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Re: Olga's Letters
« Reply #120 on: December 07, 2009, 05:21:55 AM »
I understand there is a letter by Olga in Eugenie de Greece's book about Aleksei, Le Tsarevitch, Enfant Martyr,
Who has that book here? If you don’t mind may you post the whole letter so that blessOTMA’s sister can translate it? Thank you very much in advance! It will be nice to read a very long letter from Olga!

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Re: Olga's Letters
« Reply #121 on: December 07, 2009, 05:23:08 AM »
Sarushka and Marie_Catherine have. I have heard that book is fabulous. You may ask them for help.
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Re: Olga's Letters
« Reply #122 on: December 22, 2009, 03:11:52 AM »
Sorry for this translation.

Tobolsk 19 December 1917 to Pyotr Vasilyevich Petrov (their teacher)

Thank you for your warm greetings, dear Pyotr Vasilyevich! We all congratulate you on this holiday and in the new year of 1918. We wish you all the best. We’re very glad to know you are healthy. We go for a walk twice a day in the part of the street enclosed by the fence. Sometimes we play on a small snow mountain, which we just began to make and then quickly abandoned because there is too little snow and frost… Almost everyday, the sun shines and it is very nice. All our dogs are healthy and they bow to you. It’s very nice of them, right?
Thank you for your long letter which made us happy. I wish you all good for the holidays. Give my greetings to everyone.
Your Pupil No. 1, Olga


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Re: Olga's Letters
« Reply #123 on: December 22, 2009, 02:27:15 PM »
Princess Shandroise! Thank you for these posts!
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All our dogs are healthy and they bow to you. It’s very nice of them, right?
lol! Very funny! I bet they gave him headaches!! I can't resist doing a cartoon of the imperial puppies giving Pyotr Vasilyevich a bow

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« Reply #124 on: December 22, 2009, 05:12:51 PM »
blessOTMA - now that is just too cute! Made me laugh!

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« Reply #125 on: December 22, 2009, 08:08:36 PM »
I second what Ally said.  :D Cute idea and so funny! Good cartoon too!!

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Re: Olga's Letters
« Reply #126 on: December 25, 2009, 03:35:01 AM »
Oh, you’re very welcome, Annie! I really like your drawing, too, and you made me laugh about it! Olga would like to have it so much that she might snatch it from you ;-)

Olga Nikolaevna to Pyotr Petrov

29 January 1918 - Tobolsk

Good morning dear old Peter V. !
I’m very grateful for your very long letter. Of course, I remember our first lesson, but not the sixth. All of us are healthy. We walk much and go for a slide on the ice mountains, etc. We still live together but are not allowed to go to church anymore. At Obednitsa, we must be at home. I don’t read anything special these days. I love Chekhov very much that I learned wholeheartedly the play “Bear”. I will talk about that book with Trina. Perhaps…I will learn something more from her. I apologise for my handwriting and the disgusting paper. Greetings to all and to you even more. Keep safe.
Your old pupil,
Olga






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Re: Olga's Letters
« Reply #127 on: December 25, 2009, 09:06:21 PM »
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Oh, you’re very welcome, Annie! I really like your drawing, too, and you made me laugh about it! Olga would like to have it so much that she might snatch it from you ;-)
lol! and now you made me smile. Another fine translation Grand Princess Shandroise!
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.....I love Chekhov very much that I learned wholeheartedly the play “Bear”. I will talk about that book with Trina. Perhaps…I will learn something more from her.... 
Well Trina would be the one to ask. It's funny to read Olga's comment about " The Bear " here  because I just finished a drawing of Olga and Nicholas in The Bear. I recently read about thier theatricals in  the Final Chapter form. It's a great play.The drawing is when the widow , played by Olga shouts at the other character( Nicholas) "Bear!" three times! Fun!

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Re: Olga's Letters
« Reply #128 on: December 25, 2009, 11:47:33 PM »
what a wonderful drawing!

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Re: Olga's Letters
« Reply #129 on: December 26, 2009, 12:49:43 PM »
Thank you. It's amazing to read this play and think of them playing these parts... and thanks to Alexi's diary, we can.
From her letter, we know Olga loved the play. What a fine place to put one's temper! lol!

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Re: Olga's Letters
« Reply #130 on: December 28, 2009, 03:54:33 AM »
I found some letter excerpts from “The Russian Girl” biography of Olga Nikolaevna by P. Savchenko. I’m very sorry for these rough translations.

June 6, 1917
…We began cutting the trees in the garden. We saw it for firewood, etc. The kitchen garden prospers. Yesterday, we ate the first radish we’ve grown in the garden. It is bright red and tasty.

June 29, 1917
…We still work in our garden. We have cut down more than seventy trees already.

July 10, 1917
…I hear the bells ringing in the Catherine Palace’s Cathedral so I go to Znamenie. I am writing to you while lying on the grass by the lake. The weather is wonderful so it’s good to be outside. Alexei is nearby and marches along a path. The others cut dead trees for firewood. We planted some cucumbers in the kitchen garden, and there are some other vegetables planted there, too.

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Re: Olga's Letters
« Reply #131 on: December 28, 2009, 06:37:23 AM »
For anyone who would like to know, since I noticed that online translators translate word 'Znameine' as a 'Sign'. That is because of the root of the word, what means indeed 'sign'. But it was name of Church, 'Znamensky Church of Lord's mother'.

Thank you a lot for those letters, I know the book, there is thread about it in 'Books' section.
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Re: Olga's Letters
« Reply #132 on: December 28, 2009, 07:47:37 AM »
I found some letter excerpts from “The Russian Girl” biography of Olga Nikolaevna by P. Savchenko. I’m very sorry for these rough translations.

June 6, 1917
…We began cutting the trees in the garden. We saw it for firewood, etc. The kitchen garden prospers. Yesterday, we ate the first radish we’ve grown in the garden. It is bright red and tasty.

June 29, 1917
…We still work in our garden. We have cut down more than seventy trees already.

Are these to Zinadia Tolstaya?

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July 10, 1917
…I hear the bells ringing in the Catherine Palace’s Cathedral so I go to Znamenie. I am writing to you while lying on the grass by the lake. The weather is wonderful so it’s good to be outside. Alexei is nearby and marches along a path. The others cut dead trees for firewood. We planted some cucumbers in the kitchen garden, and there are some other vegetables planted there, too.

Who was this one written to? It's new to me -- I'd like to add it to my database.

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Re: Olga's Letters
« Reply #133 on: December 28, 2009, 11:05:28 AM »
I found some letter excerpts from “The Russian Girl” biography of Olga Nikolaevna by P. Savchenko. I’m very sorry for these rough translations.
GP Shandroise, you are amazing! Thank you for these letters!!... and thank you nena for that clarification.

 

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Re: Olga's Letters
« Reply #134 on: December 29, 2009, 03:51:02 AM »
Are these to Zinadia Tolstaya?
Who was this one written to? It's new to me -- I'd like to add it to my database.
Sadly, P. Savchenko didn't put to whom Olga sent those letters. I'm hoping to find those letters in full someday, though.
You are all welcome! I am very glad to share :-])
Annie, your drawing is very good. I love it much!
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