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Elena

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« Reply #390 on: April 04, 2008, 03:22:41 PM »
An article about her later years. In Russian.  With pictures.

http://www.terijoki.spb.ru/trk_terra.php?item=58

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« Reply #391 on: April 04, 2008, 11:28:56 PM »
That's very interesting, thanks! Many pics I hadn't seen before!  I tried to translate some of it on babelfish, got a weak understanding of it. Maybe if one of our Russian speakers here has time they can translate part of it, or at least the picture captions for the rest of us.

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« Reply #392 on: April 05, 2008, 12:41:12 AM »
Thank you for sharing, Elena. A very interesting article and quite a few rare photos. I think that first photo, the one of her taken in 1920, is probably the most flattering photo of Anna I have ever seen. I have always felt so sorry for Anna. She was blamed for so much that was in no way her doing. :(

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« Reply #393 on: April 05, 2008, 01:59:03 PM »
I was recently able to get a copy of Memories Of The Russian Court from Ebay for under $5. The one picture of Anna is shortly after her release from The Fortress of Peter and Paul.  Very similar to the first photo in the article above. She is still somewhat plump, but her eyes are very beautiful. 
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« Reply #394 on: April 05, 2008, 03:26:24 PM »
I was recently able to get a copy of Memories Of The Russian Court from Ebay for under $5. The one picture of Anna is shortly after her release from The Fortress of Peter and Paul.  Very similar to the first photo in the article above. She is still somewhat plump, but her eyes are very beautiful. 

This one?




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« Reply #395 on: April 05, 2008, 03:33:11 PM »
Yes, That is the one.

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« Reply #396 on: April 05, 2008, 07:55:33 PM »
I would love to read her last book, which she published in Finish. I hope one day it is translated into English.

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« Reply #397 on: April 06, 2008, 05:46:12 AM »
Actually,  an unpublished English translation exists.  In her foreword to the Finnish book the editor, Ms Viherjuuri tells that her father, who obtained the publishing rights in 1939, originally planned to publish the book in Finnish, Swedish and English.  The project  was put on hold because of the advent of WWII.  But apparently the translations were there.  The Viherjuuri  family remained in contact with Virubova for the rest of her life but no book came out during that time.   

In 1984 Ms. Viherjuuri recieved a copy of the Virubova manuscript in English from a family friend from Germany.  During the war her father had given the copy to this friend for safekeeping outside Finland (presumably for fear of a Soviet occupation or other hazards of the time).  The friend had kept the papers for more than 40 years.  Now this event inspired Ms Viherjuuri to finally publish the book in 1987 in Finnish and Swedish.

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« Reply #398 on: April 06, 2008, 08:12:43 AM »
Isn't one of her later books alleged to be a forgery?

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« Reply #399 on: April 06, 2008, 11:26:18 AM »
I understand the "Journal Secret" of 1928 is a falsification.

Quote: "The 'secret diary' later published by the Soviets under Vyrubova's name was denounced by her as a forgery" ("The Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921" by Jon Smele)

The Finnish Viherjuuri 1987 book I was referring to, is more or less a longer version of "Memories of the Russian Court".  Parts of this more recent book are translated on the APTM website in "Later Memoirs of Anna Vyrubova"

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« Reply #400 on: April 06, 2008, 03:48:00 PM »
The falsification is called A.A.Vyrubova's Diary (Dnevnik A.A. Vyrubovoj), published in magazine "The Days passed" (Minuvshie Dni) in the numbers  1, 2, 3 of 1927, and number 4, 1928. The text was written by P.E. Shchegolev and A.N. Tolstoy.

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« Reply #401 on: June 09, 2008, 09:06:32 AM »
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v695/clairecher/?action=view&current=StandartONTNMNAAV.jpg

Was this one already posted? I don't remember. What do you think, 1910, 1911?

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« Reply #402 on: June 09, 2008, 09:21:26 AM »
I would guess 1910 or maybe even 1909. It seems to me that the Big Pair began tying their hair back into ponytails at age 15 (in preparation for putting it up at age 16) which is why I wonder if this photo could be earlier than 1910.

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« Reply #403 on: June 09, 2008, 10:23:27 AM »
So I think 1910: see pictures of Germany, formal pictures for 1910, Olga has the same hair style.
Sorry, I am such a "maniac" of right datation:)

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« Reply #404 on: June 12, 2008, 03:00:40 PM »
It says 1907 on the picture, doesn't it? That does seem a bit too early though.