy Birthday! to sweet Marie, an angel, a beauty, and finally a saint.
Mashka, always fondly remembered
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Happy Birthday Maria June 14, 2007 you would have been 108 years old !!!
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Imperial Mashka
Maria
you was good like Cinderella
because of how friendly you were
you were a angel
nice and beautiful
both inside and outside
always good and obedient.
you had big blue saucers
she was only a teen
who died at only 19.
and who did not live long enough to be a adult
why?
do you have to leave so early?
Many were afraid of those angelic wings
that was too freindly and placid.
Your destiny was to have 20 children
and mary a Russian soldier
your dreams were crused by those vile bolsheviks
who were dredfully rude and idiotic.
why?
what did you do wrong to be murdered?
it was not your falt
you were so innocent and lonely
rarely ever involed in anything
Rest in peace
Imperial Angel
in our hearts and souls
granting peace and prosperity.
For all eternity +
Valeria
Rest in Peace darling Mashka Angel !!!!
I want you to know that I love you Darling Mashka !!!
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What a beautiful poem, Valeria, I'm sure Maria would appreciate it very much. :)
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Happy Birthday Our Dear Maria. You were so kind and beautiful and strong. I will always think of you.
Holly.
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Thank you Holly!!! :) Your colored picture looks cute I love it Maria looks even more prettier. Her dress in pretty.
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Happy Birthday, sweet Maria! We'll never forget you!
RealAnastasia.
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Happy birthday dreamy Maria, rests in peace
:)
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Happy birthday my dear mashka!
I hope you Rest in peace now
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Happy Birthday Grand Duchess Marie Nicholaievna Romanov
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May you rest in peace in heaven and you will remain in our hearts for eternity
and the world!!
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how old is she now?
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how old is she now?
oh gosh!
a 100 something by now!
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ok lol
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She would be 108 this year I believe.
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She would be 108 this year I believe.
hmm!!
are you sure?
i need to do some math :)
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108 haha ok ^^
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Happy Birthday Masha
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She was indeed born on June 14 Old Style, but that is June 27 on the Western calendar (although in 1899 it was June 26 on the Western Calendar.) She won't posthumously have her 'birthday' for another week and a bit.
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happy belated birthday.
wait is her b-day on the 14 and 26?
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June 27 on the calendar which is used throughout the Western World.
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happy belated birthday.
wait is her b-day on the 14 and 26?
This isn't the most accurate analogy, but it works: Think of the whole Russian/Western calendar as a really BIG time zone. When it was 14 June for Maria, it was 26 June in the west -- just like how when it's 9:47 for me in Michigan, it's 12:47 in Los Angeles. It's the same moment, but we label it differently.
Now imagine everybody but Russia switched to daylight savings time in 1900. That made Maria's birthday 27 June outside of Russia.
Celebrating Maria's birthday on 14 June in the west is like setting your clocks to New York time even though you live in California. You'd end up eating your lunch at 9:00am instead of noon, and you'd celebrate New Year's at 9:00pm instead of midnight. It just doesn't work that way. If you live in the US and you want to wish your friend in Australia happy birthday, you'd wait until the right moment in *their* time zone, not yours. That's why it doesn't make sense for us to observe Maria's birthday on 14 June -- on Maria's calendar, that same moment would be 1 June.
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Happy birthday Grand Duchess Maria Nicholaievna Romanov
here's your birthday song
KT Tunstall-suddenly I see
weird video,but great song
http://youtube.com/watch?v=e-At6avvY_4&mode=related&search=
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happy belated birthday.
wait is her b-day on the 14 and 26?
This isn't the most accurate analogy, but it works: Think of the whole Russian/Western calendar as a really BIG time zone. When it was 14 June for Maria, it was 26 June in the west -- just like how when it's 9:47 for me in Michigan, it's 12:47 in Los Angeles. It's the same moment, but we label it differently.
Now imagine everybody but Russia switched to daylight savings time in 1900. That made Maria's birthday 27 June outside of Russia.
