Мария Николаевна и Анастасия Николаевна на Штандарте, 1911 (?) год

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Сегодня “юбилей” у самой прекрасной Княжны, 120 лет назад родилась Ольга Николаевна. Today celebrates “anniversary” the most beautiful Grand Duchess; 120 years ago was born Olga Nikolaevna.

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 Anya Bukavitsky(Ivanov) Alliance: WHITES Occupation:Farmer. Romance: Vladamir Bukavitsky Sex: Female Relation:Vladamire Bukavitsky(Husband) Dimirti Bukavitsky(Son) Playby: Naomi Watts

Not much is said about Anya, all we know is that she was a kind hearted woman who married Vladamir back in the 1800’s Their Romance was forbidden. Anya was born to a wealthy family. Which family we are not sure, that is a part for the writer to invent? She was the youngest daughter of a duke who was a distant cousin to the Tsar.

Anya met Vlad when she was thirteen. He was the son of an imperial officer, of the Russian Navy. He was handsome, strong and a bit of a flirt. Vladamir was seventeen and in training to be an assigned member of the Royal Navy. The two fell in love, and within a few months Anya was pregnant. Vladamir left his training, to take Anya to the country, so the two of them could raise their family in peace. Anya’s father was extremely insulted telling Anya if she left at the mere age of fifteen, to run off with some soldier in training, he would bane her from the family name and she was never allowed to come back.

Katya made her choice and the two ran off to Siberia, choosing to lose contact with their entire family. Vlad stayed true to his word and built a farm for his young and soon to be child. Sadly to the young couples dismay Anya mis-carried at seven months. The couple went into a deep depression, which lasted a year and a half. The farm prospered, and their love went up and down. Anya even thought it best to return to her family at some point, but just as she did the couple had been blessed with another miracle. Anya was pregnant again. This time the couple vowed to make no mistake, and Vlad promised to five Anyathe proper care and comfort. Once the labor had begun, Vlad had called a nursemaid to arrive. Anya went into excruciating labor for five days. Suddenly once the baby was born. Katya hemorrhaged and died and to Vlad’s dismay, his newborn son, had not taken his first breath….ever! Vlad buried his family at the barn, to have them forever be a reminder of his mistake. Anya and Dimitri. Piotr Zakrevsky Alliance: WHITES Occupation:Stable Boy at the Peterhof Palace, later to become a Sailor for the Imperial navy. Romance: Tatiana Romanov? Sex: Male Relation:N/A? Playby: Colin o'Donoghue

Piotr Zakrevsky becoming a stable boy at the Peterhof Palace was a thing of chance. He owed his job entirely to his father knowing one person of slight importance. His family was entirely too big and unable to support all of their children and so at the age of eight he was sent to his father’s friend to work as a stable boy under his watch. Piotr was rather gifted with horses as it happened and was one day walking an old mare of the Romanov family’s back to the stable when he saw a horse spook and take off into nearby woods. Normally it wasn’t something he would have thought about but he heard screams and in haste tied the mare to the stable and grabbed the fastest horse he could without wasting time. Within minutes he was able to calm down the horse and save the young woman on it. The young woman was the Grand Duchess Tatiana. To make matters more interesting the little Grand Duchess Anastasia had also witnessed the event but seemed to be out of it. Which also made a request to go see the Tsar with the women impossible.

Piotr was awe struck at how beautiful and kind he found the Grand Duchess Tatiana to be. He tried to insist she not make it a big deal that he saved her. Piotr even called it his ‘duty’ to help a woman in need if she was in any danger but the Grand Duchess insisted upon taking him to her father. To say no would be more trouble than was worth and so he complied. The Tsar was so pleased and grateful that he placed Piotr as a guard in the Palace. Going so far as to entrust Piotr to shift between guarding his son and his daughters. Over the course of that summer he began to form a sense of loyalty towards the Romanov family. It also seemed he became the Grand Duchess Tatiana’s personal errand boy. He was sent to town often to pick up things for the young lady. He’d also often accompany her along with some other guards when she would go help the less fortunate along with her older sister, Olga.

