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To commemorate the Romanov family, we partnered with the Russian State Archive to create #Romanovs100, an online educational narrative that mixes the visual language of photography with the digital reality of social media. The core of #Romanovs100 is the thousands of private photographs held in Romanov family albums. These are more than just snaps.
Aug 19, 2020 · Six of the *seven personal photo albums of Anna Vyrubova are today kept at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The albums contain about three thousand (!) photographs of the everyday life of Emperor Nicholas II and his family. [*Anna presented Album No. 1 to Queen Louise, who bequeathed it to Prince Ludwig.
- Life Before Abdication and Exile
- Damage to Their Official Residence
- In Exile
The House of Romanov was the reigning imperial house of Russia from 1613 to 1917. Tsar Nicholas II was the last Romanov ruler of Russia. He ruled from 1894 to his forced abdication in March 1917. In 1894, Tsar Nicholas II married Princess Alix of Hesse, who took the name Alexandra Feodorovna. Together, Nicholas and Alexandra had five children. Thei...
By early 1917, the Russian people had grown to distrust Tsar Nicholas II. During the February Revolution of 1917, the monarchy was overthrown and replaced by a Provisional Government led by Prince Georgy Lvov. After his abdication, Nicholas and his family were first held under house arrest at Alexander Palace, located near the town of Tsarskoye Sel...
The Romanovs remained in Tobolsk, Siberia, from August 1917 to May 1918. While in Tobolsk, the family lived in the Kuklin House (Governor’s Mansion) in considerable comfort. In May 1918, the family was moved to the city of Yekaterinburg, where they were kept in the Ipatiev House. Here, they were under close watch. The family could only speak Russia...
Explore the family pictures of the Romanovs as they themselves pasted them in their personal albums. All the collections are from GARF, the Russian State Archives.
Jul 17, 2018 · Edmund Heaphy. Published July 17, 2018. Russia’s last tsar, his wife, and their five children were murdered amid the tumult of the Bolshevik revolution 100 years ago today (July 17). The ...
Anna Virubova, a close confidant of the Romanov royal family, assembled photo albums of the summers spent with Romanovs that reflect this serene, idealized world. As one of the leading royal families of Europe, the Romanovs were followed widely by their subjects and the rest of Europe, partly with the help of photography.
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The six Romanov Family Albums held at the Beinecke Library represent a unique survival from the last years of Russian Imperial dynasty. Taken between 1907 and 1915, the hundreds of pictures contained in these albums date from the first flowering of popular photography, when new breakthroughs in technology put cameras into the hands of amateurs, who were able to capture impromptu moments of ...
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