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In particular, the Grand Duchesses were scandalized at the thought of being made permanently subordinate to Catherine Dolgoruki, since as an Empress she would have precedence over all of them.

In 1910, Grigori Rasputin was accused of having been a Khlyst by Sofia Ivanovna Tyutcheva, a governess of the Grand Duchesses of Russia, after being horrified that Rasputin was allowed access by the Tsar to the nursery of the Grand Duchesses, when the four girls were in their nightgowns.

* List of Grand Duchesses of Russia

Soon after the Russian Revolution, on July 17, 1918, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra, and their children Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Tsarevich Alexei were murdered by the Bolsheviks at the Ipatiev House in this city.

Grand Duchesses Tatiana, Maria and Olga in a formal portrait taken in 1900 Grand Duchess Tatiana's siblings were Grand Duchesses Olga, Maria, Anastasia, and the hemophiliac Tsarevich Alexei of Russia.

< center > Grand Duchesses Tatiana, standing, Maria, and Anastasia play on a swing during a summer cruise in Finland in 1908.

Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana in court dress in a formal portrait taken in 1913 On 15 August 1915, Tatiana wrote her mother another letter expressing her desire to help her bear the burdens brought on by the war: " I simply can't tell you how awfully sorry I am for you, my beloved ones.

In January 1914, the Serbian prime minister Nikola Pasic delivered a letter to Tsar Nicholas in which King Peter expressed a desire for his son to marry one of the Grand Duchesses.

" The sailor Nagorny, who attended to Alexei Nikolaevitch, passed my window carrying the sick boy in his arms, behind him came the Grand Duchesses loaded with valises and small personal belongings.

Grand Duchesses Tatiana and Anastasia and the dog Ortino in captivity at Tsarskoe Selo in the spring of 1917 At Yekaterinburg, Tatiana occasionally joined her younger sisters in chatting with some of the guards over tea, asking them questions about their families and talking about her hopes for a new life in England when they were released.

Grand Duchesses Tatiana, left, and Olga Nikolaevna, far right, with their mother, Tsarina Alexandra, center, in captivity at Tobolsk in the spring of 1918

In March 2009 the final results of the DNA testing were published by Dr. Michael Coble of the US Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, proving conclusively that the remains of all four Grand Duchesses have now been accounted for, and no one escaped.

Margaretta Eagar, a governess to the four Grand Duchesses, said one person commented that the toddler Anastasia had the greatest personal charm of any child she had ever seen.

Grand Duchesses Maria and Anastasia Nikolaevna on an official visit to soldiers at their hospital in about 1914.

In his memoirs, A. A. Mordvinov reported that the four Grand Duchesses appeared " cold and visibly terribly upset " by Rasputin's death, and sat " huddled up closely together " on a sofa in one of their bedrooms on the night they received the news.

Pierre Gilliard recalled his last sight of the children at Yekaterinburg: " The sailor Nagorny, who attended to Alexei Nikolaevitch, passed my window carrying the sick boy in his arms, behind him came the Grand Duchesses loaded with valises and small personal belongings.

From left to right, Grand Duchess Anastasia, Grand Duchess Olga, Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarevich Alexei, Grand Duchess Tatiana, and Grand Duchess Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia ( 1899 – 1918 ) | Maria, and Kuban Cossacks

** Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia ( b. 1897 )

** Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia ( d. 1918 )

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia ( Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova ) ( In Russian Великая Княжна Татьяна Николаевна ), ( 29 May ( O. S.

Grand Duchess Tatiana in 1904

Tatiana's title is most precisely translated as " Grand Princess ," meaning that Tatiana, as an " imperial highness ", was higher in rank than other princesses in Europe, who were " royal highnesses.

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna in a formal portrait taken in 1906

" According to a 29 May 1897 diary entry written by her father's distant cousin, Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia, she was given the name " Tatiana " as an homage to the heroine in Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin.

Grand Duchess Tatiana in 1910 during the family's summer cruise aboard the Standart.

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna in about 1911.

She wrote in her diary on 15 March 1910 that she couldn't understand the family's regard for Rasputin as " almost a saint " when she viewed him as only a " khlyst " Tyutcheva told Grand Duchess Xenia that the starets visited when Olga and Tatiana were getting ready for bed and sat there talking with them and " caressing " them.

Grand Duchess Tatiana with her mother in about 1913.

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna in the uniform of her regiment, the Vosnesensky ( Ascension ) Hussars in 1912 As a young teenager, Tatiana was assigned a regiment of soldiers, the Vosnesensky ( Ascenscion ) Hussars and given the rank of honorary colonel.

" Olga laughed at it long and hard ," the indignant fourteen-year-old Tatiana wrote to her aunt Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia.

Long after the execution-style murders of the Russian Imperial Family, Mountbatten was called upon to authoritatively rebut impostors ' claims to be the living Grand Duchess Anastasia, who had been his first cousin.

* 1901 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia ( d. 1918 )

* 1860 – Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia ( d. 1922 )

The 1986 NBC-TV miniseries Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna, in which Olivia de Havilland portrays the Dowager Empress, represents the latter as considering a personal meeting with Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Anastasia.

However, recent research shows that all of the Romanovs, including Tsarevich Alexei and Grand Duchess Anastasia who had been thought to have escaped the Bolshevik attack, were killed.

** Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia ( b. 1901 )

* June 18 – Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia ( died 1918 )

* February 17 – A woman named Anna Anderson tries to commit suicide in Berlin and is taken to a mental hospital, where she claims she is Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia.

He also secured an alliance with the nascent Grand Duchy of Moscow by marrying his daughter, Anastasia, to the grand duke Simeon.

( See Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.

* In the 1950s, Anna Anderson claimed that she was Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.

She was a younger sister of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia and an elder sister of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, all of whom were falsely rumored to have survived the assassination of the Imperial Family.