Tatiana a greenthumb?

[Sarushka]

Tatiana's participation in a great many activities is well documented: swimming, kayaking, bicycling, correspondence, photography, sewing & embroidery, charity work, nursing....

In the captivity?

No. Prior to the revolution. As Ally said, all the children enjoyed working in the garden during captivity, so that hardly singles Tatiana out as an especially talented or devoted horticulturist.

Sorry, but you cannot compare clarinet and garden.

In the absence of any traceable source to confirm, deny, or corroborate either activity, what makes gardening more probable than playing clarinet?

(I'll concede that gardening is possible -- lots of things we've never heard about the imperial family are possible -- but I won't go so far as to say it's probable.)

[abbigail]

Seeing as we don't have a definite source yet, perhaps this was referring to before the war, when Tatiana was very young? Some kids just love puttering around in gardens...maybe this was unique to her when she was a child (as opposed to in captivity, when all the girls worked..though maybe she enjoyed it immensely then too). Some kids are fascinated by this stuff.

[Holly]

Wox24, it appears you are grasping at straws here.

I am extremely hesitant to believe a Romanov fan site (which are horribly misinformed as previously mentioned) when it comes to any new and different information, especially when Sarah (Sarushka) has never heard of it. If you consider how no one else can verify the information, which sounds sketchy in the first place, and remember that Sarah owns just about all English-speaking and Russian-speaking Romanov book titles to date, I would heed her word.

[wox24]

Holly I don`t know whether it is true or not. I only think, in regard of her character, whether it could be true or not. And it is difference, or not? 

And, in regard of her character, it COULD be true.

[Sarushka]

wox24, is English your native language? I'm suddenly wondering if this tussle has really been about the difference between 'probable' and 'possible'...

[Ally Kumari]

wox24, is English your native language? I'm suddenly wondering if this tussle has really been about the difference between 'probable' and 'possible'...

I hope she won´t be mad at me for saying this - wox24 is not native English speaker, she is Slovak.

[LondonGirl]

Somehow I doubt it held much pleasure for her lol, beyond maybe the novelty value of something new. Plus it was done under the regime of captivity to a large extent and in the context of family loyalty and so on, so I wouldn't read a lot into it.

[Olga Bernice]

I think that they were all probably very good gardeners and probably loved it for the fresh air it gave them out of captivity (among other reasons, of course).

IMHO the version about that was an exceptionally good gardener is very probable.

I don't mean to be snarky, but in the absence of a source, this is as probable as saying Tatiana was an exceptionally good cook, or a remarkable clarinetist. With a few exceptions, Romanov fan- and websites are notoriously inaccurate -- and we don't even know the name of the site this supposed information came from. Until we do, Ally is right to treat this anecdote cautiously.

That's me! I play clarinet. Funny you should mention that one paricular instrument, Sarushka!