Celebrating Maria's birthday on 14 June in the west is like setting your clocks to New York time even though you live in California. You'd end up eating your lunch at 9:00am instead of noon, and you'd celebrate New Year's at 9:00pm instead of midnight. It just doesn't work that way. If you live in the US and you want to wish your friend in Australia happy birthday, you'd wait until the right moment in *their* time zone, not yours. That's why it doesn't make sense for us to observe Maria's birthday on 14 June -- on Maria's calendar, that same moment would be 1 June.
ohhh ok so its the 27 thanks sarushka!! ;D
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And to think if she had not died she could still be alive today. I just received a news flash a few days ago talking about how people are living longer, especially women. A good sized list of people who lived quite a bit past 108 years old, and were in their right minds to actually answer the survey questions. They said their longevity was primarily due to their spirituality. So with that, I think Maria could have easily lived this long, except for the circumstances.
Maria, you know how I feel about you. ;)
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Happy birthday, Mashka! :D
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Happy birthday my dear Mashka.
You are missed.
(http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/Romanov_Albums/mariaforherbday.jpg)
"Time flies by with a horrible quickness..." - Maria Nicholaievna. 1918.
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Happy birthday dear mashka! i hope there is an big party for you in heaven
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Happy birthday, Maria! You are still loved and remembered here on earth.
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Happy birthday Masha! 109!
Sorry but I lack the capability on this computer to make any sort of really cool-looking birthday graphic with pictures of Maria. But I'd be really happy to see what other people come up with if they have anything!
Also, depending on what part of the world you're in, it may no be the 26th yet as I post this, but it is over here in Ontario, and I just wanted to send out my personal HBD to our beloved Mashka. :D
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Happy Birthday, Maria Nikolayevna! +
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And this day come!
Happy Birthday, Maria!
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Happy Birthday Maria!!
Look how cute you were as a baby!!! lol hard to believe that was over 109 years ago!!
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Lynn
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Happy birthday sweet Maria !
You'll never be forgotten +
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Happy birthday, Maria!
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Happy Birhtday!
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Happy birthday Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna. You'll always be remembered and loved.
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Happy Birthday Grand Duchess Marie Nikolaevna
RIP
You will be missed, and forever loved
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Happy Birthday sweet girlie!
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Happy birthday dreamy Maria :)
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Happy 110th Birthday, my dearest Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna!!! I love you sorepeated infinite times much! I hope you will visit me.
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Happy birthday Maria dear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xogBdpQadKY&feature=channel_page
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Happy 110th brithday Maria Nikolaevna Romanova :)
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Happy birthday, Maria -- may you rest in please, along with your family. Video is amazing, Ally! :-D.
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Happy Birthday, dearest Maria!
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Happy birthday Grand Duchess Maria Nicolaievna!...rest in peace.
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Felicem natalem, Maria!
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Happy birthday, my dear Marial!!
You are a truly angel now!
For you:
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Good rest, darling...
Many kisses!
Denise
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Happy 110th birthday Maria. If only there was a way to go back in time...
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Happy Birthday, Imperial Angel, and Rest in Peace!
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Maria, С Днем Рождения! ;D
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Happy birthday Maria My best wishes for you sweet girl,
find eternal peace & rest, you're still alive in our minds & hearts... Happy birthday again :-)
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Happy Birthday, Maria! Now, you are really in peace.
RealAnastasia.
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A Very, Very Joyful and Unforgettable 111th Birthday to My Most Favorite Velikaya Knyazhna Maria Nikolayevna!!!
In our hearts you stay alive and will never be forgotten. I cherish you dearly and my sisterly love for you always grows : )
Greetings from Philippines; it's already June 26 here ♥♥♥♥♥
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A very happy and angelic birthday to the Imperial Angel.... forever in the hearts of many i'm sure Maria will alway be! ;)
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Happy 111th Birthday, Maria. I hope you, your family, and Ivan S. are having a great time. Maybe he brought you another cake, Mashka.
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Happy 111th Birthday anniversary of Grand Duchess Maria Nicholaevna!, rest in Peace Maria.
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Happy birthday Maria, the angel who died too soon and who we will remember forever. Rest in peace.
