Svetabel! Many, many thanks for the super photographs and painting! Having looked through the IF threads it appears that you are without question, wonderfully generous with your time, knowledge and resources. There are so many of us in your debt!
I noticed that on the Konstantinovitchi thread you mentioned that Mitia was very supportive of Tatiana K's marriage. He sounds like such a good man, like KR really.
Did Mitia have any private dealings with Nikolai Konstantinovich, after the latter was banished to Tashkent. NK sounds like such a black sheep, but like KR such a good man at heart. Both men seem to have been ruled by their hearts a great deal, was Mitia the same?
Mitia was certainly very suave. He wore clothes with such panache and natural style and the cigarette holder adds to his glamour. I was suprised to see that he shaved off his beard and moustache in later years.
So I know he lived at Strelna during and after KR's lifetime, but did he have his own palace within the grounds, like a bachelour pad, or did he have apartments within the Konstantine Palace itself during KR's lifetime? Also I note that Mitia bought a house in St Petersburg in 1915, so does that mean that Mavra, Ioann Konstantinovich and KR's other children inherited Pavlovsk and the Marble Palace in SP as their homes?
Does anyone know if Mitia ever contemplated marriage. He seems to have been very fond of KR's children. Did he have a good relationship with his parents and sisters?
I am sorry to ask so many questions, but I do find Mitia so interesting! I would like to know so much about him and his interests, but there seems so little in books or on the internet, except here!!
