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The Romanov Sisters

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by Helen Rappaport

Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Romania (King from 1914)

  Fischer, Dr

  Fisher, Admiral of the Fleet Sir John

  Foster Fraser, John

  Franz Ferdinand, Archduke

  Fraser, Lt-General Charles

  Freedericksz, Count Vladimir

  Frittie (Prince Friedrich of Hesse, son of Princess Alice)

  Fülöp-Miller, René

  Funk, Alexander

  Gavriil Konstantinovich, Prince

  Gedroits, Princess Vera (Dr)

  background

  concern for Olga

  life after 1918

  operations

  response to abdication

  supervision of military hospitals

  Tatiana’s assistance

  training of Alexandra, Olga and Tatiana

  view of Rasputin

  Georg Donatus of Hesse, Prince

  George, Grand Duchess

  George V (previously Duke of York, then Prince of Wales)

  appearance

  coronation

  imperial family visit to Isle of Wight

  marriage

  offer of help to Romanov family

  telegram to Nicholas

  war with Germany

  withdraws offer of help

  George VI (Bertie)

  George of Battenberg, Prince

  George of Greece, Prince

  George of Serbia, Prince

  Georgiy Alexandrovich, Grand Duke

  Geraschinevsky, Captain Mikhail

  Geringer, Mariya

  Gibbes, Sydney (Sig)

  Anastasia’s essay

  arrival at Ekaterinburg

  arrival at Tobolsk

  background

  brings book

  departure of Nicholas and Alexandra

  journey to Ekaterinburg

  last sight of Romanov sisters

  life after 1918

  life at Ekaterinburg

  life at Tobolsk

  memories of Alexey

  memories of four sisters

  pet name

  post with imperial family

  stuck in Petrograd

  teaching Alexey

  theatricals at Tobolsk

  view of Anastasia

  view of Maria

  view of Nicholas

  view of Olga

  view of Rasputin

  view of Tatiana

  visit to Ipatiev House

  Gilliard, Frederick

  Gilliard, Pierre (Zhilik)

  accident at Tobolsk

  Alexandra’s grief for Rasputin

  Alexey’s illness

  Alexey’s response to abdication

  appearance

  arrival in Ekaterinburg

  arrival in schoolroom

  continuing French lessons

  departure of Nicholas and Alexandra

  duties

  escape proposal

  governor to Alexey

  imprisonment in palace

  journey to Ekaterinburg

  journey to Tobolsk

  last sight of Romanov sisters

  lessons at Livadia

  life after 1918

  life at Ekaterinburg

  life at Tobolsk

  marriage

  Olga’s marriage plans

  preparations for journey

  responses to war

  teaching Alexey

  theatricals at Tobolsk

  Tobolsk accounts

  travel with Romanov family

  twisted ankle

  view of captivity

  view of guards

  view of Olga

  view of shaved heads

  view of sisters in wartime

  view of Tatiana

  visit to Ipatiev House

  Gippius, Zinaida

  Girsh, Dr Gustav

  Glyn, Elinor

  Godunov, Boris

  Golden Ring

  Golitsyn family

  Golitsyna, Princess Mariya

  Goloshchekin, Commissar Filipp

  Grabbe, Count Nikolay

  Grey, Lady Sybil

  Grote, Dr Georg

  Günst, Evgeniya

  haemophilia

  Alexandra’s mental state

  Alexey’s crisis at Spala

  Alexey’s crisis at Tobolsk

  Alexey’s first symptoms

  causes

  equipment to help Alexey

  life expectancy of sufferer

  press reports

  reliance on Rasputin

  risks of inheriting

  secrecy and rumours

  treatments

  Victoria’s descendants

  Hamilton, Gerald

  Hardie, Keir

  Hardinge, Lord

  Harrogate

  Helena of Serbia, Princess

  Helena Victoria, Princess (Thora)

  Hendrikova, Nastenka (Anastasia)

  chaperone

  death

  lessons for Anastasia

  life at Tobolsk

  premonition of deaths

  preparations for journey

  remaining at Tsarskoe Selo

  role at Tsarskoe Selo

  Henry of Prussia, Prince

  Hoffa, Professor Albert

  Holmes, Burton

  Hunt, Violet

  icons

  Alexey’s bedroom

  gifts of

  Most Holy Mother of God

  Mother of God (Abalatksy Monastery)

  Mother of God (Kazan Cathedral)

  Mother of God, also known as ‘Our Lady of the Sign’ (Znamenie Church)

  Nikolay the Wonderworker

  Our Lady of the Sign

  painted by Alexandra

  parades with

  St Dimitri

  St Nicholas

  St Simeon of Verkhoture

  sisters’ rooms

  Tobolsk procession

  Uspensky Cathedral

  Virgin of Kazan

  Iedigarov, David

  Iliodor, Father

  Inman, Mrs (nanny)

  Ioann Konstaninovich (Ioannchik), Prince

  Ipatiev, Nikolay

  Ipatiev House

  Ipatiev Monastery

  Irene, Princess Henry of Prussia

  Irina, Princess

  Iswolsky, Hélène

  Ivanov, Konstantin

  Jackson, Margaret (Madgie)