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Happy Birthday dearest Maria!! 111
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Happy Birthday, Maria.
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Happy 111 years old, Mashka !!!!!!! ~ From Tasia
Happy BIRTHDAY, Maria !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ~ From Beautiful_Anastasia (she asked me to write here because she's traveling)!
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Better late then never....
Dearest Mashenka, thank you for coming to this world and for at least a while bringing your light and joy to those who knew you.
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Sorry if I'm late dear Maria, but still, Happy birthday!
We are very alike, you now, and I'm happy of have so
much in common with a such beautiful and kind lady.
Rest in peace darling one.
Many kisses on your rosy cheeks.
With all my respect and affection,
Denise
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And what about me? I'm VERY later! But, happy Birthday, dearest Mashka. Hope you are now all right in Heaven along with your whole family.
RealAnastasia.
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Happy Birthday dearest Mashka. Your legacy of love thrives here and in heaven and always will.
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Lovely picture of Mashka, BlessOTMA :)
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I didn't have the opportunity of being online the exact day, but.........
My so dear Maria, I want to wish for you the happiest of the birthdays! I hope that you can enjoy it at the side of your family and also of all the ones who love and admire you, my best wishes for you lovely angel. Rest In Peace.
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Thankyou Leticia! Happy birthday Maria darling!
Emily x
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Happy belated Birthday, dear sweet Maria! You and your family are in our hearts. Rest in peace.
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Sorry for the lateness.
Happy 111th Birthday my darling,darling lovely Maria!:)
R.I.P.
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A little late but..
A blessed birthday to sweet Maria!
111 years and forever young and lovely.
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Happy birthday dearest mashka 112 this year... if only you had great-great-grandchildren to celabrate this with you :(...... but since you don't allways remember we are hear for you and we will never forget you mashka :-* remember we will be together aagian one day
~raine
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Happy 112 years, Maria Nikolaievna!
RealAnastasia.
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Happy early birthday darling Mashka! I am replying today because all your letters always read June 14th as your birthday, although I am fully aware that your real birthday is 13 days off.
Again I say, Happy 112th Birthday, Maria Nicholaievna!
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Well happy (early) birthday Mashka :) Technically, I celebrate on June 26th (my birthday too!!!) but I know I will forget to post then. Only the Lord knows what could have been, but the Lord did save you from the pains beginning to set in. <3
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Happy early birthday, Nad/Natasha! I'll forget to post on June 26th, also (I just know it, but still . . . have a happy birthday!
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Happy, happy birthday dearest Maria! You may be 112 but you're still and always will be forever young! Maria my dear this is made especially for you!
Maria
Saucers big and blue
That's right i do mean you
A smile one can always see
You're happy and that's how it's supposed to be
Caring for others is how you live
With all the warmth one can give
A very happy birthday goes out
Since that is what this day is all about
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Happy 112th birthday, Maria :) I hope you're having a nice one.
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Happy 112th birthday sweetheart Maria! We will never forget you and your sisters and brother and papa and mama. Rest in Peace our beloved angel! :-*
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Happy Birthday Dearest Marie!
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Mashka 1916 Crimea
RHB, I love your poem!
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Love you, Mashka! May you rest in peace!
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Happy birthday Maria! :)
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RHB, I love your poem!
Why thank you Annie... I wrote Tatiana's poem and then i figured i'd write the others! So all four have one on paper even Olga's poem is wriitten but she has to wait until November for hers of course! ;D By the way lovely painting! :)
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Why thank you Annie... I wrote Tatiana's poem and then i figured i'd write the others! So all four have one on paper even Olga's poem is written but she has to wait until November for hers of course!
It's good to think ahead! lol! By the way lovely painting!
Thanks! It's based on the photo of AN, Olga and Maria at the beach from 1916 =) Happy Birthday Mashka!
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Happy Birthday Dearest Marie!
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Mashka 1916 Crimea
RHB, I love your poem!
BlessOTMA I love the draw, it gives me peace =)
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Your painting is lovely, Anne.
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Thank you larri* and Tim!
