Photographer of the Romanov royal family Podgursky. New color photographs of the royal family
Rare photographs of the last king were found in the manuscript library of Yale University Russian Empire Nicholas 2nd, which were taken from Russia. Absolutely not royal photographs, let's face it, are more like staged ones.There are forces that benefit from considering Nicholas II killed in order to lay claim to the Russian throne.
Tsar Nicholas II on the rocky coast of Finland. Photo: Manuscript Library, Yale University
After Tsar Nicholas II and his family were shot by the Bolshevik revolutionaries, the collection personal photos royal family was smuggled out of Russia.
The photographs were found in the Yale University library. We offer a glimpse into the life of the royal family, which ended so tragically.
After early death his father, Nicholas II admitted to a friend: “I am not yet ready to be a king. I don't know anything about the board."
The young heir suffered from hemophilia, a genetic disorder that prevents blood from clotting.
Anna Vyrubova (right) on the beach with princesses Tatiana and Olga. Photo: Manuscript Library, Yale University
After royal family shot, Anna, a close friend of the family, managed to escape from Soviet Russia with 6 albums of family photographs.
Empress Alexandra (left) with Anna Vyrubova and Olga. Photo: Manuscript Library, Yale University
After the revolution, Anna was arrested, but she managed to escape to Finland with albums that contain more than 2,600 photographs of the Romanovs' private life. Vyrubova died in Helsinki in 1964.
Empress Alexandra is welcomed aboard Standart, the imperial yacht. Her little daughters are in the background. Photo: Manuscript Library, Yale University
Two Grand Duchesses on board Standard. Photo: Manuscript Library, Yale University
When the children were small, a sailor looked after each one so that they did not fall overboard.
Nicholas II and his daughters in Crimea. Photo: Manuscript Library, Yale University
Pedestrian bridge in Spala, Poland. Photo: Manuscript Library, Yale University
When the Siberian mystic Rasputin helped the prince recover from internal bleeding due to a bruised hip, he became a close friend and confidant royal family.
Empress Alexandra and her daughter, Grand Duchess Tatiana. Photo: Manuscript Library, Yale University
They were said to be especially close.
Tsar Nicholas II (left) welcomes King Gustav of Sweden aboard Standart. Photo: Manuscript Library, Yale University
The boy was 13 years old when he and his family were shot.
Tsarevich Alexei, third from left, playing soldier. Photo: Manuscript Library, Yale University
Gilliard, the family's French mentor, with his students Olga and Tatiana Romanov. Photo: Manuscript Library, Yale University
After the murder of his family, he helped in the investigation, and then fled Russia. U measures in Switzerland in 1962.
On board Standard, the sailors took turns bouncing on the mats. Photo: Manuscript Library, Yale University
Tatiana was described as "a poetic girl, always striving for the ideal and dreaming of great friendship."
Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria aboard Standart in 1914. Photo: Manuscript Library, Yale University
The sisters were 22, 21 and 19 years old when they were killed.
Empress Alexandra with her likeness in clay. Photo: Manuscript Library, Yale University
Olga Romanova in a wicker chair on board Standart. Photo: Manuscript Library, Yale University
Villagers in the photo during the trip of the king and his family. Photo: Manuscript Library, Yale University
Anastasia, the youngest of the grand duchesses, was photographed after a round of tennis with the officer and her father, Nicholas II. Photo: Manuscript Library, Yale University
For several months after the 1917 revolution, Grand Duchess Tatiana helps dig a vegetable garden while being captured by the revolutionaries. Photo: Manuscript Library, Yale
Tsar Nicholas II and his son Alexei sawing wood while in captivity. Photo: Manuscript Library, Yale University
Nicholas 2 and the three Grand Duchesses are sailing on a boat along a canal in Tserskoye Selo, near St. Petersburg.
A few months after the 1917 Revolution, Grand Duchess Tatiana helps plant vegetables in her garden while she is being held captive by the Bolsheviks.
Tsar Nicholas 2 and his son Alexei in captivity (by the Bolsheviks) are sawing wood.
(A little boy with hemophilia, at any moment, will cut himself)
They were killed a few months later.
In the diary of one of the senior Soviet leaders it was written that Vladimir Lenin decided to kill the Romanov family and thereby not leave the anti-Bolshevik forces as a living emblem, especially in such difficult circumstances.
With the advent of new technologies on history big country and a single event or person can be looked at from a different perspective. Specialist restorers do a tremendous amount of work every day to turn historical photographs from black-and-white and faded to color and high-quality.
Today we will look at new restored photographs of the royal family. Many of them are unique because most of photographs of the imperial family are still stored in photo archives in England and the United States, and there are practically no such photographs in the public domain.