  Kabanov, Alexey

  Kapralova, Vera

  Karangozov, Nikolay

  Kardovsky, Dmitry

  Keppel, Alice

  Kerensky, Alexander

  accusations against

  evacuation of Romanov family

  plans for Romanov family

  provisional government

  removal of Vyrubova and Lili Dehn

  separation of Nicholas and Alexandra

  supervision of Romanov family

  visits to Tsarskoe Selo

  Kharitonov, Ivan

  Khitrovo, Margarita (Rita; later Erdeli)

  arrest

  arrival at Tobolsk

  arrival at Tsarskoe Selo

  letters

  letters from Olga and Tatiana

  life after 1918

  Khodynka Fields tragedy (1896)

  Kiknadze, Vladimir (Volodya)

  Kirill Vladimirovich, Grand Duke

  Kleikenberg, Herr (German teacher)

  Kleinmikhel, Countess

  Kleinmikhel, Olga

  Kobylinsky, Evgeny

  death

  departure of Nicholas, Alexandra and Maria

  escort to Tobolsk

  head of garrison at Tsarskoe Selo

  life after 1918

  marriage

  objects to removal of Alexey

  position at Tobolsk

  relationship with Klavdiya Bitner

  view of Nicholas

  view of Rodionov

  Kobylinsky, Innokenty

  Kokovtsov, Vladimir

  Kolchak, Alexande
r

  Kolyaba, Mitya

  Konstantin Konstantinovich (Kostya), Grand Duke

  daughter’s wedding

  disappointment at births of girls

  First World War outbreak

  hopes for Alexandra’s pregnancies

  son’s wedding

  view of Revolution

  view of secrecy over Rasputin

  war service

  Kornilov, General Lavr

  Korovichenko, Pavel

  Korovin, Dr

  Kostritsky, Sergey

  Kostroma

  Kotzebue, Pavel

  Krasnoe Selo

  Kremlin

  Kschessinska, Mathilde

  Kutuzov, Field Marshal Mikhail

  Lalaing, Jacques, Comte de

  Lenin, Vladimir

  Leopold, Prince, Duke of Albany

  Leuchtenburg, Duke of

  Lion, HMS

  Livadia

  Alexandra at

  Alexey’s illness

  betrothal of Nicholas and Alexandra

  Easter at

  flowers

  landscape

  life at

  longing for

  new palace (White Palace)

  Olga’s first ball

  Romanov summer palace

  summer weather

  trips to

  Lloyd George, David

  Loch, Emily

  Long, Robert Crozier

  Loubet, Emile

  Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse

  Louis XVI, King of France

  Louis (Dickie) of Battenberg, Prince (later Lord Mountbatten)

  Louis of Hesse, Grand Duke

  Louise of Battenberg, Princess (later Queen Louise of Sweden)

  Lucy, Sir Henry William

  Lytton, Lady

  Makarov, Commissar

  Makyukho (officer)

  Malama, Dmitri (Mitya)

  Mandelshtam, Nadezhda

  Manuel II, King of Portugal

  Maples (furniture store)

  Margareta, Crown Princess of Sweden

  Margarita of Greece

  Maria Alexandrovna, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg

  MARIA NIKOLAEVNA, Grand Duchess

  accident at Tobolsk

  accompanying parents from Tobolsk

  appearance

  admired

  after illness

  childhood

  fat

  head shaved

  infancy

  official photographs

  plump with fine eyes

  arrival at Ekaterinburg

  arrival at Tobolsk

  bedroom

  behaviour

  birth

  brother’s illness

  cemetery visit

  chaperone

  character

  childhood

  christening

  clothes

  ball dress and high heels

  court dress

  matching with sister Anastasia

  outfits

  satin tea dress

  under-linen in rags

  wardrobe expenditure

  white ensemble

  Crimean visits

  death

  departure from Tsarskoe Selo

  destruction of diary

  education

  family position

  health

  German measles

  hair loss

  measles

  pleurisy

  vigorous

  hospital visiting

  journey to Tobolsk

  Kiev visit

  leaving Alexander Palace

  letter to brother

  letters from Tobolsk

  letters to father

  life aboard Shtandart

  life at Ipatiev House

  life at Tobolsk

  love life

  marriage prospects

  military role

  Mogilev visit

  Moscow visit

  Novgorod visit

  presented at court

  public role

  regiment

  relationship with father

  relationship with mother

  relationship with Rasputin

  relationship with sister Anastasia

  response to First World War outbreak

  response to Rasputin’s death

  response to Revolution

  response to Russo-Japanese War

  riding

  Romanov Tercentenary

  St Petersburg entertainments

  sledging

  social life

  theatricals at Tobolsk

  Tsarskoe Selo crisis

  ‘victim of political repression’

