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« Reply #750 on: June 02, 2015, 05:13:07 PM »
I agree.  Some of those hats looked like UFO's that had landed on their heads!
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« Reply #751 on: June 03, 2015, 03:30:44 AM »
Tatiana always seems so unearthly, elfine in all her photographs, no matter if they are from early 1900s or the war. Her sisters were all very much real-looking, but she looks strangely fairy-like all the time.

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« Reply #752 on: June 04, 2015, 11:09:45 AM »
I think it's great. You just know one or more of the sisters was behind this. Getting the normally serious "Governess" to be the focus of such a silly photo, while reading no less, is quite an accomplishment! Playful and endearing.

It really is great; the quiet unassuming look on Tatiana's face as she's reading. She knows perfectly well the silliness of the shot yet she holds her normal look and body language and that makes it even better.
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« Reply #753 on: June 04, 2015, 11:11:15 AM »
Tatiana always seems so unearthly, elfine in all her photographs, no matter if they are from early 1900s or the war. Her sisters were all very much real-looking, but she looks strangely fairy-like all the time.

Truly a "fairy queen"! :) Haven't some people photoshopped her face onto the bodies of fairies in the past?
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Re: Tatiana Photographs III
« Reply #754 on: June 04, 2015, 05:24:01 PM »
Tatiana always seems so unearthly, elfine in all her photographs, no matter if they are from early 1900s or the war. Her sisters were all very much real-looking, but she looks strangely fairy-like all the time.

Truly and well said. Well done, Ally for your analysis. What would you tell about OMA's expressions and impressions in the photos, from your point of a view?
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« Reply #755 on: June 12, 2015, 07:54:54 AM »
Tatiana always seems so unearthly, elfine in all her photographs, no matter if they are from early 1900s or the war. Her sisters were all very much real-looking, but she looks strangely fairy-like all the time.

Truly and well said. Well done, Ally for your analysis. What would you tell about OMA's expressions and impressions in the photos, from your point of a view?

Whenever I see a picture of Olga the word that strucks me is "melancholy". There is something proud about her face too, but it is not the disdainful pride, more of the inborn intimacy with Imperial splendour. In many pictures taken after 1914 she looks trapped somehow.

Maria is, to me, the most perfect representation of "traditional" Russian beauty. I seem to recall a quote by certain madame Ofrosima, which described Maria as an image of ancient boyarinas with kokoshnik on her head and draped in sarafan. Her face is always non-pretentious and so easy to read. Maria was as honest as you could imagine, not able (or not willing) to put on the regal, distant expression. There is sweetness, genuine interest. Or utter boredom. Depends on the occassion really.

Anastasia, so often squinting her eyes in pictures, has always come off as a tomboy. My impressions, which really are just personal view on what the girls could have been like, do not differ from the general view that she was very energetic and rarely could stand still. There was always something on her mind - something mischievous I am sure.

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Re: Tatiana Photographs III
« Reply #756 on: June 13, 2015, 11:22:48 AM »
"Последний день на яхте в Севастополе", 1914 г.
ГА РФ, ф. 651 оп. 1 д. 262 л. 23 об. фото 411


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« Reply #757 on: June 23, 2015, 10:02:10 AM »
Татьяна Николаевна в Царском Селе, 1915 год
ГА РФ, ф. 640 оп. 3 д. 25 л. 66 об. фото 976


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Re: Tatiana Photographs III
« Reply #758 on: June 23, 2015, 10:35:47 PM »
How chilling.  Where had the regalia been until 1933?  And who found them?  And where have they been kept since 1933?  And finally, will they be returned to the Alexander Palace?

Please forgive all these questions; but you have me brimming with curiosity. 

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« Reply #759 on: July 01, 2015, 01:02:30 PM »
Татьяна Николаевна на Штандарте. Севастополь, 1914 год
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« Reply #760 on: July 04, 2015, 07:27:31 AM »
Татьяна Николаевна в Царском Селе, 1915 год
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Re: Tatiana Photographs III
« Reply #761 on: July 04, 2015, 10:28:51 AM »
Lovely! The embroidery looks beautiful.

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« Reply #762 on: July 04, 2015, 01:46:41 PM »
Such a contrast in the last picture:  Tatiana at the beginning of her life, looking young and fresh, and Princess Sonia looking weak and wistful as she approaches the end of hers.  Sad picture...

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Re: Tatiana Photographs III
« Reply #763 on: July 05, 2015, 05:21:44 AM »
Nice new pictures of Tatiana.
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Re: Tatiana Photographs III
« Reply #764 on: July 09, 2015, 02:03:13 PM »
Lovely photo!