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Re: Tatiana resembles Alix?

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BobAtchison:
I think I have read that Tatiana was most like her mother in her movements and personality while Anastasia looked the most like her.

Lisa:
Dear Thomas,
I  agree completely with you!I think that Tatiana had the pace of her mother, its maintains and its taste of the domestic businesses. If Olga resembled more to Nicolas physically,  she was strong like her mother. Alix writes it herself in a letter (I do not know any more if it is in a letter to Anna Vyrubova or Nicholas). Tatiana was soft like her father. This is why, in my opinion, Olga and Nicholas were closer, like Tatiana and Alix.
On the photographs, I find that Alexis and Anastasia have the same eyes
as their mother. Maria resembles more to the Romanovs than to the Hesses...

but as you wrote:"But all in all I can't even see the parents in ANY of the children."

Arleen_Ristau:
I too have wondered who the children looked like and didn't think they looked like either parent.  I've tryed and tryed to vision how Alexis might look grown, especially when the claiments pictures came out....but other than Michael of Kent I haven't a clue.  Marie is by far the most beautiful to me, but no daughter comes close to Alexandra!!  As a young woman she takes your breath away, its not hard to understand Nickolas passion for her.       ..Arleen

Candice:
I think Olga out of all the children is the one that resembles her mother Alix the most :).  

Janet_W.:
Some years ago the L.A. Times Book Review published a review about a book re: Nicholas and his family.  The photo chosen to illustrate the review was one of Nicholas and Tatiana sitting together during the Tsarkoe Selo imprisonment.  Anyway, the caption for this photo read that it was Nicholas and his wife!  Needless to say, I wrote in immediately, as did a number of other people.  Some said it was one of the other daughters,  but the majority of us identified the young woman as Tatiana.

To me, the children are a physical blending of looks belonging to both maternal and paternal sides.  Olga, I think, most resembles her father's side of the family, i.e., her Aunts Xenia and Olga. Also, in profile she does resemble her father more than her mother.  Tatiana has Alexandra's height and elegance, but her facial features are a blending of both maternal and paternal sides, with her full mouth resembling the fuller lips of her father, rather than the thinner lips of her mother.  Marie has generally been mentioned as having the strength and constitution of her Russian forebearers.  She does seem to have been the most physically robust, with a very pretty face that perhaps is from her mother's side, with regular features more like those of her maternal grandfather.  Anastasia, to me, again seems to blend the features of her parents, slightly favoring her mother's side.  Alexei, however, seems most like his mother's side.  (A bit like Uncle Ernie.)

As I mentioned, Olga's profile (check out that Faberge egg with the profiles of all five children, given to their grandmama) is a Romanov profile, as is Tatiana's, with the Romanov look a bit less pronounced in the profiles of Marie, Anastasia, and Alexei.

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