When was the snowball incident?

[amartin71718]

This is kind of a random question, but what year was the snowball incident?

[ImperialxTwilight]

I could be wrong, but I think it was 1912.
On a site of Anna Vyrubova's memoirs, the chapter it
Is mentioned in deals with a lot from 1912:

http://www.alexanderpalace.org/russiancourt2006/vi.html

[nena]

Maybe that winter 1912/3.?

[amartin71718]

Oh, Ok. Thanks.

[Aliss_Kande]

Snowball incident?  Please explain, I've never heard of it.

[nena]

Anastasia threw snowball to Tatiana, and she felt.....Snowball was very heavy.......I think Marty_1994 maent that event.

[amartin71718]

I wonder, if the snowball hit her hard enough to knock her out, how long was she out? It was long enough for Anastasia to think she was dead.

[ImperialxTwilight]

She possibly may not have been out long.
Just the shock of seeing someone suddenly on the ground,
Not moving can frighten someone...as well, some injuries to
The head can kill instantly if in the right place...

[Aliss_Kande]

Wait...so Anastasia threw a snowball at Tatiana that knocked her out?  How have I never heard of this?  Did she have a concusion?  Was she okay?  More details PLEASE!!!!

[Lalee]

I think the children were outside the palace playing in the snow. I do not know if Anastasia was annoyed with Tatiana or if it was a harsh prank she played, but she rolled a rock inside the snowball and it hit Tatiana directly in the face. I don't know if Tatiana went unconscious, but it was definitely a big shock and she fell on the floor stunned. Anastasia hardly ever cried but, realising that she had possibly come very close to harming her sister, she completely burst out into tears. I don't know if any adults were with them or what happened after that.

Perhaps Holly could help!

[amartin71718]

I did read somewhere that it knocked her senseless to the ground. But, I don't know if that means she was unconscious or stunned.

[clockworkgirl21]

Tatiana seemed to have bad luck in that area! In Tobolsk, she slid headfirst down a little snow mountain they built and nearly knocked herself out.

I remember reading that Nicholas scolded Anastasia for it.

EDIT: Nicholas scolded Aleksey for throwing a snowball at Anastasia when her back was turned in 1915 or so. In Tatiana's case, I don't know who else was around, or how much trouble Anastasia got into.   

[Lalee]

Tatiana seemed to have bad luck in that area! In Tobolsk, she slid headfirst down a little snow mountain they built and nearly knocked herself out.

Tatiana wrote about that in a letter to her Russian tutor. She certainly had a good, sweet sense of humour, though: "Another time I was going down the hill backwards and banged the back of my head really hard against the ice. I thought nothing would be left of the hill, but it turned out that neither I nor my head burst, and my head didn't even hurt. I've got a hard head, don't I? Eh?"

[nena]

Thank you, Ferah.
NII told to Aleksei: Be shame, Aleksei, you attack from back, as German! ---when he threw snowball to Anastasia. It really suprised me!
Sorry for topic off.

[Holly]

I think the children were outside the palace playing in the snow. I do not know if Anastasia was annoyed with Tatiana or if it was a harsh prank she played, but she rolled a rock inside the snowball and it hit Tatiana directly in the face. I don't know if Tatiana went unconscious, but it was definitely a big shock and she fell on the floor stunned. Anastasia hardly ever cried but, realising that she had possibly come very close to harming her sister, she completely burst out into tears. I don't know if any adults were with them or what happened after that.

Perhaps Holly could help!

Yes, it was in Poland and everyone was outside and the children were playing in the snow and Anastasia got the idea to get a rock and put some snow around it and she then threw it at Tatiana which hit her in the face very hard, knocking her to the ground. Realizing exactly what she had done, it scared her and she cried. I don't think she really understood how much that would hurt her sister before she did it and thought it would be a clever thing to do.