delicate-flowers-of-the-past:Happy 119th Birthday Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia! Born
delicate-flowers-of-the-past: Happy 119th Birthday Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia! Born 119 years ago today, June 10th 1897 / June 10th 2016 ‘‘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 not feel nervously exhausted. Towards one o’clock the little one was bathed and Yanyshev read some prayers. Mama arrived with Xenia; we lunched together. At 4 o’clock there was a Te Deum. Tatiana weighs 8 ¾ pounds and is 54 centimeters long. Our eldest is very funny with her.“ - Nicholas II, June 10th 1897. ‘’She was a picture-book beauty … Taller even than her mother, willowy and with a tiny waist, she was the most elegant and ’aristocratic’ looking of the four sisters and exuded a sense of her status from head to toe. People often remarked that she behaved ’like the daughter of an emperor’. Confident with her beauty, with a fixed, almost challenging expression in her eyes, Tatiana could look effortlessly imperious. Her profile was exquisite; with her pale, almost marble skin, lovely dark chestnut hair and a slightly mystical Asiatic look about her wide, tipped-up dark grey eyes, she was naturally photogenic. She loved clothes and carried them with grace and elegance, as well as a slightly coquettish air. But she was very much her mother’s daughter: reserved, inscrutable, less open and spontaneous than her sisters and less inclined to smile…’’ - Helen Rappaport : Ekaterinburg - The Last Days of the Romanovs. -- source link
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