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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
The idea that Anastasia had miraculously survived the brutal execution in Ekaterinburg burst upon a world traumatized by a decade of tragedies that marked the passing of the old order: the sinking of the Titanic, the horrors of the First World War, the fall of dynasties, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the threat of communism. However unlikely, it spoke to natural human optimism, to the desire that somehow, Bolshevik bullets had failed to destroy an entire family.
Greg King and Penny Wilson, Resurrection of the Romanovs: Anastasia, Anna Anderson, and the world’s greatest royal mystery (Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011): 2. (via frickyeahanastasia)
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ugh this movie I can’t handle it’s goodness
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The Imperial children in Darmstadt: 1910.
Grand Duchess Anastasia with two of her paintings: c. 1912
Grand Duchesses Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia playing on some swings: 1907
Somehow I totally love this picture.
Far away, long ago
Things I yearn to remember
And a song someone sings
once upon a December
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Anastasia by ~EnvytheOne
This is simply amazing.
According to the cosplayer’s deviantART page, this photograph was taken in the ballroom of the Catherine Palace itself. My mind is blown.
dang girl
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Grand Duchesses Tatiana, Anastasia, Olga and Maria
Maria, Anastasia, Tatiana and Olga in 1914
One of all-time favorite Romanov photos!
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Children of Nicholas II in 1910
(l-r) Tatiana, Anastasia, Alexei, Maria and Olga
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English workbook page which shows Anastasia’s famous Evelyn Hope summary.
At Tobolsk, Anastasia wrote a melancholy theme for her English tutor, filled with spelling mistakes, based on Evelyn Hope, a poem by Robert Browning about a young girl: “When she died she was only sixteen years old,” Anastasia wrote. “Ther(e) was a man who loved her without having seen her but (k)new her very well. And she he(a)rd of him also. He never could tell her that he loved her, and now she was dead. But still he thought that when he and she will live [their] next life whenever it will be that …”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly67vvUEZ21r71ilwo1_500.jpg)
English workbook page which shows Anastasia’s famous Evelyn Hope summary.
At Tobolsk, Anastasia wrote a melancholy theme for her English tutor, filled with spelling mistakes, based on Evelyn Hope, a poem by Robert Browning about a young girl: “When she died she was only sixteen years old,” Anastasia wrote. “Ther(e) was a man who loved her without having seen her but (k)new her very well. And she he(a)rd of him also. He never could tell her that he loved her, and now she was dead. But still he thought that when he and she will live [their] next life whenever it will be that …”
