In the fall of 1968 he attended folk dancing classes at the International House, and it was there he met Tatiana Tarasoff.

Tatiana was rumored to have been present at Rasputin's murder on 17 December 1916, " disguised as a lieutenant of the Chevaliers-Gardes, so that she could revenge herself on Rasputin who had tried to violate her.

Tatiana later kept a notebook in which she recorded Rasputin's sayings: " Love is Light and it has no end.

* 1755 – Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day.

Wevill also killed her child, Alexandra Tatiana Elise ( nicknamed Shura ), the four-year-old daughter of Hughes, born on 3 March 1965.

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.

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

" Alexandra wrote Nicholas on 13 March 1916 that Tatiana was the only one of their four daughters who " grasped it " when she explained her way of looking at things.

Tatiana, like all her family, doted on the long-awaited heir Tsarevich Alexei, or " Baby ," who suffered frequent attacks of haemophilia and nearly died several times.

can speak ... about our friend something bad ," the twelve-year-old Tatiana wrote to her mother on 8 March 1910.

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.

" Tatiana wrote Olga Alexandrovna on 14 July 1911.

According to Vyrubova, " Tatiana was almost as skillful and devoted as her mother, and complained only that on account of her youth she was spared some of the more trying cases.

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.

Tatiana once called Chebotareva at her home on the telephone and spoke first to her sixteen-year-old son.

Tatiana fell in love on at least one occasion.

" Forgive me about the little dog ," Tatiana wrote to her mother on 30 September 1914.

Chebotareva described how Tatiana sometimes sat beside " Volodia " at the piano as he played a tune with one finger and talked to her in a low voice, wearing a mysterious expression on his face.

The drastic change in circumstances and the uncertainty of captivity took its toll on Tatiana as well as on the rest of her family.

" She pines without work ," wrote her fellow nurse Valentina Chebotareva after receiving a letter from Tatiana on 16 April 1917.

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" If anyone wishes to write us, let them write directly ," Tatiana wrote to " my dear dove " Chebotareva on 9 December 1917, after expressing concern for fellow nurses and a patient they had once treated together.

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Tatiana was also fond of an officer named Vladimir Kiknadze, whom she cared for when he was wounded in 1915 and again in 1916, according to the diary of Valentina Ivanovna Chebotareva, a nurse who worked with Tatiana during the war.

Grand Duchess Tatiana in 1916 From left to right, Grand Duchess Olga, Tsar Nicholas II, Grand Duchess Anastasia, and Grand Duchess Tatiana at Tobolsk in the winter of 1917 – 1918.

" Other visitors, however, such as Felix Dassel, an officer whom Anastasia had visited in hospital during 1916, and Gleb Botkin, who had known Anastasia as a child and was Tatiana Melnik's brother, were convinced that Tschaikovsky was genuine.

Tatiana and her siblings were also taught to view Rasputin as " Our Friend " and to share confidences with him.

" Eleven-year-old Tatiana wrote a letter asking Rasputin to visit her and telling him how hard it was to see her mother ill. " But you know because you know everything ," she wrote.

" It was also rumored that Rasputin was castrated in front of Tatiana, wrote Maurice Paléologue, the French ambassador to Russia, in his memoirs.

Tatiana was described as tall and slender, with dark auburn hair and dark blue-gray eyes, fine, chiseled features, and a refined, elegant bearing befitting the daughter of an Emperor.

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.

Like the other Romanov children, Tatiana was raised with some austerity.

According to one story, Tatiana, accustomed to being addressed only by her name and patronymic, was so disconcerted when she was addressed as " Your Imperial Highness " by lady-in-waiting Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden when she was heading a committee meeting that she kicked the woman under the table and hissed " Are you crazy to speak to me like that?

" 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.

When she began to recover, Tatiana was permitted to see her older sister for five minutes but didn't recognize her.

When her governess, Margaretta Eagar, told her after the visit that the sickly child she had been conversing so gently with was Olga, four-year-old Tatiana began to cry bitterly and protested that the pale, thin child couldn't be her adored older sister.

Tatiana was practical and had a natural talent for leadership.

Though she was eighteen months Tatiana's senior, Olga had no objection when Tatiana decided to take charge of a situation.

Tatiana was the conduit of all her mother's decisions.

" It was not that her sisters loved their mother any less ," recalled her French tutor Pierre Gilliard, " but Tatiana knew how to surround her with unwearying attentions and never gave way to her own capricious impulses.

Gilliard wrote that Tatiana was reserved and " well balanced " but less open and spontaneous than Olga.

Tatiana and her three sisters, like their mother, were all potential carriers of the hemophilia gene ; the Tsarina was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, from whom the trait was inherited.

Young Tatiana was aware of the tension in the nursery and afraid of her mother's reaction to Tyutcheva's actions.

Tatiana, like her mother, was deeply religious and read her Bible frequently.