Emperor Nicholas II and Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich
Nikolai Nikolaevich Jr. devoted his entire life to military service. On the eve of the First World War, Nicholas was appointed Supreme Commander-in-Chief of all land and naval forces.
All his life, awards and ranks rained down on the prince as if from a cornucopia. Nikolai Nikolaevich - received the nickname “Evil” in the army for excessive ambition and thirst for power.
Nicholas II on the station platform, to the right of the emperor - Colonel A.A. Mordvinov, January 30, 1916.
Still Tsarevich Nicholas, still Princess Alix, April 1894
Tsar Nicholas with his four daughters: Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia
The Emperor with his son and army officers in 1915.
Alexey and Nikolay – Livadia Palace
Nicholas II with his daughter Tatyana and sister Olga Alexandrovna, as well as an officer on the deck of the yacht “Standart”
Tsar Nicholas and his family
Alexander III family photo, 1889.
From left to right: Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; Tsar Nicholas II; Ernst Ludwig; Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, Coburg, 1897
Emperor Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna during a visit to Great Britain with King Edward VII and the future King George V. 1909 Barton Manor
Imperial family in Crimea.
Nikolai and Admiral Sablin talking with Alexandra on board the imperial yacht Standart, 1912
Alexey with his parents at Headquarters
Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Alexey.
Family. Grand Duke Ernie, Tsarina Alexandra with Tsar Nicholas II, Princess Irene and Henry of Prussia, Princess Elizabeth and Grand Duke Sergei, Princess Victoria and Prince Louis of Battenberg.
Alix and children
One of the last and most famous family portraits of the imperial family, 1913
The Imperial Family of Russia on board the Polar Star, 1905. Looks like it was a windy day!
The Grand Duchesses of Russia with their English aunt Victoria.
Tsar Nicholas II with his second daughter in Germany
“Komsomolskaya Pravda” for the first time publishes rare photographs of the emperor from his personal album, which spent almost a century in the storage rooms of the Ural Museum [KP exclusive]
Change text size: A A
To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty, a real relic was brought to Yekaterinburg - a photo album that belonged to Nicholas II. It contains 210 rare pictures royal family, most of them have never been published before. Almost all the photos were taken by Nikolai Alexandrovich or his children.
The emperor was very fond of photography and got his wife Alexandra Fedorovna and children addicted to it,” historian and employee of the Patriarchal Compound Museum Milena Bratukhina tells KP. - There was even a photo workshop in one of the park pavilions in Tsarskoe Selo. Nikolai Alexandrovich shot mainly with American cameras, and the Empress ordered photographic equipment from Great Britain.
The photographs are dated 1913-1916. The album contains many shots of army life. Then came the first World War, and the king, together with his heir Alexei, often visited the troops. But main value This album contains cards of the daily life of the royal family. Among the pictures there is even a photo with an elephant. It turns out that the first zoo in Tsarskoye Selo Park in St. Petersburg appeared under Nicholas I. It closed in 1917. The children of Nicholas II often came to the Tsarskoye Selo elephant sanctuary with their parents. The Emperor wrote about this in his diary: “He and Alexei brought an elephant to our pond and had fun bathing it.”
The album has been in the Zlatoust Local History Museum since the 30s of the last century. Long years it was carefully kept in storage rooms, and only a few knew about its existence. When the “royal” theme came out of the ban, the album was presented to the general public. But you can’t just watch it - only a few people can touch the album. Once a day they turn only one page and immediately put it under glass: museum staff fear for the safety of the photographs.
How the album ended up in Zlatoust is a mystery, says Nadezhda Prikhodko, director of the museum in Zlatoust. - Everyone knows that last days The royal family spent their lives in Yekaterinburg, which is 300 kilometers from our city. There is a version that the director of the Museum of the Revolution, Comrade Chevardin, brought the relic from Yekaterinburg. The museum was located in the house of engineer Ipatiev, and it was there that the august persons lived before their death. In 1933, Chevardin was transferred to Zlatoust, and he may have brought the album with him to save it from destruction. According to the second version, the photograph was transported by a revolutionary nicknamed Kasyan, also known as Dmitry Mikhailovich Chudinov, one of those who escorted the royal family from Tobolsk to Yekaterinburg. He lived in Zlatoust. And after the terrible reprisal against the Romanovs, he appropriated some of their belongings, and it is possible that this album, too.
“KP” thanks the Chrysostom Local Lore Museum and the Yekaterinburg Diocese for the photos provided.
1914 The royal family traditionally went on a summer trip to the Black Sea on the yacht “Standart”. But the photographs: Grand Duchesses Tatiana, Maria Olga, (from left to right) and Anastasia (in the center). The girls have been accustomed to this yacht since childhood. When they grew up, their parents allowed them to bathe on their own. The Grand Duchesses loved to fool around on deck and communicate with officers and courtiers.
