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Olga Grigor'eva at lastromanovs on VK
Above: Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia.
Above: Peter Vasilievich Petrov with Tatiana's younger brother the Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia.
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (born May 29/June 10, 1897, died July 17, 1918) was the second daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last monarch of Russia, and of Empress Alexandra. She was born at Peterhof, Saint Petersburg.
Tatiana was the younger sister of Grand Duchess Olga and the elder sister of Grand Duchess Maria, Grand Duchess Anastasia and Tsarevich Alexei. She was known amongst her siblings as "the governess" for her domineering but also maternal ways. Tatiana was the closest out of all the children to her mother, often spending many hours reading to her. She was often thought to be the most beautiful of all her sisters, and was the most aristocratic in appearance. During World War I, she chaired many charity committees and (along with her older sister Grand Duchess Olga) trained to become a nurse. She tended to wounded soldiers on the grounds of Tsarskoe Selo from 1914 to 1917. Her time as a nurse came to an end with her family's arrest in 1917 after the first Russian Revolution.
Her murder by communist revolutionaries on 17 July 1918 resulted in her being named as a passion bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church. Tatiana and all of her siblings were falsely rumored to have survived the assassination and dozens of impostors claimed to be surviving Romanovs. Author Michael Occleshaw speculated that a woman named Larissa Tudor might have been Tatiana; however, all of the Romanovs, including Tatiana, were killed by the Bolsheviks.
The letter:
Волконская, 12
Дорогой Петръ Васильевичъ!
Я немогу выучить то - что вы мнѣ задали, И немогу переписать. Отчего вы написали преданный непай? Такъ не надо а надо писать очень пай.
Преданная
Непай
Татьяна
1906.
10-го Іюля.
With modernised spelling:
Волконская, 12
Дорогой Петр Васильевич!
Я немогу выучить то - что вы мне задали, И немогу переписать. Отчего вы написали преданный непай? Так не надо а надо писать очень пай.
Преданная
Непай
Татьяна
1906.
10-го Июля.
English translation (my own):
Volkonskaya, 12.
Dear Peter Vasilievich!
I can't learn what you asked me, And I can't rewrite. Why did you write devoted nepai? So it is not necessary, but it is necessary to write a lot of pai.
Devoted
Nepai
Tatiana
1906.
10th July.
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