Mashka's Photographic Scrapbook

Photograph Album II - ca. 1910-1914

Here are pictures taken when I was a bit older, in no terribly rigid order. OTMAA had so much fun these years. If you want to see a larger version of a picture, please click on it!

With our cousin Me Out and about with my sisters With our Papa
1910: Alyosha and I push our young cousin Georg Donatus, in a toy car, while Nastya steers. This was taken at a big family get-together at Wolfsgarten, Mama's childhood home in Hesse. Here I am, all dressed up. A formal portrait from 1910. My sisters and I out walking. Mama took this picture of us with Papa. We're standing on Mama's balcony, near the door to the Maple Room. Don't you love our hemlines?
Studying Cart! Me, being a bit shy... Posing with an Urn!!
Me studying hard ca. 1910. I always liked learning, but I wasn't as diligent a student as my sister Olishka. Nastya mugs for Anya Virubova's camera while we take a ride in a cart. Me, poking around a corner. This urn made me seem very small indeed.
Formal With Olishka... Me with Nastas... NOTMAA
All of we children in 1910. Lounging with Olishka, who is trying to read whilst I sleep on her. We are with Anna Virubova and Mama, July 1910, at Padio Sari on the Baltic coast. I play with Nastas at The Skerries in 1911. This is a picture of all of we children with Papa on the Standart. 1911 (or 1912).
With Anastasia... Me with Olishka... Me Me!
On the Standart with Nastya... Olishka and I share a light moment with our wide-brimmed hats. We're peeping out a window onto the Deck of the Standart, while cruising the Baltic. 1912.. A closeup of me, posing in a family portrait in Mama's rooms at Livadia. It was 1912. Here I am on the Standart, on our way to The Skerries, ca. 1912.
Me with Nastya OTMA c. 1912 Nastya and I perform White Flower Day, 1912
Nastya and I are sitting in Papa's study aboard the Standart, in 1912. It doesn't look like a room you'd find on a boat, does it?. I love how Nastya looks in this picture! This was ca. 1912. We children all studied French with a Swiss tutor named Pierre Gilliard. Here, Nastya and I are performing in a production of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, in the autumn of 1912. Isn't my sister funny? Spring, 1912. With Olya and Nastya preparing for an official White Flower Day event in the Crimea, collection boxes at the ready! To our right were Lyosha and Tanya, but they're not in this version of the photograph.
OTMA with Papa... Riding! TEETH! Mushrooms
OTMA with Papa on the Standart. It's June, 1912. Our grandmother, the Dowager Empress, was with us that day. There's another version of this picture in which she's sitting next to Papa. Spring of 1912, riding with Tanya at Livadia. Tennis... and Teeth. Spring, 1912, Livadia. They look a lot better in the 1916 Mogilev shot with Mitya. He's in this particular shot, too, lying across Papa's and Uncle Ernie's legs. Here are all the girls picking mushrooms in Finland. This was a common place for us to visit when travelling on the Standart. Ca. 1913.
August, 1913, Krasnoe Selo Me with Olya In sweaters... Me surrounded by officers!
With my sisters, August, 1913, Krasnoe Selo. Here I am with my oldest sister, Olga. Olishka is very smart, and such a darling! You should read her poems sometime. In sweaters with Olishka and Tanya, on board the Standart. December, 1913, Sevastopol. Here I am with several officers (*SIGH*). We're at our pretty new palace at Livadia, in the Crimea, which was built in 1911.
Tennis... Anyone for tennis? Presentation! With Aunt Ella
I'm sure it was fascinating...1913. Here are Tanya, Lieutenant Rodionov (of the Standart; he was a tennis partner of Papa's, and Tanya's 'date' for Olga's sixteenth birthday party in 1911), Me, and Olya on the tennis courts at Livadia, in 1913. Olishka looks like she's had enough sport for one day, I think. Watching a presentation OTMA in Moscow with Aunt Ella, for the Romanov Tercentenary.
Sleighing OTMA and Mama Breaking the ice Punting the ice...
OTMA and Mama in a troika, or Russian sleigh. How cold that day was! 1913. My sisters and I posing formally with Mama in the Pallisander Room. Don't tell anyone, but Mama had it retouched to show her chin to its best advantage! Olya and I break ice with Papa on the grounds of the Alexander Palace. It's winter 1913-1914... ...and I'm brave!
With Tanya and Nastya      
Me with Tanya (her hair still hasn't grown out yet!) and Nastya (who looks grouchy because she's so short! In the Crimea.  1913 or 1914.