The Romanov Sisters
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mental state
nausea
neuralgia
physical wreck
poor circulation
pregnancies
rest cure at Bad Nauheim
sciatica
self-medication
unable to stand
well and happy
hopes for future
hospital visiting
hospitals
house arrest at Tsarskoe Selo
isolation
jewellery
journey to Tobolsk
knitting
letters to Nicky
life at Ipatiev House
life at Tobolsk
lilac boudoir
love for Nicky
marriage prospects
motherhood
name day
news of husband’s abdication
Novgorod visit
nursing
nursing training
philanthropic work
pregnancies
press treatment of
prophecy by staritsa
relationship with Anna Vyrubova
relationship with daughters
relationship with husband
relationship with Maître Philippe
relationship with Rasputin
belief and trust in him
calls him to help Alexey
concern about gossip
dependence on him
emotional enslavement to him
first meeting
letters
Rasputin’s boasting
response to his death
rumours and gossip about them
relationship with son
religion
removal of friends from Tsarskoe Selo
response to First World War outbreak
response to Rasputin’s death
response to Russo-Japanese War
response to Stolypin’s death
Revolution (February 1917)
Romanov Tercentenary
Sarov ceremony
security
separated from Nicholas
sewing
Shtandart accident
son’s crisis at Spala
son’s crisis at Tobolsk
son’s haemophilia
Supreme Council meetings
Tobolsk household
travel from Tobolsk
troops at Tsarskoe Selo
visit to England
unpopularity
‘victim of political repression’
wedding
ALEXEY, Tsarevich
accidents
appearance
childhood
illness
infancy
vitality
arrival at Ekaterinburg
arrival at Tobolsk
Bad Nauheim visit
behaviour
birth
carried
character
childhood life
christening
cinematographs
clothes
Crimean visits
crisis at Spala
crisis at Tobolsk
death
departure from Tobolsk
departure from Tsarskoe Selo
dogs
education
German measles
governor
haemophilia
head shaved
hospital visiting
isolation
journey to Ekaterinburg
journey to Tobolsk
Kiev visit
lameness
languages
leg caliper
Lent fast
life at Ipatiev House
life at Tobolsk
measles
medal from Serbs
military role
mud-bath treatments
news of father’s abdication
nosebleed
pain in arms
pocket money
portrait
protected life
public rumours of illness
reading
recovery from crisis at Spala
recovery from crisis at Tobolsk
recovery from injuries
relationship with Rasputin
relationship with sister Olga
relationship with sisters
review of troops
Romanov Tercentenary
St Petersburg concert
Shtandart accident
shyness
sister Olga’s first ball
suite on yacht
thirteenth birthday
‘victim of political repression’
visit to England
walks with father
wet-nurse
Alexey Mikhailovich, Grand Duke
Alexey I, Tsar
Alfred, Prince, Duke of Saxe-Coburg
Alice, Princess, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine
Alice of Battenberg, Princess
Allen, Mrs (in Harrogate)
Almedingen, Edith
ANASTASIA NIKOLAEVNA, Grand Duchess
appearance
at balalaika concert
colouring and features
fat
head shaved
hospital visiting
last sight of
official photographs
watchful
arrival at Ekaterinburg
arrival at Tobolsk
bedroom
behaviour
attention-seeking
clownish
demanding
difficult to control
hospital visiting
impertinent
inattentive in lessons
madcap
mischievous
rough with other children
social development
birth
brother’s illness
chaperone
character
adventurous
charm
courage
disobedient
egocentric
humour
intelligence
irrepressible personality
liveliness
strength of personality
childhood
clothes
court dress
matching with sister Maria
outfits
satin tea dress
under-linen in rags
white ensemble
Crimean visits
death
departure from Alexander Palace
departure from Tobolsk
departure from Tsarskoe Selo
destruction of diary
dog
education
friendship with Zborovsky
health
bronchitis
earache
German measles
hair loss
measles
pleurisy
recovery
