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Published: 2007-04-08 14:46:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 1921; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 2
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The fourth and final addition to the OTMA 1910 Formal Pictures. I would once more like to dedicate this drawing to my friend Holly Daugherty! And of course in memory of OTMA.This is a drawing of Grand Duchess Marie Nicholaievna Romanov. Marie, or affectionately called "Mashka" was considered the sweetest and most angelic daughter of the Tsar. Her big, blue eyes even earned them the name "Marie's Saucers". She was loving and liked to learn all about the lives of the palace guards. Her own private dream was to one day marry a Russian soldier and have 20 children!
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Maria! *hugs pic* She is my favorite! 
I love this.
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Definitely the kindest and gentlest of them all 
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I wonder if she was the sort of "referee' when it came to her other sisters, you know, when they argued? 
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Oh I could definitely see it! There would have had to have been at least one with Anastasia driving everyone wild
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Lol, either her or Tatiana, I'll bet. 
I can see her now: "oh brother!"
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My very favourite of the Marie poses. Very well drawn, too - wonderful work.
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You're too kind!
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Sure is. Every time I visit your page I always find something I really like. I imagine I'll eventually wind up fav'ing all your work.
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Well I must say I wouldn't mind that one bit
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Thats SO kind of you to say!! Comments like yours really put a smile on my face, and I thank you for that!
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Bonjour misuer...er..I think..not good with meh french, but good with meh Russian..
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Thanks!! Lol, yeah most people don't realize I'm a guy till they look at my stats. And don't sweat it with the French, its only our second language and most people don't really speak it.....except the French-Canadians....such lovely people too o_o
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O_o my friend said Canadians steal cookies ever since she had a bad experience...
she was visiting in Canada with her family and she was eating some cookies, and some guy randomly snatched them out of her hands and ran off. and she said that they are gross for eating snails..
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Oh.....I don't know anyone in particular who likes cookies enough to steal them o_o. Anyways we don't eat snails either......thats best left to French people. You know that Canada is almost completely English.......right? lol Only one of our Provinces is completely French speaking.....and I try to avoid it.....they're such accomplished drivers there. lol
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Marie was the most beautiful of all the daughter's....such a beautful little princess. Or Duchess, rather, I know they believed Duchess was higher than a Princess
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I believe so too! She was so innocent and sweet, I curse the Bolsheviks. And you're quite right, as daughters of the Tsar they were given the title Grand Duchess, which did mean they had higher positions than a mere Princess.
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Aren't they terribly fascinating?! Marie was so sweet and innocent and very much a Duchess and she was very boy crazy
By the way, my boyfriend Roman is from Russia and I think we might travel to Ykaterinburg where they were murdered and visit some places. He is from a town not too far from there and then I think we will take a train to St Petersburg, then Moscow and then fly home.
I can't believe how far more interesting Russian history is! I am so glad I've come across some one like you who shares a similar passion!
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Yes I agree with you about the Bolsheviks, they're intentions were admirable but the way they carried it out was intolerable. Honestly I don't see why they couldn't have let them live in exile somewhere instead of believing they would be liquidated and made to retaliate against the Soviets to regain control of the country. But anyways I'm ranting, Marie really was the sweetest! And yes, N&A's method of raising there children was good in the way it allowed them to build up morals and learn to act independently. It might of been better though for OTMAA to have socialized a bit more, but thats my general opinion.
You might go to Yekaterinburg??!!! Oh if only I had the ability to do so. You must visit the Church on the Blood, and the little church in the Koptyaki Forest! And don't forget to see the spot in the Pig's Meadow where the bones were found! Oh well, do what you can, lol. If you go to St. Petersburg will you go to Tsarskoe Selo? You are a lucky one. Oh and you can find other people here who love The Romanovs just as much as we do! Alot of them comment on my pictures. I say have you been to Alexander Palace Time Machine? If you haven't you should!
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Yes, the children should have socialed more...they seemed a bit cut off from others.
Yes, I have been casually planning a trip to Yekaterinburg simply because I am very interested in the Romanov's and because it is close to the town my boyfriend is from and we can visit there too. I will make a note to visit all those places you mentioned, thank you so much! I can't believe they tore down the Ipatiev House in 1977....what fools they were to do such a thing on such sacred ground! If it were still there I would visit it as well.