He had fallen in love with the Grand Duchess Tatiana over that few month time period. Piotr saw the good she did to help others and was absolutely done for but he knew nothing could ever come of it due to his standing. A guard wasn’t high enough to get a Grand Duchess and he highly doubted that he would ever be good enough in that respect for her. Just as soon as the summer was over he was sent from the palace to join the Imperial Navy at the request of Tatiana to her father. The week and a half before being sent away the Grand Duchess started to act cold towards him and so he had never found a need to go back to the palace.

Piotr quickly rose in rank in the Imperial Navy as he was a good soldier doing as he was told. He was of a sharp wit and kept calm in perilous situations. He focused on his duties in the Imperial Navy to keep him from thinking about Tatiana. Overall it was a strategy that worked and he even found a tight knit small group of men whom he could trust to have his back in any given situation. It wasn’t until he had gotten the information that the Romanov family was being held hostage, by the Soviet Union, that he began to plan leaving the Imperial Navy. From Common knowledge rumors had flooded the streets of St. Petersburg. The Tsar had abdicated as well as for the Tsarevich. Now, he’d have to obey orders from Stalin. Which any loyal Russian would have frowned upon, and luckily Piotr was one of those loyal Russians, indeed. Over night, a week before the execution, Piotr took his most trusted men, a group of five besides him, whom were all loyal to the Tsar and went on foot towards the Impetiv House. All with the intent to pull the family out of exile. They were no longer royals, therefor they should be free, should they not?

This mission ended in tragedy and they were ambushed twenty miles from the site. Piotr was the only one who got away and lived.

He had managed to get to the site just as gunshots rang. Piotr looked in horror from the woods, as screams rang high. He watched as the bodies of the Imperial family, wrapped in bloody bed linens, had been hoisted on a wagon. He had owed his life to family.Now they were all dead. How could someone kill children?

Afterwards he fled into Serbia/Syberia where he ran into Tatiana. She had survived and fled as soon as the Soldier’s who executed her family was gone. She had tried to find Alexi and Anastasia to no avail and upon hearing gun shots assumed the worst and fled. Though they were both wanted Piotr went on the run with Tatiana into baron farmlands where they weren’t likely to get caught. They changed their names to Sergei Torchinovich and Vera Shikalov. They married a year after they went into hiding and had a daughter around their one year wedding anniversary. Though his wife had calmed down over the years with the rumors of her brother and sister he still kept an eye out for anything that might reunite Tatiana with her family knowing it would give her much happiness to have that back. Pierre Gilliard Alliance: WHITES Occupation:Tutor to the royal children. Romance: N/A? Sex: Male Relation:N/A? Playby: Colin Firth Pierre Gilliard was born on 16 May 1879 in Vaud, Switzerland. In his memoirs, Gilliard wrote that he initially came to Russia in 1904 as a French tutor to the family of Duke George of Leuchtenberg, a cousin of the Romanov family. He was recommended as a French tutor to the Tsar’s children and began teaching the elder children, Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia in 1905. He grew fond of the family and followed them into internal exile at Tobolsk, Siberia, following the Russian Revolution of 1917. The Bolsheviks prevented Gilliard from joining his pupils when they were moved to the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg in May 1918. He described his final view of the children in his memoirs: The sailor Nagorny, who attended to Alexei Nikolaevitch, passed my window carrying the sick boy in his arms, behind him came the Grand Duchesses loaded with valises and small personal belongings. I tried to get out, but was roughly pushed back into the carriage by the sentry. I came back to the window. Tatiana Nikolaevna came last carrying her little dog and struggling to drag a heavy brown valise. It was raining and I saw her feet sink into the mud at every step. Nagorny tried to come to her assistance; he was roughly pushed back by one of the commissars … Gilliard remained in Siberia after the murders of the family, assisting White Russian investigator Nicholas Sokolov. He married Alexandra “Shura” Tegleva, who had been a nurse to Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, in 1919. In Siberia, he was instrumental in unmasking an impostor who claimed to be the Tsarevich Alexei. In 1920, he returned to Switzerland via the Russian Far East. He became a French professor at the University of Lausanne and was awarded the French Legion of Honor.[5] In 1921, he published a book entitled Le Tragique Destin de Nicholas II et de sa famille, which described the last days of the Tsar and his family, and the subsequent investigation into their deaths. In 1958, Gilliard was severely injured in a car accident in Lausanne. He never fully recovered and died four years later on 30 May 1962 Vladamir Derevenko Alliance: REDS/WHITES Occupation:Sailor Nanny to the Tsarevich and physician and surgeon in the Royal Household. Romance: N/A? Sex: Male Relation:N/A? Playby: Konstantin Khabensky Before the revolution, Derevenko was a physician who served at the court of the last Tsar. He was a specialist Doctor assigned to look after the Tsarevich in 1912 , who suffered from haemophilia. His son, Kolya Derevenko, was a friend of Alexei. Nicholas II abdicated in March 1917 and was exiled with his family to the Siberian village of Tobolsk that August, a journey on which Derevenko and his family voluntarily embarked. In May 1918 the Derevenkos accompanied the Imperial family to the Siberian city of Yekaterinburg. Like many others, they were prohibited from staying with the Romanovs inside the Ipatiev House. Instead they stayed in a house across the street, though Derevenko was occasionally allowed to treat Nicholas’s son, Alexei Nikolaevich. Early in the morning of 17 July 1918 the former Imperial family and four retainers were murdered by order of the Bolshevik government.

