Admiral in the Russian Imperial Navy, and godfather, but who was he?
This week I began to sort through the numerous photo albums which I inherited. My parents and grandparents, and no doubt other relatives, were very
This week I began to sort through the numerous photo albums which I inherited. My parents and grandparents, and no doubt other relatives, were very
Some of the most difficult decisions I had to make in my life were made in the couple of months after my father died, when
My father loved ships. Twice in his life his dream of crossing the rolling seas on an ocean liner was realised. Once when he left
I have a vague childhood memory of the evenings between Christmas on the 25December and Russian Christmas on the 7 January spent curled up on
On 1 January 1946 my great-grandmother, Catherine Nicolaievna Jakowzoff (formerly Countess Kleinmichel), sent a Christmas / New Year greeting to her granddaughter, my mother. The
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna as a nurse in WWI – postcard from the author’s personal collection
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