And I really want to go to St Petersburg to see Tsarskoe Selo, I fell in love with the city after reading a novel by Russian-American author Paullina Simons entitled The Bronze Horseman and the subsequent novel entitled Tatiana and Alexander. You should read them....they are about the siege of Leningrad during WWII....my boyfriend's grandmother survived the siege when she was only 5 years old. The books are breathtakingly beautiful!
No, I've never been been to Alexander Palace Time Machine....sounds fascinating! I should make it a point to go!
It is very nice meeting others with a similar and very specific interest in the Romanov's. I thought I should do a piece on one of the Duchess' some soon....probably Marie since I truely adore her the most. But who doesn't love the devious yet good hearted nature of Anastasia?! My boyfriend tells me in Russian that Anastasia's name is pronounced "Ana-stass-ee-ah" (emphasis on the "ee" sound) and I think it sounds so pretty that way!
I know many people think Anastasia might have survived since they never definiately found her bones...or Alexei's for that matter. But, I haven't really decided what I think. I mean, it was not like she was a small child when the murders happened, I believe she was 17. So, most people think they might have taken particular pity on her because she was just a girl. I do not think she would have been spared but there is always a chance, even though had she survived the massacre then, she wouldn't likely be alive today.
Even though they did not find Alexei's bones I am sure they would have made sure to kill him, especially as an heir, albeit a sick one at that. That poor family......why they kept them in exile so long and then one day decided to kill them...as if they were any more a threat then than they were before. No, by then they were much less a threat to the Bolsheviks. I get a headache trying to rationalize their behavior because it is simply inconceivable to me, what they did.
I'm rambling!
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The Ipatiev House was torn down because so many tourists were visiting it and causing problems; including people still loyal to the Tsar and obviously that kind of loyalty would be a hazard to the new government. Tearing it down would of be a shame to history but it wouldn't make any difference to the 'sacredness' of the site. There is now a beautiful church built on the site and you can still view the wall of the cellar which the Romanovs stood against during the murders. If you know the Romanovs you'd know that they hated the house anyways and building a cathedral on place they died would've been what they wanted.
They didn't just 'decide to kill them one day', they kept them under imprisonment for so long because they wanted them out of the way. They were *always* a threat to the revolution. Anyone with Romanov blood was a threat. That's why they killed all of them. The threat by them being alive was never lessened, especially in 1918. The reason they killed them was because the White Army was coming nearer and nearer; therefore they were becoming more of a threat. They had been looking for a reason to kill them for a long time, they even went as far as writing them fake rescue notes and having them respond so that they could've used the excuse that they were planning to escape, for murderering them.
You can be 99.9% sure none of them survived that night. *None* of them would've felt sympathy for even the children. The only ones who felt even a bit of pity were taken away that day and replaced by other men who would've loved nothing but to be able to claim that they shot the first bullet into the Tsar. Just because they can't find the remains of Anastasia and Alexei in no way means that they survived. As the executioners have said many times, they destroyed two of them as well as they could and buried them somewhere else. If you take a look at the condition of the bodies found, you will see that the amount of damage done to them is sickening and anyone in the hands of those men that night had no chance at all. The men all say Anastasia fought until the very end but a little seventeen year old girl wouldn't be able to fight her way out of small room with bullets flying around and 12 drunk men with bayonets. Even harder for a fourteen year old boy with haemophilia and can't even walk...
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Young lady this is a private conversation, we are conversing privately, hitherto your presence is unnecessary. I would demand you refrain most ardently from such abhorrent insinuation's upon exceedingly hapless cohorts of mine.
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Yes it truly is a pity the Ipatiev House was demolished, and somewhat strange the man in charge became the new President after the fall of Soviet Russia.
I'm going to go order those books you mentioned from my library, they sound terribly good! And your boyfriend's grandmother was in THE siege of Leningrad??? My thats an experience to be sure, even for a 5 year old.
Here my dear friend, this is The Alexander Time Machine: [link] It has so much information about the Romanovs!! And if you join the forums there you'll have hundreds of people there to talk to about them! Not to mention all the pictures and interesting finds people post. I'm NAOTMAA Fan on their should you join.
