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The Tsarevich's necklace
« on: October 06, 2006, 09:46:19 PM »
It would seem that all members of the Russian Orthodox faith receive a cross upon being baptized which they they wear almost constantly.  I have also noticed from this picture:
that Alyosha is wearing more then just a Baptismal cross around his neck.  Can anyone tell me the signifigance of the jewelry?  Also, is there any engraving on the Cross to signify the child's name, birth date or baptism date?

I would truly appreciate any feedback on this.  It's for a story I'm writing.  So I would be very gratefuly/

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Ender/

Katherine_The_O.K.

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Re: The Tsarevich's necklace
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2006, 10:48:12 PM »
It might be a miniature of his patron/name saint or something... I have an orthodox friend who wears one. But from the picture it looks round. Huh. Maybe some type of relic, like Nicholas's beeswax cross piece? 

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« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2006, 05:16:51 AM »
beeswax, yum.  ::)

ender, when your story's ready, I would really like to read it.
What is is about?

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« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2006, 10:01:53 AM »
There's a topic which is tangent to this subject: http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php/topic,5865.30.html

I think that the medaljong is the one where is a photo about Rasputin and the cross is the cross which every Grand duke and duchess have when they  born. It is a cross which included wax (beewax actually) and it is a granule of The Cross. There's a story that when Nicky was a child he was so hungry that he ate the beewax which was in the cross.

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« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2006, 10:40:18 PM »
beeswax, yum.  ::)

ender, when your story's ready, I would really like to read it.
What is is about?

It most likely will be a fanfiction related to a television programme I like very much.  However, the main character (the character I'm creating) will have a lot of strange things about her including an obsession with Russian history and an unusual talentfor understanding foreign languages.
The people for whom she works tracks a series of murders to Russia.  There's a connection to the deaths of the Royal Family and my character, through a strange chain of events, finds Alexei's necklace...then must figure out what to do with it.  Of course she'd like to keep it for herself, but knows she can't.  Yet, she doesn't want the government to have it, so she searches out a Romanov family member (not an easy task!) to talk to about the finding.

There's a lot more to the story then that, but that's the part that would be the part that would involve the Romanovs.

Mie

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« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2006, 02:06:34 AM »
You'r story ender made me wonder what happened to these necklaces! I know that the soldiers took them off in the night they were murdered and like the other objects they took those *a good keeping*... If I have red what happened those I have forgot it...  ::) Anyone can tell?

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« Reply #6 on: October 08, 2006, 01:45:12 PM »
Didn't Yurovsky make them put them back, but then Nikulin(his assistant) or someone take them by train back to Moscow?

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« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2009, 03:02:37 PM »
In 1909, Aleksei got crest/necklace from Jerusalem. It is said, he wore it on his last day, July 17th 1918.  :(. It is quite possible necklace matches from 1917 photo at Tsarskoe Selo.  ;-).
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Re: The Tsarevich's necklace
« Reply #8 on: July 06, 2009, 07:53:32 PM »
Don't you have a bigger or closer one? (photo)