Exhibition in the children's rooms!

[blessOTMA]

Thank you Laura ! I'm swooning here! lol!

[EmmyLee]

Great! I wish I could go. Does anyone have this watercolor or picture of Alexei and Anastasia?

[Sanochka]

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Here is a picture of an array of toys, apparently taken in the Semi-circular Hall.  Especially poignant is the box camera.  I wonder whose it was.  Could it be one being held by OTMA in numerous period photographs?  They must have owned several cameras since photography was a passion of all of them.  Could this one have belonged to a specific Grand Duchess, or did they all share?  Anyway, I could not determine whether these toys will be part of the upcoming Exhibition, but I would suspect that they are.

[blessOTMA]

A:  I can't see the image. =( ..and B:  it's my understanding each of their cameras had a name plate...makes sense when one things of it!!
I have wondered if  some of those Anastasia funny faces were  planted in a sister's camera when they weren't looking ...it would be a pretty  funny surprise when the prints came back! lol! Just speculation on my part of course

[Romanov_History_Buff]

Does anyone know the year that silly photo was taken by any chance?

[Sarushka]

Does anyone know the year that silly photo was taken by any chance?

Summer of 1915, according to page 200 of Nicholas & Alexandra: The Family Albums.

[Romanov_History_Buff]

Thank you Sarushka for your own answer!

[pastpalacelife]

Did you notice Maria on the bed behind Anastasia? Is that pic from their room?

[Sarushka]

Did you notice Maria on the bed behind Anastasia? Is that pic from their room?

There's also a glass of milk on the nightstand.

I believe it is their bedroom.

[blessOTMA]

Yes indeed

 

[blessOTMA]

the camp bed headboard speaks to that as well  . In the movies Alexis camp bed is shown as red and white ....do we know what the girls camp bed colours were? ...I'm thinking blue and white, but don't know

[Sarushka]

It seems like I've read that they were all covered in blue and white ticking, but it'll take me some digging to verify that.


Edited to add:
The search was easier than I thought! Here's a post in which Bob's describing this photo from memory:

There is a glass of milk by the bed - this glass of milk was by all the children and their parents at night.  Nicholas was a big milk drinker.  The milk came from the Imperial dairies at the Imperial farm in the park.

If I remember right there's an ikon pinned to the blue-ticking cover of the headboard of the camp bed...

(I don't know if Bob had a print source for the color of the cover or whether it's firsthand knowledge.)

[pastpalacelife]

So, I guess the second floor of the childrens wing is indeed open!  That's exciting.  I can't wait to hear from someone about what that experience is like and how far down the corridor of the wing is accessible. I wish we could see the right wing after being vacated by the navy but before renovations begin. 

[GrandDuchessAndrea]

I had a dream about being at this exibition. I wish I could really go! 

[blessOTMA]

The toy guard house... seems to be part of a set ( including the poles) from the Russian State archives