THE TSAREVITCH IN 1910.
Taken with His Cousins, Children of the Empress's brother, Grand Duke Ernest of Hess.
Marie and Anastasie were also blonde types and very attractive girls. Marie had splendid eyes and rose-red cheeks. She was inclined to be stout and she had rather thick lips which detracted a little from her beauty. Marie had a naturally sweet disposition and a very good mind. All three of these girls were more or less of the tomboy type. They had something of the innate brusqueness of their Romanoff ancestors, which displayed itself in a tendency to mischief. Anastasie, a sharp and clever child, was a very monkey for jokes, some of them at times almost too practical for the enjoyment of others. I remember once when the family was in their Polish estate in winter the children were amusing themselves at snowballing. The imp which sometimes seemed to possess Anastasie led her to throw a stone rolled in a snowball straight
THE EMPEROR AND TSAREVITCH WALKING ON BOARD THE STANDERT. Photograph by the Empress.
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THE TSAREVITCH IN COSSACK UNIFORM WITH HIS SAILOR, DEREVANKO. |
THE TSAR, TSARINA, AND ALEXEI IN THE GARDENS OF TSARSKOE SELO, 1911. |