I really don't know why the pictures turned out to be so big. I will try to make them smaller and modify my post. The next style I will try to docuement is the early 1890's. I just saw the pictures of Anna Vyruvoba's albums on the Yale site and I was up all night thinking. There are three pictures of her sometime around 1916 that are hardly recognizable and are so tragically haunting. I think that Anna caught the stunned grief and bewildered terror that Alix must have felt after Rasputin was assassinated. Her face looks like the face of Russia went it was torn and tortured by Stalin. The pictures are different from the ones taken in Spala in 1912 where she looks spiritually and physically drained and defeated. In these pictures in 1916 she looks lost and alone. Oddly enough I still find great beauty in them. The thing about Alix is that she is totally exposed, her most intimate thoughts, her weaknesses, her strengths, her most private affairs as a woman, her greatest moments of beauty, her most tragic moments of dissolutionment and defeat and still she stands as a woman of heroic proportions in spite of her mistakes and this is perhaps because of the fact that she was never acting a part but was genuinely being herself and striving to live up to her highest concept of what was right.