Captivity photo's

[Sarushka]

It's cropped from this photo with Gilliard:

[nena]

There is even larger version of that photo, it should have been posted on this thread already. :-)

[KarinK]

Thanks for the bigger version! It shows how much wood there was in the yard for them to chop.

[blessOTMA]

Indeed, I posted these awhile ago . Someone is on the balcony




 

[chriscos]

I recently came across this pic I had never seen before.
It shows "Otma" in their last year's clothes.
Maria looks very tired and emaciated.
The picture looks like to those taken in TS in 1917 summer.
On the other hand, GD Maria did not seem so skinny then.
She suffered from measles in march 1917. Was it then?
Or could it possibly a picture shot in 1918 at Ekaterinburg by some guards? It appears very damaged, somewhat burnt...
thanks for your opinion

http://romanovs.tumblr.com/post/772413027/one-of-the-last-pictures-of-otma

[Sarushka]

This was taken in Tsarskoe Selo, while the girls were recovering from measles. That's the reason for the scarves.

Maria is not quite as emaciated as she appears — the glare from the sun is obscuring part of her neck and face, similarly to what's happening with Olga's and Anastasia's heads.

[chriscos]

Thank you !

[Rodney_G.]

This photo is from early to mid-June, 1917, Tsarkoe Selo. Shortly after the girls had their hair shorn. It shows them as you might expect them to be: not at their best, but putting up a good front as best they could. Marie still smiling,but obviously not carefree. And yes, she shows that she's  not fully recovered from her serious illness of the past March , in other words, not her typical  glowing full-bodied norm.

[KarinK]

Hendrikova and Schneider in Tobolsk.

[edubs31]

Wow, great finds Karin. Thanks for posting!

Is that a snow shovel Mademoiselle Schneider is holding? It looks enormous!

[nena]

Is that a snow shovel Mademoiselle Schneider is holding? It looks enormous!

Yes, great find, I have never seen those bigger. Yes, it is a snow shovel. It seems to be so, at least for me.

[Rodney_G.]

Definitely a shovel. Snowfalls in the Russian north were deep and one needed a wide, easily-wielded shovel. There are also of course those many photos of Nicholas  in captivity shoveling snow with a shovel like the one Trina Schneider is holding.

[edubs31]

Definitely a shovel. Snowfalls in the Russian north were deep and one needed a wide, easily-wielded shovel. There are also of course those many photos of Nicholas  in captivity shoveling snow with a shovel like the one Trina Schneider is holding.

I never really understood what they had against snow blowers :-)

[Rodney_G.]

Definitely a shovel. Snowfalls in the Russian north were deep and one needed a wide, easily-wielded shovel. There are also of course those many photos of Nicholas  in captivity shoveling snow with a shovel like the one Trina Schneider is holding.

I never really understood what they had against snow blowers :-)

In Nicholas' case, a snowblower wouldn't have allowed him the physical exertion of manual snow shoveling, which was his sole reason for doing it. Otherwise I think the then one if the richest men in the world could afford to hire a few kids to clear the AP  driveways. Alexei might have been a choice. He was into getting a little responsibility and duty.

[Превед]

Тишина - silence.... Imagine how quiet that world was, without noisy snowblowers, leafblowers, lawn mowers, air condition, TV, radio, any significant motor traffic etc.
As some memoirs describe it: In the summer evenings on the country estate, all you would hear was some melancholic peasant singing from the village.