hospital visiting
journey to Tobolsk
Kiev visit
knitting
letter to sister Maria
letters to father
letters to Katya
life aboard Shtandart
life at Ipatiev House
life at Livadia
life at Tobolsk
love life
marriage prospects
military role
Mogilev visit
Moscow visit
news of father’s abdication
Novgorod visit
reading
relationship with father
relationship with mother
relationship with Rasputin
relationship with sister Maria
relationship with Tyutcheva
response to First World War outbreak
response to Rasputin’s disappearance
response to Revolution
response to Russo-Japanese War
riding
Romanov Tercentenary
St Petersburg entertainments
seventeenth birthday
sixteenth birthday
social life
theatricals at Tobolsk
thirteenth birthday
‘victim of political repression’
visit to England
Anastasia of Montenegro, Princess see Stana
Anderson, Assistant Commissioner Robert
Andrew of Greece, Prince
Anglo-Russian Hospital
Arthur of Connaught, Prince
Avdeev, Alexander (deputy to Yakovlev)
Babushkin (sailor)
Bagration-Mukhransky, Prince Konstantin
Balfour, Arthur
Balmoral
Baryatinskaya, Princess Mariya
Beatrice, Princess
Beatty, Sir David
Bechhofer, Carl Eric
Bekhteev, Sergey
Belyaev, Father
Belyaev, Ivan
Benkendorf, Count Pavel
Benkendorf, Countess
Bertie, see Edward VII, George VI
Best, Frank
Białowieża Forest
Bibesco, Marthe
Bigge, Sir Arthur
Bitner, Klavdiya
arrival in Tobolsk
background
death
life after 1918
relationship with Kobylinsky
view of Alexey
view of Anastasia
view of Maria
view of Olga
view of Tatiana
Blagoveshchensky Church
Blessing of the Waters
Blomkvist (Finnish pilot)
Bloody Sunday (1905)
Bogdanov, General
Bogdanova, Alexandra
Bogrov, Dmitri
Boissonnas & Eggler
Boris of Bulgaria, Prince
Boris Vladimirovich, Grand Duke
Borodino celebrations
Bosanquet, Dorothy
Botkin, Dr Evgeny
advice on evacuation
calming family
death
departure from Tobolsk
health
imperial physician
journey to Tobolsk
lessons for Alexey
life at Ipatiev House
life at Tobolsk
remaining with Romanov family
Stolypin’s assassination
treatment of Alexandra
treatment of Alexey
treatment of Olga
treatment of wounded troops
view of Anastasia
view of Rasputin
Botkin, Gleb
journey to Tobolsk
last sight of Romanov family
life at Tobolsk
playing with Alexey
view of Anastasia
view of Grand Duchesses
view of imperial entourage
view of Red Guards
view of Trina Schneider
Botkina, Tatiana
Boyd Carpenter, William, Bishop of Ripon.
Brest-Litovsk Treaty (1918)
Buchanan, Sir George
Buchanan, Georgina, Lady
Buchanan, Meriel
nursing
on Alexandra
on Anastasia
on British failure to evacuate Romanovs
on British naval visit
on eve of revolution
on imperial succession
on isolation of four sisters
on Olga and Tatiana
on Olga’s marriage prospects
on outbreak of war
on public response to Romanovs
Buimirov, Vasily (deacon)
Buxhoeveden, Baroness Sophia (Iza)
abdication of tsar
account of folk healers
Alexey’s christening
Alexey’s illness at Tobolsk
arrival at Tobolsk
behaviour of Romanov sisters
celebrations for birth of Alexey
Christmas at Tobolsk
Easter celebrations
fears for future
health
journey to Ekaterinburg
life after 1918
life at Ekaterinburg
life at Tsarskoe Selo
memories of Maria’s presentation
memories of sisters’ courage
memories of Romanov family’s sewing
memories of staritsa’s prophecy
news of tsar’s abdication
piano lessons
preparations for departure
response to Revolution
role
separated from Romanov family
Tyutcheva’s departure
view of gossip about Alexandra and Rasputin
view of ‘hush-hush’ policy
view of Tatiana
Carol I, King of Romania
Carol of Romania, Prince (from 1914 Crown Prince)
Carrington, Lord
Casper, Rebecca Insley
Cassini, Margaret
Catherine the Great
Chaliapin, Feodor
Charles of Denmark, Prince
Chebotarev (Tschebotarioff), Gregory
Chebotareva, Valentina
background
death
diary
