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Ortino

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clockworkgirl21:

Does this happen to be Tatiana's dog, Ortino? Or did Aleksey have a french bull dog, too?

Also, is he naked here? People who've seen the pic before are probably the only ones who can answer it, because I had to black it out a but so I wouldn't get yelled at in case he is naked.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b74/clockworkgirl21/aleksey1916.bmp

Laura Mabee:
Yes, Alexei is naked... no big deal.. Everyone is born naked, it really shouldnt be as taboo as it is. ..just my two cents

etonexile:
At first...I thought you were asking if the dog was naked....Alexei seemed to be wearing a sailor suit....I thought Teddy was posting....after his "medicine"... ???

DanielB:
It seems the photo of Alexis with the dog was taken in Germany when the IF went to Friedberg (in 1910). The dog looks too big to be Ortino. Probably a German dog: maybe it belonged to the Hessian cousins.

As for Alexis being naked, there is another photo of Alexis standing naked on a beach being rinsed off by Derevenko. I wont post it not to offend anyone as it’s more revealing than the other one :o  but… it’s in “Royal Russia; The private albums of the Russian Imperial Family” ;) . Russians often bathed in the nude, as Grand-Duchess Olga recalled in her memoirs: on their way to their summer palace, the IF would often pass groups of fat women with their chidren, all of them naked, wading in the shallow streams around Peterhof, adding :” Our arrival would not upset them in the least. The screaming and laughing children would be silent only momentarily; their mothers would bow slightly and smile in acknowledgment to their Tsar and then they would continue enjoying their bath..” :D . She also recalled that when they rode through the park they often would see nude soldiers washing in the rivers and how, at the sudden approach of the imperial carriages, pandemonium would reign: caught by surprise, the men would scramble out of the water, not to get their clothes, but to grab their caps which they would jam on their wet heads, then, smartly standing at attention, they would salute and shout ;D . She added no one except her British nanny seemed the least offended by this sight! Even Nicholas II swam in the nude with the male members of his entourage, as photos and movies show. He certainly only did it only when no ladies were around, but the fact that the Emperior didn’t object to having his photo taken proves that Victorian puritanism hadn’t really reached Russia.

Lizameridox:
I am somehow persuaded that the Tsesarevich, also, only skinny dipped when no ladies were around, but it was a very Cossack thing to do.  There was also a film of some youngsters without bathing suits on jumping off a pier into a pond while Alexei Nikolaevich, standing by Derevenko, could only watch.  (Probably because the bottom of the pond was unknown territory and the Heir's feet could have gotten hurt against something down there.)

When little Alexei swam with his sisters, and played on the beach, he wore a proper striped bathing costume.

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