One week after the murders, Yekaterinburg fell to the anti-Bolshevik White Army. As the civil war reached its climax. Derevenko and his family remained in Yekaterinburg, where he practiced medicine and aided White investigators in their inquiry into the Imperial family’s murder, until late 1918 when the Bolshevik Red Army recaptured the city and Derevenko moved his family to the White Army stronghold of Perm, where he taught at Perm University’s hospital. The Bolsheviks regained the city the next year and the Derevenkos again relocated, this time to Tomsk, where he became head of the district military hospital. He was arrested by the NKVD in the early 1930s and executed in 1936 during the Great Purge. Yevgeny Botkin Alliance: WHITES Occupation: Royal Physician Romance: N/A? Sex: Male Relation: Gleb Botkin( Youngest Son) Tatiana Botkin(daughter) Dimitri Botkin(Eldest Son) Yuri(Daughter) PLayby: Gary Oldman Botkin was the son of Sergey Botkin, who had been a court physician under Tsars Alexander II and Alexander III. Botkin himself studied medicine at the University of St. Petersburg and at the Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg.He was later appointed chief physician at St. Georgievsky Hospital in St. Petersburg. He served with distinction aboard the St. Georgievsky Hospital Train during the Russo-Japanese War. He was appointed court physician in 1908. Botkin married and had four children, Dimitri, Yuri, Gleb, and Tatiana. His marriage broke up under the strain caused by Botkin’s dedication to the Romanovs and his long hours at court. His wife, Olga, started an affair with the children’s German tutor and asked for, and was granted, a divorce. Botkin was later devastated when his oldest sons, Dimitri and Yuri, were killed in action during World War I. Botkin became increasingly religious and “developed an increasing abhorrence for the flesh,” according to his son Gleb.“From a very tender age, his beautiful and noble nature was complete,” his brother Peter recalled later. “He was never like other children. Always sensitive, of a delicate, inner sweetness of extraordinary soul, he had a horror of any kind of struggle or fight. We other boys would fight with a fury. He would not take part in our combats, but when our pugilism took on a dangerous character he would stop the combatants at risk of injuring himself. He was very studious and conscientious in his studies. For a profession he chose medicine: to help, to succor, to soothe, to heal without end. Botkin felt it was duty to accompany the Romanovs into exile, not only because of his responsibility to his patients, the Romanov family, but also to the country.[1] Botkin was considered a friend by Tsar Nicholas II and the doctor also often spoke with Tsarina Alexandra in her native German and acted as a translator for her when she received a Russian delegation. Commander Yakov Yurovsky, the head of the command at the Ipatiev House, knocked on his door and ordered him that the Romanov party was to get dressed and come downstairs. Yurovksy told him there was firing in the town and the party was to be evacuated. Instead, the family and their servants were murdered a short time later. Katya Bukavitsky Alliance: WHITES Occupation: House Mum(Whore House Manager in Moscow) Romance: N/A? Sex: Female Relation: Vladamir Bukavitsky(Cousin) PLayby: Cathy Bates Katya only has a few things said about her, here and there. She is a conniving heavy set woman, who honestly only cares about money. She is one the white side, during the war. Or so she says. She is selfish quiet fake. She owns a whore house in Moscow and has owned the Whore house for years. She was with Vlad, visiting him for the winter. Whilst they are traveling, Her and Vlad notice two small bodies in the snow. They are the bodies of Tsarevich Alexei and grand Duchess Anastasia. Both of them, were unconscious and bloody. Her and Vlad carry the week bodies back to the farmhouse. Vlad put the boy upstairs to try and cover up his wounds. This is where Ana wakes up from her unconscious state. Katya notices that the girl is screaming hysterically and does not know who she is. This is a problem. Vlad and Katya decide it is best to separate the children for further worry of the Soviets looking for them. If one is caught at least the other one survives.

