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The Imperial Family / Re: OTMA - smoking and make up ?

« on: August 26, 2006, 10:40:42 PM »

I don't think I've seen this pic before...just ran across it on Ebay. It almost looks to me like Anastasia is raising a cigarette to her mouth.

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Books about the Romanovs and Imperial Russia / Re: LIFE magazine June 9, 1972

« on: August 23, 2006, 11:27:16 PM »

you are all very welcome! my pleasure.

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Books about the Romanovs and Imperial Russia / Re: LIFE magazine June 9, 1972

« on: August 19, 2006, 10:09:05 PM »

i bought it on Ebay. it was pretty cheap, too!

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Books about the Romanovs and Imperial Russia / LIFE magazine June 9, 1972

« on: August 19, 2006, 08:01:15 PM »

Hey everybody, I don't know if this has been posted already. If so, I apologize. I just bought this magazine and scanned the pictures from it. They were too big for my scanner so some of it might have gotten chopped off, but I think you can read all the words and see most of the photos.

Click on thumbnail to see full size.

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Books about the Romanovs and Imperial Russia / Re: Eyewitness in Tobolsk by Olga Belisle

« on: August 19, 2006, 06:52:51 PM »

Hi Alixz, there is a previous thread about this with lots of opinions:

http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php/topic,933.0.html

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Books about the Romanovs and Imperial Russia / Re: "Killing the Tsar's family" book written in Russian

« on: August 17, 2006, 08:06:37 AM »

Hey Belochka, thanks for the response. That makes sense. I knew the name Dietrich sounded familiar from somewhere, lol. I wasn't going to buy the book. I just saw it and was curious.

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Books about the Romanovs and Imperial Russia / "Killing the Tsar's family" book written in Russian

« on: August 16, 2006, 09:58:22 PM »

http://cgi.ebay.com/KILLING-RUSSIA-TSAR-II-ROMANOV-AND-HIS-FAMILY-BOOK_W0QQitemZ120019317463QQihZ002QQcategoryZ378QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Has anyone ever heard of this book? ^^ I found it while browsing Ebay. I don't recognize the author, and since I can't read Russian, I am unable to pick up any clues from the photos...sounds interesting!

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Tsarevich Alexei Nicholaievich / Re: Question about and/or Help with Picture(s)

« on: August 10, 2006, 07:48:33 PM »

aw i always liked that picture. I don't know the story behind it, though . It is kind of sad because it looks like he is surrenduring.

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Books about the Romanovs and Imperial Russia / Re: The Last Tsar and Tsarina by Virginia Cowles

« on: August 06, 2006, 04:11:39 PM »

This is a really good book, I thought. Immediatley upon opening my copy (old dusty hardcover without a jacket) there is a cute picture I haven't seen before on the inner lining, of OTMA with a pony...and one of the Grand Duchesses is *actually* smiling!

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Books about the Romanovs and Imperial Russia / Re: The Romanovs and Mr. Gibbes, by Frances Welch

« on: August 06, 2006, 04:09:04 PM »

can anyone tell me, what is the difference between this book and 'Englishman at the Court of the Tsar'? ANOTHER book about Sydney Gibbes!

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Books about the Romanovs and Imperial Russia / Re: Six Years At the Russian Court

« on: June 20, 2006, 01:14:37 PM »

i am so happy this book is online now!!

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Books about the Romanovs and Imperial Russia / Re: The Rescue of the Romanovs

« on: June 19, 2006, 09:48:19 PM »

I read this a while back. It is a little far-fetched but is really interesting...suggests ways in which the Imperial family could've made a break from the Ipatiev house. I really wish it happened the way the book describes, but it is just wishful thinking, I believe. Take it with a grain of salt, but enjoy it! I couldn't put it down.

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The Imperial Family / Re: OTMAA's Formal Photos

« on: May 31, 2006, 10:18:36 AM »

http://img99.imageshack.us/my.php?image=otma191680percent2ac.jpg
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a262/margaritamarkovna/Romanov%20Photos/otmawhiteflowercrossbodice.jpg

Hey guys thanks for these pictures! I have never seen them before in any of the books. Do you know where they are from?  

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Books about the Romanovs and Imperial Russia / Re: James Blair Lovell books

« on: May 18, 2006, 08:03:37 AM »

It has been a while since I've read it, but I think I remember. According to Lovell, he and Anna Anderson were watching a screening of "King Kong" in the theater, and the movie upset her; the recurring themes of a 'king' being taken down by the 'people' and everything sort of reminded her of the Czar, I guess. And then she supposedly poured her heart out to Lovell and told him things that happened to the family while they were imprisoned in Ekaterinburg...without going into too much disturbing detail she hinted that the entire family was raped, and they were verbally abusive. But then I heard afterward that Lovell fabricated this part of the book and she never said those things at all. So I don't know!

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Books about the Romanovs and Imperial Russia / Re: The 'Romanov bones' article in VANITY FAIR

« on: May 16, 2006, 09:49:09 AM »

Will do! Thanks for the advice