  visit to England

  MARIA FEODOROVNA (Minny), Dowager Empress

  Alexey’s christening

  ball for granddaughters’ debut

  correspondence

  Fabergé Easter eggs

  First World War outbreak

  granddaughter Olga’s birth

  granddaughter Olga’s christening

  medical advice

  press reports

  Rasputin concerns

  relationship with daughter-in-law

  relationship with granddaughters

  St Petersburg concert

  Sarov ceremony

  sociable and popular

  son’s abdication

  Maria Pavlovna the elder (Miechen) see Vladimir, Grand Duchess

  Maria Pavlovna the younger, Grand Duchess

  Alexey’s haemophilia

  brother’s behaviour

  childhood

  First World War outbreak

  marriage

  memories of Tsarskoe Selo

  social life

  Marie, Crown Princess of Romania (later Queen)

  correspondence with mother

  imperial family’s visit

  on seclusion of imperial family

  son’s marriage prospects

  Markov, Cornet S. V.

  Mary, Queen (earlier Princess Mary of Teck, then Princess of Wales)

  Marye, Mrs George

  Mather, Miss

  Maud of Wales, Princess

  May (daughter of Princess Alice)

  Mary of Teck, see Mary, Queen

  Melik-Adamov, Sergey

  Meltzer, Roman

  Mezhants, Paulina

  Mikhail Alexandrovich, Grand Duke

  Mikhail Feodorovich, Tsar

  Mikhail Nikolaevich, Grand Duke

  Mikhail Romanov, Tsar

  Mikhailovna, Mariya

  Militza of Montenegro, Princess (wife of Grand Duke Petr)

  Miller, James Russell

  Min, General Georgiy

  Mogilev

  Moscow

  Mosolov, General Alexander

  Mott, Thomas Bentley

  Nagorny, Klementy

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Naryshkina, Elizaveta

  advice on evacuation

  Alexandra’s farewell

  care of girls

  concern for Alexandra

  concern for children

  diaries

  Easter celebrations

  film shows

  health

  hopes for Olga and Tatiana’s social life

  hopes for Olga’s marriage

  house arrest at Tsarskoe Selo

  letters from Alexandra

  life after 1918

  mistress of the robes

  Rasputin concerns

  Seraphim’s sainthood

  trapped in Petrograd

  view of abdication

  view of escape plans

  waiting for Nicholas

  Neidgardt, Alexey

  New Zealand, HMS

  NICHOLAS II, Tsar

  abdication

  accession

  accusations against

  anniversary of Napoleon’s defeat

  appearance

  army command

  arrival at Ekaterinburg<
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  Bad Nauheim visit

  Balmoral visit

  birth of daughter Anastasia

  birth of daughter Maria

  birth of daughter Olga

  birth of daughter Tatiana

  birth of son Alexey

  Black Sea Fleet review

  children’s marriage prospects

  Christmas at Tobolsk

  coup possible

  Crimean visits

  daughter Olga’s first ball

  daughter Olga’s marriage prospects

  daughter Tatiana’s marriage prospects

  daughters’ St Petersburg debut

  death

  dentistry

  departure from Tsarskoe Selo

  diaries

  Duma

  Easter celebrations

  engagement to Alix

  escape concerns

  evacuation plans

  exile of uncle Pavel

  exile plans

  Fabergé Easter eggs

  family excursions to St Petersburg

  family life

  fatherhood

  film of imperial family

  First World War outbreak

  food rationing

  foreign policies

  forty-ninth birthday

  French state visit

  funeral of great-uncle

  Golden Ring tour

  health

  heir

  hunting

  journey to Tobolsk

  Kiev visit

  letters from family

  life aboard Shtandart

  life at Ipatiev House

  life at Tobolsk

  life at Tsarskoe Selo after abdication

  life in danger

  love for Alix

  manifesto on regency

  mental state after abdication

  press treatment of

  public responses to

  reading aloud

  relationship with Dmitri

  relationship with Maître Philippe

  relationship with Pankratov

  relationship with Rasputin

  relationship with son

  relationship with Tatiana

  removal from Tobolsk

  response to Rasputin’s death

  return to Tsarskoe Selo

  Reval meetings

  review of troops

  Romanov Tercentenary

  Sarov ceremony

  security

  Alexander Palace

  assassination dangers

  Bad Nauheim visit

  Balmoral visit

  Compiègne visit

  Cowes visit

  Grand Duke Mikhail’s funeral

  security networks

  Shtandart voyages

  separated from Alexandra

  Shtandart accident

  social life in St Petersburg

  son’s haemophilia

  Stolypin’s assassination

  tennis playing

  uniform

  ‘victim of political repression’

  visit to England

  war with Japan

  war service

  wedding

  Nikolay Nikolaevich, Grand Duke

  Nostitz, Count

  Obolenskaya, Countess Elizaveta

  Obolensky, Prince

  Ofrosimova, Svetlana

  Okhrana

  informers

  investigation of Rasputin

  reports on Philippe

  role

  security at balalaika concert

  security for Bad Nauheim visit

  security for Balmoral visit

  security for Cowes visit

 

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