With regard to BlessOTMA's reply 604 from "Rare Pictures XII", which see,the photo of OTM in mourning dresses for KR's 1915 funeral:
The best known version has Tatiana as well as Olga and Marie facing the camera with a straight sober look on her face.
But (if you can summon up that photo, in your mind ,or in fact) when I first saw that one, I literallly didn't know who was the female other than Olga and Tatiana there. They were easily recognizable, but in spite of being a Marie devotee (alright, I admit it), I just coulldn't believe that the girl on the l left was Mashka. Even in the context of a mourning photo she seemed too , what? sober? short-haired? plain different?
Anyone else have that reaction?