Close-ups of Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, from a group p
Close-ups of Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, from a group portrait taken in 1916.“On 11 August 1916, Alexandra informed Nicholas that their daughters had spent all day posing for a new set of official photographs ‘for giving away to their committees.’ As it turned out these would be the last official pictures ever taken of the four sisters, by photographer Alexander Funk. Released from their usual all-purpose plain skirts and blouses the girls dressed in their best satin tea dresses with embroidered panels of roses, wearing their pearl necklaces and gold bracelets. Anastasia not having passed the socially liberating age of sixteen still had her long hair loose, but her three older sisters all had theirs specially marcel-waved and dressed in chignons, most probably by Alexandra’s hairdresser Delacroix.” -- source link
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