Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia was born on 13 June [O.S. 1 June] 1882 as the daughter of Tsar Alexander III of Russia and Dagmar of Denmark, now known as Maria Feodorovna. She was thus one of the two sisters of the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II. Olga was a somewhat frail and sickly baby, and this was [read more]
The second bright happy day in our family: at 10.40 in the morning, the Lord blessed us with a daughter – Tatiana. Poor Alix suffered all night without shutting her eyes for a moment, and at 8 o’clock went downstairs to Amama’s bedroom. Thank God this time it all went quickly and safely, and I did [read more]
An American-Russian team is digging at in the Perm region and are hoping to find the remains of Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, the younger brother of Tsar Nicholas II and his secretary Nicholas Johnson, who were killed by the Bolsheviks on 13 June 1918. It was in Michael’s favour that Nicholas abdicated that fateful March [read more]
In 1979, the bodies of nine people were discovered near Sverdlovsk by Alexander Avdonin, an amateur archaeologist. It wasn’t until 1998 that these remains were identified as those of Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, four servants and three of their daughters, Olga, Tatiana and most likely Anastasia. Embed from Getty Images Embed from [read more]
This article was written by Carol. Alexandra, also known as Alix, was born in 1872, the daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and Princess Alice, a daughter of Queen Victoria. When she was six years old, tragedy struck the family in the form of diphtheria. One of her sisters died [read more]
Tsar Nicholas was crowned and formally bestowed with his title of Tsar Nicolas II on 26 May 1896. He had become Tsar almost eighteen months earlier, but the coronation did not occur at the same time as the vast celebrations and ceremonies had to be carefully planned. Tsar Nicholas was not universally liked at the [read more]
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