Help with Identification, Translations, Finding a Photo

[Mandie, the Gothic Empress]

1st one, is in 1907-8, with Grand Duchess Xenia's kids, about five of them there including her daughter Irina. Xenia had seven kids, 1 girl Irina and six boys- Andrei, Fyodore, Nikita, Dmtiri, Rostislav and Vassil.

2nd one with Louis of Battenberg known to the family as "Dickie", later Lord Mountbatten, Earl of Burma. son of Alix's sister Victoria.

[cebi26]

Thank you very much!

[Duchess Hydrangea]

Uploaded with ImageShack.us in the very back, is that Gavril Konstantinovich?

[mishaxenia]

Hi, help me with the correct translation of those words? are written on an icon painted by prince Putiatin.
If I'm not mistaken means blagoslovenje   blessing
http://inlinethumb24.webshots.com/50263/2667416740105221653S600x600Q85.jpg
I do not understand the second part
http://inlinethumb34.webshots.com/50081/2011700600105221653S600x600Q85.jpg
written at the bottom of icon
http://inlinethumb37.webshots.com/50020/2651844700105221653S600x600Q85.jpg
Thanks !!!!

[Antonina]

 Hi mishaxenia,
Yes, благословение родителей (blessing from parents). 19(?)8.
At the bottom (the Church Slavonic language): "Святая Икона сия письма Князя Михаила '' - "This Holy Icon is painted by Prince Michail (patronymic)". I hope I will read the last word if you will make a bigger foto))

[mishaxenia]

Hi mishaxenia,
Yes, благословение родителей (blessing from parents). 19(?)8.
At the bottom (the Church Slavonic language): "Святая Икона сия письма Князя Михаила '' - "This Holy Icon is painted by Prince Michail (patronymic)". I hope I will read the last word if you will make a bigger foto))

Hi ,Antonina  thank you very much, now it is possible "to complete" the history of the icon. Bye Misha

[Dru]

Can anyone help me translate this correctly?  It's a stanza from a poem by Zhukovsky, and I'm having a little trouble with the syntax...

"Увидел я царевну молодую,

Невесту севера; и на меня

Она глаза склонила мимоходом:

И скрылось все..."

[Mandie, the Gothic Empress]

"I saw a young princess,

Bride of the North, and for me

She lowered her eyes in passing:

And all disappeared ... "

[blessOTMA]

Wonderful poem!

does someone have a nice file of the OTMA  mushroom picking photo , where Olga is leanding on a birch  tree with arms crossed and  smiling? A  friend needs it for a project. Thanks!

[Ortipo]

тяв!

1024 X 1007 here ---> http://oi47.tinypic.com/s6u9hx.jpg

[Dru]

Thanks for your help with the poem, Mandie!

[Mandie, the Gothic Empress]

no prob

[blessOTMA]

тяв!

1024 X 1007 here ---> http://oi47.tinypic.com/s6u9hx.jpg

Gasp  !Thank you!

[Antonina]

Does anybody know who is this woman with Alexei?

[blessOTMA]

I wonder if it's a lady in waiting I've seen with the big pair at the hospital...



which still doesn't answer who it is sadly