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A Very, Very Happy 112th Birthday to Our Ever Most Precious Darling Grand Duchess Maria NIkolaevna!!
I’m hugging her right now, kwahaha!! Joke!
She is my most favorite and will forever be! I’m still hoping to see her in person ♥♥♥
Her memories will not just be in their pictures, in their writings, in the memoirs of the ones they met, in the books about them that we read, in the places they lived in … Those precious memories will also be in our hearts and minds — which will keep them alive and flourishing through the endless time that will come!! We love you very 1000x much, Maria!! : D
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Happy Birthday Dearest Marie!
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Mashka 1916 Crimea
RHB, I love your poem!
Great painting, Annie! OTMA loved the water, didn't they? Just one of the many things they got from Daddy!
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Thinking of Marie, " an angel and the best of them."
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Happy Birthday, dear, sweet, kind, brave Maria! May you rest in peace forever with your dear family!
Greak drawing and great poem, Anne & RHB! :)
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A week belated, but anyways... Dear Maria, beautiful and kind angel I want to wish you the happiest 112th birthday. I hope that you've finally found the eternal peace and joy. Rest In Peace with all your family and loved ones. We'll always remember and love you very much!!
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In memory of darling Marie Nikolaevna on this day, the 26th of June. The very definition of a princess! A remarkably beautiful and vibrant young lady. We cherish your memory and wish you blessings on this commemoration of your birthday. May we all play the role of Earl Louis Mountbatten for a day, at least!
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And thus we close out the Romanov Birthday Season.
Happy Birthday, Maria. 113 years old and beautiful as ever.
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Happy birthday to the Beautiful Maria! :-)
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My Marie!! My Marie darling precious Grand Duchess, A Very Blissful 113th Birthday to you!!! I always keep you in my heart despite everything which wants me to make me forget you. Oh dear, you'll never be forgotten... and for all of us, your devoted sisters, we will always think and embrace you in our thoughts and hearts. We love you ever soo much; no one can tell except God ♥♥♥
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Dearest Mashka...time has not dimmed your love and warmth...it radiates from your photographs and deeds
still and always will for those of us lucky enough to hear your song...and many do, dear Grand Duchess of the Heart
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Tender, good hearted and angelic Grand Duchess Maria I want to wish you a really happy 113th Birthday!!! You'll always remain alive in our hearts and in our thoughts!!! We love you!!! Rest In Peace!
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Dearest beautiful Maria, of all the amazing personalities I've come to know from my studies of the Romanov dynasty, you are the one I would have most like to have known. I feel a kinship with you. Someday, in heaven, I hope we become friiends. Happy Birthday Maria. Rest in peace.
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Let me just say that today is in fact Marie's birthday according to the Gregorian calendar. Marie was simply the best , a dear, precious, kind, and yes, beautiful, girl and saint. I am deeply moved simply by the thought of her and her life and will remember her always. The world was better for her brief presence in it. May she be in eternal peace.
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...I am deeply moved simply by the thought of her and her life and will remember her always. The world was better for her brief presence in it.
I couldn't agree more...I was thinking yesterday ( and this is true for them all ,) 13, 17, 19, 21, 22 years is vastly better than none...we ,the world, at least had 19 years of Marie's presence.
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Happy Birthday to the gentle, often angelic, sweet and cheerful Grand Duchess Maria Nicholaievna! It surely seems that you always wanted to do whatever you could to help others, and that is such an admirable quality. May God bless your spirit and memory, and may you be celebrating it even now with your family!
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Wishing a very happy birthday to our darling little Mashka angel,
114 years today. Sweet dreams, beautiful. <3
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Wishing a very happy birthday to our darling little Mashka angel,
114 years today. Sweet dreams, beautiful. <3
She looks pretty good for her age doesn't she? :-)
Usually I stick with the Gregorian calendar and June 26th for her birthday, but I don't see any problem in wishing the lovely Marie Nikolaevna a happy birthday twice!