I should love to see anything you do on the Grand Duchesses!!
I find that there aren't really that many people who assume Anastasia or Marie escaped with Alexei. The possibility and chances of their liquidation from the cellar room are unfeesable and impossible. Alexei could not have survived the extreme violence that took place during the execution and it is noted by Yurovsky that he burned two of the bodies and had them buried separately. And I would find myself hard pressed to believe that anyone of the guards should take pity on Anastasia alone and not any of her sisters. And yes, Anastasia was 17 at the time of her death.
Now you mustn't think the Bolsheviks suddenly decided to just go and shoot them all, this was something debated upon and argued about months prior to the actual killings. The White Czechs presence in the Urals more or less gave ultimate concern to Lenin and he therefore had them executed so as there could be no "banner" for them to fly around.
I to am rambling so I should stop.
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I have not read a GREAT deal about her, but I've been interested in the Romanov's since I was a child and have read on and off about their lives, and from what I've read, Marie sounds as though she was an absolute darling.
And also, I just wanted to say I really admire the way you can copy these photos. My brother has that ability, too, he'll sit down and copy a drawing. No matter how hard I try I can never seem to get things to stay where they were in the original, or look the way they are supposed to (one reason I have trouble doing portraits.) But you have an uncanny ability to reproduce, and (at least seeminly) so easilly, too.
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Marie was an absolute dear! She was the sweetest of her sisters. And thank you for saying so!!!!!! I love the challenge, and I do find it relatively easy, but it just takes FOREVER.
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You can hear a recording of Nicholas. OTMAA were recorded many times as children for Empress Maria as Pencil-Chan said but they haven't been found yet. Olga sang in mezzo-soprano, Tatiana had a very deep voice not a soprano, no one has said anything of Maria's voice but it was probably similar to Olga's, and also no one as said anything about the tone of Anastasia's voice. In the Anna Anderson book written by Peter Kurth an officer remembered that "Anastasia had a rapid walk and a laugh like a squirrel".
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Where is this recording of Nicholas? If I can't hear OTMAA, then I might as well hear at least one Romanov.
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You really are tooo kind!!!!!!!!!!
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No not too kind ......... you are really good ... and I mean it
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Aww thank you soooo very much!!!!!!!!!!
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Sorry, what I typed before was a type-o. What I meant to put was:
It's awesome! Your gallery is so cool. Keep up the good work. And I wouldn't call it an obsession. It's just... a source of inspiration! The Romanov's I mean.
Sorry for the confusion...
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Ahahahahaha!! Yes.............a source of inspiration............I like that. Thank you very much though!!
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Your welcome..we all have our muses....mine is the lamp in the corner of this room....
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Oh really? Well that certainly is a rather inspirational muse, it must give you alot of "bright" ideas. AHA. Yes, I am lame.......
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Yeah, no, it's pretty funny...I mean, I have some friends who wouldn't get that joke, and would be trying to figure it out for like 4 hours, then finally get it...and laugh their butts off. It's good. Really...
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Lol, your to kind. I had another one....but I stopped myself..
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Well, I am interested in what you had...
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Oh you mean my joke I had in mind? Well it didn't make much sense, it was kind of akward. Anyway's, I'm def highly anticipating the next Libba Bray book!!! GOD I CAN'T WAIT!!!
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It's awesome! Your gallery is so cool. Keep up the good work. And I would call it an obsession. It's just... a source of inspiration!
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OOOOOOH MY GAAAAAAAHHHHH..
HOW DO YOU DO THAT!?!??
LOVELOVELOVELOVELOVELOVELOVE.
Simply amazingly astonishing beautiful wonderfullness!!!!! I love all of these portraits they're just fantastic and they all look just like the real picture!! I guess I'll just have to admire your hands and not cut them off, sew them onto my arms, and wear them as my own.
And thanks a lot for the dedication! It makes me feel special just like my mommy says I am.
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Thank you SOOOOO very much for that simply amazingly astonishing beautiful wonderfullness comment. It's always appreciated. OMG, one of my friends wanted to cut off another of their friends hands to!! Small world............... I'll send you a scan of them so you can hang them on your wall and stroke them when your alone at night...........you know you want to. Where have you been you crazy little hand fetishizer?
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Gotta love Maria.
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