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Nicholas II / Re: Re: Photos of Nicholas II #5

« on: September 03, 2011, 11:27:06 PM »

I know this pic must not be new, but the fact is that it IS new for me. He looks so handsome there!!!!

RealAnastasia.

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Marie Feodorovna / Re: Empress Marie Feodorovna - discussion and pictures, Part III

« on: August 30, 2011, 10:48:00 PM »

Of course! The "older Minnie" was one of the more elegant women of Europe...

RealAnastasia.

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Having Fun! / Re: Rare Pictures XI

« on: August 20, 2011, 11:17:03 PM »

Yes. Olga's smile is unmistakeable. She IS Olga Nicholaievna.

Vanesa.

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Their World and Culture / Re: 1914 Russian Women's magazine

« on: August 19, 2011, 11:44:10 PM »

Yes. In Argentina we also had these kind of magazines. The most famous one was named "El Hoga-Revista para la mujer y la família " ("Home- a magazine for the woman and the family"). It had very similar setions that the Russion magazine that was posted here. It had fashion articles, but also history, politics, music and pics of Argentine more traditional families. I've purchased a lot of these in fly markets and they are great to read.

RealAnastasia.

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Tatiana Nicholaievna / Re: Tatiana Photographs III

« on: August 13, 2011, 11:04:54 PM »

I think that it was Anastaisa the only one who didn't have a naturally curly hair...Her hair was quite straight.

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Nicholas II / Re: Nicholas II & Matilda Kschessinska - her love affairs with his cousins

« on: August 13, 2011, 11:00:38 PM »

I didn't remember where I read it, but it's quite certain that Olga Nicholaievna loved Anna Akhmatova 's (or Ajmatova?) poetry...What a coincidence...Isn't it?

RealAnastasia.

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Olga Nicholaievna / Re: Photos of "The Big Pair"

« on: August 06, 2011, 11:21:13 PM »

I've seen a similar one of Maria, but never this one, with the big pair in it!

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Tsarevich Alexei Nicholaievich / Re: Why was Alexei dressed like a girl as an infant and toddler, and his hair color?

« on: July 30, 2011, 11:31:46 PM »

Quote from: Gorseheart on July 27, 2011, 04:07:02 AM

I read a long ago (from somewhere that escapes me) that they were superstitious, and they dressed them like girls to prevent evil spirits from taking them, because males were valuable in old societies. I don't know, just putting my two cents in.

Someone else thought so too I guess, I could be wrong....
Quote from: Douglas on June 06, 2009, 09:38:25 AM

I have read that there was some superstitious reason for keeping little boys in long girl like curls and dresses. It may have been Biblical and related to when all of the baby boys were ordered killed in Jesus' day.

His hair was Auburn.
And From Massie's Nicholas and Alexandra:

"a long, finely chiseled face, delicate features, auburn hair with a coppery glint, and large grey-blue eyes like his mother"

And as for the Sailor suit thing, here's a thread already on it:
http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=3622.0
And a quote!
Quote from: imperial angel on May 18, 2006, 02:56:42 PM
As far as I know, this is what he largely wore. I think he no doubt did like to dress as part of the army and navy. He was handsome as a little boy, and as a baby, wearing dresses and frilly things.Sailor suits were first introduced to Russian royalty with the children of GD Marie Pavlovna the elder, and Empress Marie Feodorovna, Nicholas II's mother. It certainly became prevalent among young males in the Romanov family, and among European royalty to wear them. The native Russian like costumes seen in mid 19th century photos of boys of the more junior branches of the Imperial Family, were never worn by Alexei as far as I know.

May God keep you!

The supersticious thought about evil spirits taking away boys and not girls is Chinese. They uses to dress boys as girls until they were five years old or so for evil spirits wouldn't kidnap them. As far as I know , Europeans wouldn't follow this tradition, not even Easterns European families.

I have a lot of family pics in which boys from this period were dressed like girls. And we are no Royalty. I also have some advertising articles n 1900 magazines in which they calls from "boys dresses". Yes; boys were dressed up with dresses but even if they were similar they were NOT the same than girls ones and if you watches their clothes closely boys and girls were dressed in similar ways, but not exactly equal.

RealAnastasia.

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Olga Nicholaievna / Re: Olga Photographs IV

« on: July 25, 2011, 10:53:16 PM »

Hey, that's right! I can't see her legs either...

RealAnastasia

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Olga Nicholaievna / Re: Photos of "The Big Pair"

« on: July 22, 2011, 10:44:29 PM »

Really? In fact Tatiana also shows a rather sad face at this pic. I think it's just a casual photo and it caught them with a neutral facial expression that could be judged as disgraceful .

RealAnastasia

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Alexandra Feodorovna / Re: Her Accent

« on: July 22, 2011, 10:41:29 PM »

German is not a harsh language. It's very sweet and it prnunciation could change froma region to another. Bavarian and Tyrolean-Austrian German sounds not harsh at all and its "r" are very similar to French.

RealAnastasia.

P.S: We have some Germans at the Forums,and I think they wouldn't be pleased if they reads they speaks a "harsh language".

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