Katya and Vlad decide it best to rename Anastasia, to Anya. There she is given to Katya to take to her orphanage, and she is supposed to call Anya her own. Which originally was the plan. But Katya is very cunning and conniving. She told Vlad she worked at an orphanage. But in reality she works at a whore house. This when she brings Anya, back with her as a scullery maid.

Through the three years Anya stays with Katya, she does grow on the woman, but money gets in the way. During 1921, Rasputin whom is a regular customer notices Anya, in the whore house. He offers to buy her, giving Katya fourteen hundred rubles. With the money in front of her, she could not turn it down. Plus she winds up thinking it best since there are thousands of newspapers popping up, that Anastasia has survived. She admits to herself it best if she sold the girl, to keep her alive. In case any guards came snooping around. With that she sells Anya and writes a letter to Vlad, explain of Anya’s death of a fever. Dimitri Kagarlitskiy Alliance: REDS Sex: Male Relation: Maris(Mother) Sofia(sister) Occupation: Kitchen boy for the Royal Household and a Soviet Union Soldier in stationed in Siberia, at the House of Special Purpose. Playby: Andrew Knott Romance: Anastasia Nicholavna He was born in St.Petersburg, with his mother Maris and his Father Yavok. Yavok passed away before his tenth birthday, of the fever. His sister Sofia was only two. Whilst becoming the man of the house, he then set out in search of a job. He worked small jobs; mind you he was only ten. Through the years he would work in kitchens and clean chimneys. He would do anything to make an honest living. Sadly, his morals were killed, when his mother had fallen ill.

One evening before his thirteenth birthday, he was wondering the streets, during the white nights; which is a phenomenon causing the night time to be day. He had spotted a bakery which held a loaf of bread in the store window. Breaking the glass, he stole bread. Dimitri was running from none other than a baker. When he ran into an imperial guard. Long story short, since he was a minor, he was taken in front of the Tsar for his punishment.

Whilst during his judgment, he pleaded to the Tsar, explaining how ill his mother was and that he had to watch over his sister now, with his father’s death. He explained how hard it was for him to make enough money, with his age and status. He watched the tsar contemplate, and rub his beard with though that is when a little girl came running into the room. Her hair was long and reddish blonde. She could not have been older than ten. She was short which made her look much younger than she seemed. Dimitri watched as her white shoes pitter patterned on the wooden flooring. She was crying as she curled up into the Tsar’s lap. Dimitri assumed it had to have been one of the four Grand Duchess’, preferably the youngest.