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Wishing a very happy birthday to our darling little Mashka angel,
114 years today. Sweet dreams, beautiful. <3
She looks pretty good for her age doesn't she? :-)
Usually I stick with the Gregorian calendar and June 26th for her birthday, but I don't see any problem in wishing the lovely Marie Nikolaevna a happy birthday twice!
Or thrice. I guess you could go with June 26th ,Gregorian calendar, but that pretty much ceased to work at the end of the 19th century,; thus , even in the Gregorian style, her big day was the 27th in the 1900s. Alll three dates are a way of looking at it. I opt for today.
So, Happy birthday to the sweet,strong, beautiful and truly angelic, Mashka! Always, always remembered.
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Happy Birthday to you, Maria!
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I guess I can understand why you'd celebrate her birthday on both the 26th and the 27th since that's a little iffy (although the 27th is most correct), but the 14th on the NS calender is too early. That's the OS date, and it's only the 1st of June OS.
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I guess I can understand why you'd celebrate her birthday on both the 26th and the 27th since that's a little iffy (although the 27th is most correct), but the 14th on the NS calender is too early. That's the OS date, and it's only the 1st of June OS.
Well, I understand your point, but I'm simply equating the date of Marie's birth, June 14th , on the calendar prevailing when and where she was born, with our present day June 14th (understood to be yesterday, in fact). June 14th simply being taken as June 14th, though in 1899, that date was June 26th outside Russia in countries under the Gregorian system. No one in her family ,or country, for that matter, would have thought her birthday was June 26 or June 27( in the twentieth century.)
It's true that yesterday she could be thought to be 116 years minus thirteen days, past her birth, but a strong case can be made for saying her birthdate was/is June14th.
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Happy Birthday to stunning Marie Nicholaievna ...gorgeous within and without
Have a forbidden cookie for your day! Your Papa is worried you'll spout wings otherwise! lol
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Once again we close out the Romanov Birthday Season.
A very Happy Birthday to Maria Nicholaievna. 114 years young.
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A very happy birthday to Maria.
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Once again we close out the Romanov Birthday Season.
A very Happy Birthday to Maria Nicholaievna. 114 years young.
It always goes so fast! Of course we still have Alexei's in mid-August followed by Olga 2 1/2 months later...
My thoughts today with the lovely, precious and incomparable Maria Nikolaevna on this, the anniversary of her birth! One of a small handful of faces I wish see when (hopefully) arriving in the heavens someday :-)
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Happy birthday for the angelic Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna!!!
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On her birthday, best thoughts and fondest wishes to the sweet and truly angelic GD Maria Nikolaievna. Forever beautiful. Forever loved.
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Happy Birthday to one Sweet Marie! The perfect princess, daughter, sister and wife & mother (had history allowed for the latter).
May we all be so lucky to have you watching down on us from above!
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Happy Birthday, Maria!
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Happy Birthday to Maria Nicholaievna. I hope you're having a great one.
So Romanov Birthday Season 2014, comes to a close.
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Romanov Birthday Season 2015 comes to a close...
A very Happy Birthday to Maria Nicholaievna. I hope those saucer eyes are happy on your special day.
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and so on this day we remember Maria Nikolaevna. The third girl, the "disappointment". The sweet, unselfish and brave soul.
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and so on this day we remember Maria Nikolaevna. The third girl, the "disappointment". The sweet, unselfish and brave soul.
Amen. Darling Mashka! A more perfect princess there has never been.
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and so on this day we remember Maria Nikolaevna. The third girl, the "disappointment". The sweet, unselfish and brave soul.
Excellent expression, Ally Kumari.As I celebrate her as strong, cheerful, and the gold standard in feminine beauty as well.She still enchants us after 116 years
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What's a mere 117 years when the birthday girl is the dear Maria Nikolaievna?
Happiest birthday wishes and remembrances to "our" Marie, Mashka, Masha. Never really forgotten. In fact, I think of her arrival among us as on June 14th, but that's another story and another day to remember the girl whose eyes ("Marie's saucers") still beguile us from pictures and descriptions.
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What's a mere 117 years when the birthday girl is the dear Maria Nikolaievna?
