Author Topic: Photos and showing teeth (Read 66266 times)

IrinaAlexandrovna · « **Reply #180 on:** January 13, 2009, 10:38:20 PM »

Well yes but the other way is to see the year and place of the picture and you will know

Olga Maria · « **Reply #181 on:** January 14, 2009, 05:43:42 AM »

Quote from: tom_romanov on January 12, 2009, 12:23:55 PM

Quote from: Olga Maria on January 12, 2009, 04:39:25 AM
Indeed, they sometimes look older or younger than their real age on some photos.
........But they still look so pretty...........

I agree and thanks to these photos their beauty will be immortalised

Aah those pictures...You're welcome.

Grand Duchess Jennifer · « **Reply #182 on:** January 14, 2009, 08:40:14 PM »

Quote from: IrinaAlexandrovna on January 13, 2009, 10:38:20 PM

Well yes but the other way is to see the year and place of the picture and you will know

I ment that I use that trick if it has no date on it.

IrinaAlexandrovna · « **Reply #183 on:** January 15, 2009, 05:35:08 AM »

Well or just look at the background... You could just recognize something...

Nobility · « **Reply #184 on:** January 17, 2009, 06:56:21 AM »

Reading the extract from Spiridovitch's book where he mentions his little girl Xenia at the flower festival. This saddened me as I know Xenia ended up taking her own life by drowning.

Olga Maria · « **Reply #185 on:** March 26, 2009, 03:37:36 AM »

IS that Maria at the back?She looks thin.

IrinaAlexandrovna · « **Reply #186 on:** March 26, 2009, 06:11:21 AM »

Yes this is Maria.She looks normal.

Tina · « **Reply #187 on:** March 26, 2009, 08:31:47 AM »

Quote from: Irina Alexandrovna on March 26, 2009, 06:11:21 AM

Yes this is Maria.She looks normal.

I'd guess it's Maria too. Although she looked like Anastasia to me when I first saw the picture, I think it looks more like Maria. $:-\$

Ally Kumari · « **Reply #188 on:** March 26, 2009, 08:58:04 AM »

It is Maria. I´ve seen a video footage from that day....

IrinaAlexandrovna · « **Reply #189 on:** March 26, 2009, 11:21:34 AM »

Quote from: Grand Duchess Ally on March 26, 2009, 08:58:04 AM

It is Maria. I´ve seen a video footage from that day....

Yes me too.....Didn't know it's same day...Thanks

nena · « **Reply #190 on:** March 26, 2009, 11:32:15 AM »

Then, it must be taken in Finland then, ca 1912.

Olga Maria · « **Reply #191 on:** March 27, 2009, 01:08:18 AM »

Thanks for clearing it out. I always thought it's Maria. We can see she's showing a bit of her teeth there!

susana · « **Reply #192 on:** July 01, 2010, 12:24:48 AM »

I can't leave this topic without wrapping up a couple of things: one has to do with teeth and the identification of Maria. In the Ekaterinburg morgue the guide told me that Maria's body was missing based on the fact that Maria DID NOT have a space between her front teeth; a skull was in the morgue with a space between its teeth which they wrongfully attributed to Anastasia--see the three girls in striped shirts playing on a swing. Also please remember each child had to go through the snaggle toothed period--which thank goodness is temporary.

The Tsar didn't take care of his teeth or gums as demonstrated by his skull.

Smoking and tanning were in style early in the century--Alexandra didn't understand why the girls would want to tan but didn't oppose it. Surprisingly, the girls would cadge cigarettes off of their father--he was a chain smoker. There are photos of the girls resting in a haystack and smoking.

AnastasiaNikolaevna · « **Reply #193 on:** July 04, 2010, 03:51:46 PM »

I haven't read the other posts so sorry if I'm copying someone, but I have seen 1 photo of Maria playing tennis showing her teeth. All of the Grand Duchesses, except for Tatiana, I think, had rather large gaps between their 2 front teeth, but I don't think that's why.

It WAS considered improper to smile with your teeth showing back then, or, at least for royalty. I'd read once that Alexandra never smiled at all in public. I honestly don't know why this is, but I think for OTMA the Monalisa smile looks very elegant on them in formal shots.

This is the picture I meant:

https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=b25b5905ed&view=att&th=1299ada874933f52&attid=0.3&disp=inline&realattid=f_gb755egz2&zw

Hope this helps!

amartin71718 · « **Reply #194 on:** July 04, 2010, 05:09:57 PM »

Being a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Alix was taught from a young age to look somber in photographs. However, if you look around the the Alexandra Picture threads, you will find pictures of her smiling and occasionally showing her teeth. Also, she rarely smiled in public because she was very shy and probably suffered from some sort of social anxiety disorder and therefore felt uneasy when around people who were not her family or friends. This situation mainly applies to court functions, as Alexandra seemed to have had no problem running her charity bazaars or nursing the wounded soldiers in the hospitals. Oh, and she was also in near constant pain due to her sciatica, which doesn't really make a person feel cheerful when it feels like your back is broken and the skin has been ripped off the backs of your legs.

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