friendship with Tatiana
letters from Olga and Tatiana
memories of abdication
memories of Nicholas
memories of Olga
memories of Rasputin
memories of Revolution
news from Tsarskoe Selo
nursing training of imperial family
view of gossip about Alexandra and Rasputin
view of Olga
view of Rita’s visit
view of Tatiana
Chemodurov, Terenty
Child, Richard Washburn
Chirol, Sir Valentine
Christopher of Greece, Prince
Constanza
Coster, Miss (nanny)
Crimea, see also Livadia
betrothal of Nicholas and Alexandra
imperial family’s longing for
imperial family’s visits
landscape
Romanov estates
TB sanatoria
Crimean War
Darmstadt
Dassel, Felix
David, see Edward VIII
Dehn, Alexander (Titi)
Dehn, Yuliya (Lili)
arrival at Tsarskoe Selo on eve of Revolution
description of Alexey
letters from Alexandra
life after 1918
memories of four sisters
memories of Nicholas after abdication
memories of Rasputin
memories of Tsarskoe Selo
Rasputin’s death
relationship with imperial family
removed from Tsarskoe Selo
son’s illness
view of Tyutcheva
Delacroix, Henri (imperial hairdresser)
Demenkov, Nikolay (Kolya)
Demidova, Anna (Nyuta)
concealment of jewellery
death
departure from Tobolsk
departure from Tsarskoe Selo
diary
journey to Tobolsk
life at Ipatiev House
life at Tobolsk
Derevenko, Andrey
behaviour after Revolution
care of Alexey
children
relationship with Alexey
Shtandart shipwreck
Derevenko, Kolya
Derevenko, Dr Vladimir
Dmitri Pavlovich, Grand Duke
ambitions
appearance
character
childhood
friendship with Yusupov
health
house arrest
life at Livadia
marriage prospects
murder of Rasputin
news of Alexey’s illness
ordered to Persian front
playboy lifestyle
proposal to Irina
relationship with Nicholas
wartime hospital in palace
Dolgorouky, Princess Barbara
Dolgorukov, Prince Vasili
death
departure from Tobolsk
journey to Tobolsk
life at Tobolsk
life at Tsarskoe Selo
return to Tsarskoe Selo with Nicholas
Dostoevsky, Feodor
Downey, William
Duma
Dyachenko, Grigory
Eagar, Margaretta
Alexandra’s illness
arrival at Winter Palace
background
care of Olga, Tatiana and Maria
chaperone
dismissal
Elisabeth’s death
life in London
Maria’s christening
view of Anastasia
view of Maria
view of Olga
view of Tatiana
wartime conversations
wartime occupations
Edward VII (Bertie) (eldest son of Queen Victoria, formerly Prince of Wales)
daughter Maud
death
family meeting (1908)
Nicholas’s Balmoral visit
relinquishes right to Coburg
Reval meeting
sister Alice’s marriage
sons
Edward VIII (David) (eldest son of George V, formerly Prince of Wales)
Edward, Duke of Clarence
Ekaterinburg
Elchaninov, Major-General Andrey
Eleonore of Solms-Hoensolms-Lich (Onor), Princess
Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, Princess
Elizabeth, Queen of Romania
Elizaveta Feodorovna, Grand Duchess see Ella
Ella, Grand Duchess
birth of niece Olga
childhood
comforting Olga
convent
guardian of Maria and Dmitri
husband’s assassination
marriage
parcel for family at Ipatiev House
religion
Sarov ceremony
sister Alix’s pregnancy
support for sister Alix’s marriage
Tsarskoe Selo visit
view of Rasputin
warnings against Philippe
Winter Palace renovation
Epps, John
Ernest (Ernie), Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
childhood
daughter
divorce
First World War
hunting lodge
letters from Alix
letters to Alix
marriages
mother’s death
relationship with sister Alix
sister Alix’s marriage
sister Alix’s pregnancies
sister Alix’s telegram
sister Alix’s visits
sons
wartime
Ersberg, Elizaveta
Fabergé, Eugene
Fabergé, Pierre-Karl
Fabrice, Gretchen von
Fallières, President Armand
Faure, President Félix
Feodorov, Dr Sergey
advice to Nicholas
arrival of assistant
baffled by Alexey’s recovery
bulletin on Alexey’s health
care of Alexey
dislike of Rasputin
fears for Alexey
Feodorovsky Gorodok
Feodorovsky Sobor
Feofan, Archimandrite