tatiana
Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova was born June 10, 1897. She is the second child and second daughter of the tsar and tsarina. Tatiana was named after one of the sisters, "Olga" and "Tatiana", of a popular Russian novel Eugen Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, (161, Beeche).
Together she and Olga were inseperable. Tatiana and Olga were born only eighteen months apart. Since they were children they were known as the "Big Pair," and the younger two girls were the "Little Pair." When Olga suffered from typhoid fever in 1901, little Tatiana was by her sister's side the whole time.
At a young age, Tatiana become interested in fashion being accustomed to seeing jewels more than usual. They were used to seeing their mother in gorgeous gowns of the finest silk fabrics with jewels embedded in them and all the other noble Russian women in the royal balls.
Alexandra's friend Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden remembered the young grand duchesses:
"On one occasion they thought my dress needed a parure of rubies to complete it. I said I had none, and that my pearls would have to do. Tatiana Nikolaievna rushed off, and appeared with some brooches of hers which she wanted me to wear. I naturally refused, to her great astonishment. 'We sisters always borrow from each other,' she said, 'when we think the jewels of the one will suit the dress of the other.'
Together she and Olga were inseperable. Tatiana and Olga were born only eighteen months apart. Since they were children they were known as the "Big Pair," and the younger two girls were the "Little Pair." When Olga suffered from typhoid fever in 1901, little Tatiana was by her sister's side the whole time.
At a young age, Tatiana become interested in fashion being accustomed to seeing jewels more than usual. They were used to seeing their mother in gorgeous gowns of the finest silk fabrics with jewels embedded in them and all the other noble Russian women in the royal balls.
Alexandra's friend Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden remembered the young grand duchesses:
"On one occasion they thought my dress needed a parure of rubies to complete it. I said I had none, and that my pearls would have to do. Tatiana Nikolaievna rushed off, and appeared with some brooches of hers which she wanted me to wear. I naturally refused, to her great astonishment. 'We sisters always borrow from each other,' she said, 'when we think the jewels of the one will suit the dress of the other.'
Tatiana was the most delicate out of all the Romanov sisters and arguably the mother's favorite.
Lily Dehn described Tatiana as a dark haired beauty as she grew up:
"She had dark hair and a rather pale complexion and rather wide apart light brown eyes that gave her a poetic far away look, not quite in keeping with her character."
She was her mother's favorite because unlike Olga, she never argued with her mother and was more lenient towards her. Alexandra said if any of the children quarreled with her they "rarely understand my way of looking at things...they are always right and when I say how I was brought up and how one must be, they can't understand, find it dull. Only when I speak quietly with Tatiana she grasps it," (Kurth, 89).
The grand duchesses French tutor, Pierre Gilliard remarked about Tatiana's grace with Alexandra:
"She was very pretty, though she had not quite Olga's charm. It was not that her sisters loved their mother any less, but Tatiana knew how to surround her with unwearying affections and never gave way to her own capricious impulses," (tatiana nicholaevna-romanov sisters-webs).
As Tatiana grew up she became taller than both her father and her sister Olga. Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden remebered:
"She was taller even than the Empress, but she was so slight and well-proportioned that her great height was not remarkable. She had fine, regular features, recalling pictures of ancestresses who had been famous beauties"
She was only 21 years old when she was murdered with her family on July 17, 1918.
Lily Dehn described Tatiana as a dark haired beauty as she grew up:
"She had dark hair and a rather pale complexion and rather wide apart light brown eyes that gave her a poetic far away look, not quite in keeping with her character."
She was her mother's favorite because unlike Olga, she never argued with her mother and was more lenient towards her. Alexandra said if any of the children quarreled with her they "rarely understand my way of looking at things...they are always right and when I say how I was brought up and how one must be, they can't understand, find it dull. Only when I speak quietly with Tatiana she grasps it," (Kurth, 89).
The grand duchesses French tutor, Pierre Gilliard remarked about Tatiana's grace with Alexandra:
"She was very pretty, though she had not quite Olga's charm. It was not that her sisters loved their mother any less, but Tatiana knew how to surround her with unwearying affections and never gave way to her own capricious impulses," (tatiana nicholaevna-romanov sisters-webs).
As Tatiana grew up she became taller than both her father and her sister Olga. Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden remebered:
"She was taller even than the Empress, but she was so slight and well-proportioned that her great height was not remarkable. She had fine, regular features, recalling pictures of ancestresses who had been famous beauties"
She was only 21 years old when she was murdered with her family on July 17, 1918.