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Re: More Pics of Aleksey
« Reply #195 on: April 08, 2007, 10:58:10 AM »
This photo was taken at Friedberg, Grand Duke Ernst of Hesse-Darmstadt's summer residence, in late summer-early autumn 1910. See more photos in James Blair Lovell's "Royal Russia" album.
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« Reply #196 on: April 08, 2007, 10:20:52 PM »
Nena, where do you find all your pictures? Most of the ones you posted I've never seen before.

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« Reply #197 on: April 10, 2007, 05:49:06 AM »
Nena, where do you find all your pictures? Most of the ones you posted I've never seen before.
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Re: More Pics of Aleksey
« Reply #198 on: April 11, 2007, 09:17:48 PM »
For nena, who loves photos of Aleksei  in 1915/16 and at Stavka.   :-*


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« Reply #199 on: April 11, 2007, 09:20:07 PM »
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« Reply #200 on: April 11, 2007, 09:22:21 PM »
This one may have been taken in 1917:
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« Reply #201 on: April 13, 2007, 08:16:14 AM »
And another of her finds:


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« Reply #202 on: April 13, 2007, 09:32:22 AM »
Thank, you very much, Sarushka, for Stavks's pictures..... :D But I don't understand, What is Stavka(Palace?)in Mogilev, and when Nicholas and Alexis were there? ???

Nena : In Russian « stavka » means military headquarters and isn’t a actual geographical place. It is located wherever headquarters are established. At the beginning of the War the Headquarters for the Supreme Commander of the Russsian armies (Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich) were at Baranovichi, a railway hub in the Province of Minsk.

As Major-General Handbury-Williams recalls in his memoirs  ( http://www.alexanderpalace.org/hanbury/ )
« The headquarters were located in various trains drawn up on the sandy soil of some pine forests amid scenery not unlike that of Aldershot.

A few adjacent huts served as workshops for the staff, but we of the Allied military missions were located in the same train as the Commander-in-Chief the Grand Duke Nicholas. We 'messed' in his dining-car. When the Emperor came down his train was drawn up on a special siding a little farther from ours, and in the pine forest, but near enough to be reached in two minutes' walk.

We remained at this place (going off individually at times to see the armies) till the late summer of 1915, when the retreat before the advancing enemy made us shift our quarters to Mohileff. »
 
In September 1915, Nicholas II assumed supreme command himself. At Moghilev he took residence at the Governor’s Mansion while the General Staff was located in the adjacent building, the former Tribunal.

So : from August 1914 to August 1915 : Stavka was at Baranovichi. After August 1915: Moghilev (in today's Belarus, on the bank of the Dnieper river).

The Tsar made frequent trips to Stavka. After he became Supreme Commander he went there more often and stayed longer. Beginning mid-October 1915, when Alexis was well enough he went along, accompanied by his teachers. The rest of the I.F. occasionnaly made some brief visits.

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« Reply #203 on: April 16, 2007, 11:32:37 PM »

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« Reply #204 on: April 16, 2007, 11:39:37 PM »
WOW! New to me. Do you know where it was taken?
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« Reply #205 on: April 16, 2007, 11:41:36 PM »
I assume you ment the first one, since I think we both posted at the same time. I have no idea where it was taken, but I was thinking Germany.  ???
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« Reply #206 on: April 16, 2007, 11:53:40 PM »
I assume you ment the first one, since I think we both posted at the same time. I have no idea where it was taken, but I was thinking Germany.  ???

Heh. I was so geeked up about the first one, I didn't even notice the second photo!  :D

I would also guess they were taken abroad. Germany, or possibly England. I've seen photos of Derevenko with Aleksei and the Mountbatten cousins -- I wonder if that was the same trip?
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« Reply #207 on: April 17, 2007, 04:06:14 AM »
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Heh. I was so geeked up about the first one, I didn't even notice the second photo! 

No, I added the second photo while you were replying.  ;D


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« Reply #208 on: April 18, 2007, 08:47:39 AM »
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I have no idea where it was taken, but I was thinking Germany.
Yes,Germany, around 1910....Thanks for pictures,clockworkgirl21? Have you comments on my Pic.what I posted several days ago? ;)
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Re: More Pics of Aleksey
« Reply #209 on: May 08, 2007, 08:20:58 PM »
I don't recall seeing this one around here before...


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