Tzarevitch

OTMA with their father in Tsarskeo Selo, Spring 1916

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.

Anton Chekhov

#Anton Chekhov #summer #winter #russian literature

Tzarevitch Alexei and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia

c1911

#romanovs #anastasia

Tzarevitch Alexei

c1912

Crimea

#romanovs #tzarevitch

view from one of the windowns of the Winter Palace on the 3rd floor.

#the hermitage museum #The Winter Palace #Palace Square #mine

100 years ago today

they were all murdered in cold blood

#romanovs

20 years old Anna Alexandrovna Vyrubova

c1904

the best friend and confidante of Alexandra Fyodorovna (the last Empress of Russia).

#The Romanovs #anna vyrubova #russian empire

Anton Chekhov with his sister Maria and brothers Ivan and Mikhail.

1892

#Russia #Anton Chekhov

Princess Alix of Hesse and her cousine Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, 1891/1892. {x}

This is a picture taken at the new exhibition in The Winter Palace.

The exhibition is called “The Winter Palace and the Hermitage in 1917. History was made here”.

Its so beautiful and sad.

#russian revolution #romanovs #russian empire #history #The Winter Palace