Christmas greetings from Grand Duchess Olga to another Olga
December 26, 2021
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Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna as a nurse in WWI – postcard from the author’s personal collection
Remembering Grand Duchess Olga on what would have been her birthday
November 14, 2021
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I was reminded by the Facebook post in the group “In the Steps of the Romanovs” that Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, eldest daughter of the Tsar Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, was born on 15th November. The Facebook post is linked to Helen Azar’s video about GD Olga’s
In the Years 1915-1917 the Bank was Foreign
October 3, 2021
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My parents and grandparents were definitely hoarders. Each time I attempt to sort through the papers and letters and documents and photographs and other things I brought home after the death of my father; I am amazed at how much they kept. Bearing in mind either my grandparents had to
What happened to her fur coat?
September 26, 2021
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I often find documents in the many papers I inherited, which make me wonder about why they have been kept for so long. Documents which nowadays we would (and I do) throw out after they are no longer needed – of course many of our documents are now virtual. In
Talking of pandemics – typhus, typhoid fever and cholera in 1919
August 22, 2021
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The Covid-19 pandemic and the recent lockdown here in Melbourne had me searching through my grandmother’s papers. I knew that she had kept notes on the diseases which devastated southern Russia in 1919. It was the time of the Civil War in Russia and my grandfather was fighting with the
The Romanov Family and their Patrons
July 18, 2021
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This weekend, the execution on 17 July 1918, of the last Tsar of Russia, his family and their faithful staff, will be commemorated by many. There will be posts on social media and, no doubt, articles in newspapers and services in the Russian Orthodox churches remembering this dark day in
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