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Re: How important is Tatiana to you?
« Reply #75 on: July 13, 2012, 10:14:57 PM »
Meanwhile Vanya Ivanova  here is a thread for Tim's cat Tatiana , with a photo =)
http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=17059.0

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Re: How important is Tatiana to you?
« Reply #76 on: July 15, 2012, 12:11:51 PM »
My Tatiana pictures are now up, in the same thread that Anne posted above.  It's in the Having fun section.
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Re: How important is Tatiana to you?
« Reply #77 on: July 16, 2012, 05:02:00 AM »
Thanks Tim, she is beautiful! and has a suitably regal bearing also! really liked the youtube video. Anne your Tatiana cat picture looks like a page straight out of Gleb Botkin's 'Lost Tales' - wonderful.

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Re: How important is Tatiana to you?
« Reply #78 on: July 16, 2012, 09:04:32 AM »
Thank you! and I agree Tim's Tatiana has a regal bearing!

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Re: How important is Tatiana to you?
« Reply #79 on: July 16, 2012, 12:13:56 PM »
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Thanks Tim, she is beautiful! and has a suitably regal bearing also!

Thank you, Thea.  Do you have any cats?


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Anne your Tatiana cat picture looks like a page straight out of Gleb Botkin's 'Lost Tales' - wonderful

I've always liked that picture of Tatiana on the Standart.  Anne really did a great job of having my Tatiana there.
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Re: How important is Tatiana to you?
« Reply #80 on: July 17, 2012, 02:11:40 AM »
Yes Tim, I do, two infact. Like you I got them from a local humane society. They are sisters, an extremely naughty tortoiseshell named Poppy (we've had to give our next door neighbour a waterpistol to prevent her from going in to steal all their cats food) and Daisy, a black and white who is a very gentle, timid soul. Growing up I always had dogs only apart from a 'ratter' who lived in the barn most of the time called 'Mcgregor' because he was quite vicious like the Mcgregor clan ( a scots joke). Cats take longer to trust you I've found but are just as devoted in their way as dogs once they do. Your Tatiana is a real beauty though, again just like her namesake!

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Re: How important is Tatiana to you?
« Reply #81 on: July 17, 2012, 07:03:40 AM »
I've always been a cat person.  I've had one ever since I was five.

They always call dogs "man's best friend", but to me it's always been cats.
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Re: How important is Tatiana to you?
« Reply #82 on: July 17, 2012, 10:32:36 AM »
Just a reminder to stay on topic...
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Re: How important is Tatiana to you?
« Reply #83 on: July 17, 2012, 12:22:31 PM »
Just a reminder to stay on topic...

Yeah maybe we should start a thread titled "How important is Tim's cat to you?" :-)

Back on topic...the word "important" is an interesting choice as opposed to the more typical, "like", "love", "admire", "most beautiful", etc, that we normally see as associated with these types of discussions on OTMA.

I don't consider any one sister of more value to me over another, but "important" is another story. I think the most "important" for the highest percentage of us is probably Anastasia. Only because it is she, or more specifically the fanfare generated by her impostor claimants, that brought so many of us into the story. Certainly more so than OTM. Tatiana I believe, and I feel demonstrated by none other than Sarah in her terrific book, to be the most important family member during their sixteen months of captivity. Her grace and composure were unmatched. She was also the go-between for her parents and the guards. I think it was easy enough to see how capable she could have been, if given the opportunity to do so, after getting a look at her service as a nurse in the hospital.

Olga and Marie are wonderful and important in their own ways. But the Imp was my door into the rest of the family saga, and Tatiana I feel was the most important, overall, to the family in their greatest time of need.

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Re: How important is Tatiana to you?
« Reply #84 on: July 18, 2012, 10:52:37 AM »
Sorry for knocking this thread off topic.  However, I did state how Tatiana is important to me, by naming my cat after her.
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Re: How important is Tatiana to you?
« Reply #85 on: July 18, 2012, 03:44:48 PM »
It's well the topic is called " How important is Tatiana to you " Because  that's  diffrent than asking if one member of OTMA is more important than the others . To me  that's  like asking which of the four legs of a table is the more important. =)  However it appears to us, in important matters, imo the whole unit was involved and each contributing.

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Re: How important is Tatiana to you?
« Reply #86 on: July 18, 2012, 04:18:29 PM »
I agree.  I guess one could make such a thread about each GD.
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