Happiest birthday wishes and remembrances to "our" Marie, Mashka, Masha. Never really forgotten. In fact, I think of her arrival among us as on June 14th, but that's another story and another day to remember the girl whose eyes ("Marie's saucers") still beguile us from pictures and descriptions.
Well, color my face red , and sorry,Marie, but though the sentiments are true, my months are off. I'm confident she'd forgive me, though probably also give me a wicked , well-deserved teasing.
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Alrighty then. Today is June 14th. Marie was born on this day in 1899.That was according to the Julian calendar in effect in Russia then and for centuries.Her entire family knew it as such, as did about 130 million of her countrymen and the Church into which she was born.June 14th is also the date I correctly and first learned of her blessed arrival. So...
Happy birthday and fond remembrances to "our" Marie, Mashka, Masha. Never really far from our thoughts.Her eyes "Marie's saucers" still beguile us from pictures and descriptions.
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Alrighty then. Today is June 14th. Marie was born on this day in 1899.That was according to the Julian calendar in effect in Russia then and for centuries.Her entire family knew it as such, as did about 130 million of her countrymen and the Church into which she was born.June 14th is also the date I correctly and first learned of her blessed arrival. So...
Happy birthday and fond remembrances to "our" Marie, Mashka, Masha. Never really far from our thoughts.Her eyes "Marie's saucers" still beguile us from pictures and descriptions.
It's perfectly acceptable behavior - at least in this particular forum - for one to jump the gun (by a month or so) and bestow praise on Darling Mashka :-) Never a bad time to do so. These birthday anniversaries just give us a convenient excuse.
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We close out Romanov Birthday Season 2016 with the birthday of Maria Nicholaievna.
Happy Birthday Maria. You and your saucer eyes are still remembered.
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As always, Ally, these are lovely pictures.
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And we close out Romanov Birthday Season 2017 with a very Happy Birthday to dear Maria Nicholaievna.
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Happy Birthday Maria Nikolaevna! May your memory be Eternal!
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In life she used to be overshadowed by her elder sisters, in the years post her death it was the name of Anastasia that drew attention. Maria Nikolaevna, third daughter of the last Tsar, had a reputation of being placid and almost angelic, as well as often ending as the butt of a joke because of her clumsiness. By nature Maria was essentially a Mother. Extremely earthy and straightforward, she felt awkward during official occassions, but would lose any shyness when face to face to an ordinary person. With remarkable memory for faces, Maria never forgot anyone and felt keen interest in other people. Occassionally there would be pangs of loneliness and jealousy in her heart, owing to the fact she suffered from the middle child syndrome, but her inborn unselfishness and devotion always triumphed over them.
Maria was the only one of the four sisters whose birth disappointed the Emperor so much that he had to take a long, solitary walk in the park before he could face his wife and greet the new baby. But it was also this daughter, who stood as the greatest support and pillar of strength to her parents during the days of February revolution in 1917, and a year later during their transport to Ekaterinburg. She died a horrible death in the hail of bullets and thrusts of blunt bayonets, just one among millions of innocent victims of the Russian Civil War. Today she is considered a martyr and a saint. But all she ever wanted was to have a family of her own.
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That's lovely Ally and, of course, spot on accurate. Thanks for sharing and many blessings to sweet Marie Nikolaevna on this the anniversary of her birth!
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A very Happy Birthday to Maria Nicholaievna.
And thus we close out Romanov Birthday Season 2018.
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С днем рождения !
A very happy birthday to my favorite Grand Duchess, Her Imperial Highness Maria Nikolaevna !
Sad it's the last birthday before they were killed.
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Happy Birthday Mashka!
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Happy birthday to the Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna
It's her 120th today !
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Happy birthday Marie, you are never forgotten!!!
-Lily of the valley
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Happy Birthday, Maria.
And a belated Happy Birthday to Nicholas, Alexandra, Tatiana, and Anastasia. Sorry I forgot you all this year, but Real Life got in the way.
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Not easy with the dates of the Julian calendar, the Gregorian calendar, then before 1900 and after 1900. Sometimes I forget a date, so I think of the next one.
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Yeah, it can get confusing at times!