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« Reply #30 on: August 10, 2005, 05:58:54 PM »
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Quite possible, but remember, the "Royal Diary" book series are not fact!


true. but they are based on little true events on them.

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Re: Tatiana's Necklace
« Reply #31 on: August 11, 2005, 08:54:49 AM »
Here's the girls wearing their in-process pearl neckalces.


Olga's is nearly half a string & appears nearly complete because of the way her hair has fallen over her shoulders, while Anastasia's looks like only a couple inches -- just enough to skim the collar of her dress.
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« Reply #32 on: August 11, 2005, 06:22:14 PM »
aww look at nastya's she has like 4 of them on her necklas.

does alexei have anything like that. but like somthing else?

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« Reply #33 on: August 11, 2005, 06:51:57 PM »
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true. but they are based on little true events on them.


Much of what "true events"are in there are distorted or have fictional elements incorporated intp them. I wouldn't believe anything that comes from that book.

I doubt Alexei had anything like that. It would hardly be masculine.
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« Reply #34 on: August 11, 2005, 07:29:08 PM »
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Much of what "true events"are in there are distorted or have fictional elements incorporated intp them. I wouldn't believe anything that comes from that book.

I doubt Alexei had anything like that. It would hardly be masculine.


but it was right about the necklas thing.

i was wondering did alexei have like a pocket watch?

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Re: Tatiana's Necklace
« Reply #35 on: September 27, 2005, 11:29:14 AM »
It would be nice if someone could sort this topic out. I would love to know if the necklace Tatiana wears in the photo is her own or merely a family necklace she put on for the formal photos. Tatiana would turned 16 by 1913, this could have been her necklace.  But it looks to be only diamonds, not pearls .Wherever it was from it was beautiful!

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Re: Tatiana's Necklace
« Reply #36 on: September 27, 2005, 07:29:57 PM »
There's another photo from the 1913 sitting that might show a clearer view of these necklaces, but I don't think I have a copy. (I saw it on A&E's Nicholas and Alexandra)

In this photo, Tatiana is shown in profile on the right, and Olga is facing the camera straight-on, with her necklace prominently displayed. Anybody got it?
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Re: Tatiana's Necklace
« Reply #37 on: November 20, 2005, 04:45:50 AM »
Don't forget there were many other occasions on which the girls may have received jewels as gifts. Not only their birthdays but also Christmas and possibly Easter. And don't forget, as devout members of the Russian Orthodox Church, each member of the Royal Family would also celebrate, once every year, his or her appropriate "name day"--the feast day of the saint after which each was named. In fact I have heard that in religions which recognize "name days", the name day at least in a religious sense is regarded as more significant than even the person's birthday. For sure each girl would have had a party and received beautiful gifts on her name day. Actually one of the last jewelry-gifts from Alexandra to any of the girls was a gold charm bracelet she gave to Marie in, I think it was 1917. It was a bracelet that had belonged to Alexandra herself and in her "jewelry book" she wrote that she had given this bracelet as a gift to Marie. I checked the date of the gift and the date of Marie's name day (she was named after Saint Mary Magdalene). I was not surprised to realize that Alexandra had given the bracelet to Marie on the feast day of St. Mary Magdalene, i.e. Grand Duchess Marie's name day! So clearly the girls were known to receive gifts of jewelry on their name days too.
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« Reply #38 on: January 24, 2006, 06:21:12 PM »
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Is that the necklace Olga got for her 16th birthday?

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« Reply #39 on: January 29, 2006, 04:57:31 PM »
thats a pretty wonderful necklace.

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Re: Tatiana's Necklace
« Reply #40 on: March 09, 2006, 08:31:50 PM »


You can clearly see Tatiana's in progress necklace here.

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« Reply #41 on: March 10, 2006, 07:33:05 AM »
must have been heavy.

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Re: Tatiana's Necklace
« Reply #42 on: March 10, 2006, 08:30:10 AM »
They're pearls. Unless they're huge they're relatively light, mostly.

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« Reply #43 on: March 10, 2006, 11:04:32 AM »
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They're pearls. Unless they're huge they're relatively light, mostly.


pearls!!! i thought they were diamonds.

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Re: Tatiana's Necklace
« Reply #44 on: March 10, 2006, 12:17:48 PM »
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pearls!!! i thought they were diamonds.


I thought that too, they really do look like diamonds.
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