The Tsar had seemed flustered, yet coddled the girl like she was a baby. He whispered something to her and Dimitri watched as the two spoke quietly. To Dimitri’s luck, the Tsar was too preoccupied with his daughter’s needs so he did the only thing that came to his mind. Long Story short, Dimitri was sentenced to be a kitchen boy for life, without pay. The boy was thankful his head was saved, the sad part was he was not being paid, which meant little for his family.

Within the two years of working as a kitchen boy at the Royal Palace, Dimitri had gotten used to his knew life. Though he would steal morsales from the kitchen daily to feed his mother and sister, he did enjoy the company. For the Little girl who mistakenly saved his life, was the Grand Duchess indeed. The Grand Duchess Anastasia. Dimitri had become rather infatuated with her. The fact that he thought she was very beautiful and a Princess was just bonus. Soon enough Dimitri and Anastasia begin to build a small affair. Ofcourse with Dimitri’s tidiness, the Duchess was the one to suggest it. Then again she was the one who suggested everything. She was very pushy and demanding, but Dimitri liked it. Although everything scared him, and since he was a shy boy he was easily convinced of love.

Sadly, in 1913 Anastasia and Dimitri were caught by the Tsar. The Tsar caught them kissing in the mauve room at two in the morning. For Anastasia’s punishment, the Tsar banishes Dimitri from the palace, refusing to pay him anything for his work. In heartbreak Dimitri leaves, never to be seen again.

During the years of Dimitri’s banishment, his mother dies and his sister goes missing. He begins to blame the royal family for his troubles and believes if it were not for the Tsar putting him as a kitchen boy, he would have never been banished and he would have been able to find a better Job to take care of his family.

During 1916 Dimitri joins the reds, against the Tsar. He later becomes one of the men assigned to kill the royal family in Siberia. While the Royal family is held hostage, Anastasia and Alexei recognize him as well as Nicholas. He is rather brutal with the family, as well as the other guards. But, in 1918, the night of the murder he actually does one thing good. Once the bodies were shot and thrown on the cart to be cremated, he notices Anastasia and Alexei were still moving. He said nothing, but distracted the guards with stupid banter as the two children of the royal family escaped the cremation.

Olga was deeply devoted to her father, who in turn valued her natural intelligence and when she grew up, he felt comfortable sharing with her even his political troubles. The two would often take long walks in the palace park, discussing the worsening situation in their country, and taking solace in each other. Olga shared her father´s melancholic disposition, while her siblings had none of it.

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanov with Pavel Voronov.

Мария Николаевна и Анастасия Николаевна, 1915-16 гг.

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“A big squeeze to your hand and face. Thinking of you. Love you always, everywhere “ - Anastasia to her father, Tsar Nicholas II.

Love and affection was rampant in the Romanov family, especially the families of the last two Russian Emperors. Alexander III and Nicholas II were both family men and would prefer to be with their families instead of living in pomp and ceremony their jobs demanded. Unlike their predecessors, they were both very faithful to their wives as they never had any mistresses.

Their many letters serve as evidence for their deep affection for each other. In fact, Nicholas II did not abdicate in favor for his son because he could not bear leaving the burden of a revolting country on his young and sickly son’s shoulders nor could he let his son to be taken away from his family.

When the little Grand Duchess Olga was born, Tsar Nicholas II is reported to have said: “I am glad the child is a girl; had it been a boy he would have belonged to the people; being a girl, she belongs to us.“  Despite the harbored hatred many Russians felt towards the family for their politics, the Romanovs had a deep affection for their country. After meeting a potential Romanian royal suitor for marriage (of whom she intensely disliked), the same Olga has said, “I am a Russian and I shall remain a Russian!” Love for family (and Russia) was a dominant trait. Sometimes even their worst enemies could not deny them this.

The Little Pair with tennis rackets.

Алексей Николаевич в Севастополе, 1914 год ГА РФ, ф. 640 оп. 3 д. 25 л. 41 об. фото 593  

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Maria, Olga and Anastasia - 1910.