1914 Peterhof. The Emperor poses on the shore. Most likely, this photo was taken by one of his children.
1916 Nicholas II and his youngest daughter Anastasia are relaxing in the city garden of Mogilev (during the First World War there was the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief). Grand Duchess 15 years. And don’t let this shot shock you - at that time smoking was not something immoral. In 1915, Anastasia, when the Tsar was at Headquarters and she was in St. Petersburg, wrote to her father: “I’m sitting with your old cigarette that you once gave me, and it’s very tasty.” Of course, the Grand Duchesses did not smoke in public. And this photo is more of a joke.
1916 Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich in one of the parks in Tsarskoe Selo. In the hands of the heir to the throne is his beloved black spaniel Joy (translated from English as “joy”). The dog was with Alexei until the end of his days. The boy took him with him into exile. The dog outlived its owner - after his death, the spaniel was sent to London to Buckingham Palace. Please note: the shadow of the author of the photo, the king, is visible in the photo.
1916 The Emperor plays with his son on the banks of the Dnieper. The two of them arrived in Mogilev on October 1, 1915. The Tsar believed that this trip would benefit the future heir to the throne - instead of ordinary classes with a teacher within four walls, Alexey could see the life of ordinary boys.
1914 Tsarskoye Selo. The Tsarevich and his teacher's children are playing war. Alexey spent his entire childhood with them. The boys played together, drew, made snowmen and went canoeing.
1914 Tsarskoye Selo. Nicholas II and his son ride a boat in a local pond. The Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana and Maria are waiting for them on the shore. Nicholas II devoted a lot of time to his children, especially his only heir.
Despite the fact that the royal family in Russia was an example to follow, many rulers hid terrible secrets from the people. Every king and queen had sins behind them, which admirers of the royal family try not to talk about. About these terrible secrets This post will tell us.
Mikhail Fedorovich (from 1613 to 1645)
The first of the Romanovs was crowned king at the age of 16, and at that time he could barely read. The next year, by his decree, the three-year-old son of Marina Mnishek, allegedly the grandson and heir of Ivan the Terrible, to whom several cities had managed to swear allegiance, was hanged in Moscow. This was after the severe Troubles, and fear of new possible impostors forced the elimination of the competitor publicly.
Alexey Mikhailovich (1645-1676)
The father of the future Emperor Peter the Great was a religious maniac, sometimes he prayed for six hours in a row and dealt with those who missed church services: without asking the reasons, he ordered them to be thrown into an icy river.
Peter I (1682-1725)
History describes many terrible scenes when Peter showed himself to be violent, inhumanly cruel and inadequate to the point of madness. Here are just some facts. Streltsy executions. 26-year-old Peter personally chopped off heads in front of a huge crowd and forced each of his retinue to take up the ax (unless the foreigners refused, justifying themselves by saying that they were afraid of incurring the hatred of the Russians). The mass executions actually turned into a grandiose show: the crowd was poured free vodka and they roared with delight, expressing devotion and love to the dashing sovereign. In a drunken stupor, the king immediately invited everyone to be an executioner, and many agreed.
Lifetime portrait of 44-year-old Peter, artist Antoine Pen:
“The Morning of the Streltsy Execution”, Vasily Surikov:
Death of Tsarevich Alexei. In acute conflict with his eldest son, Peter forced him to abdicate the throne and began to zealously investigate his misdeeds, for which he specially created the Secret Chancellery. 28-year-old Alexei was sentenced to death for treason and, after the verdict, was tortured in prison: in the presence of his father, he received 25 lashes. According to some reports, this is why he died. And Peter the next day noisily feasted, with an orchestra and fireworks, on the occasion of the anniversary of the Battle of Poltava.
“Peter I interrogates Tsarevich Alexei in Peterhof”, Nikolai Ge:
“Maria Hamilton before execution”, Pavel Svedomsky:
Execution of a mistress. The very next year, Peter sent his ex-lover, one of the most beautiful ladies-in-waiting at court, Maria Hamilton (Gamontova), having learned that she twice caused miscarriages and strangled the third baby. Although at that time she was already living with someone else, the king, apparently, suspected that the children could be from him, and was furious at such “murder.” At the execution, he behaved strangely: he picked up Mary’s severed head, kissed it and calmly began to lecture the people on anatomy, showing the organs affected by the ax, after which he kissed the dead lips again, threw the head in the mud and left.
Anna Ioannovna (1730-1740)
The niece of Peter I, like himself, was a great hunter of entertainment with the participation of dwarfs and “fools” - court jesters. If many of them were indeed distinguished by their wit, then the inventions of the empress herself, which brought her into wild merriment, were rather obscene. Once, for example, one of her favorites, the Italian violinist Pietro Miro, nicknamed Pedrillo (Petrillo, Parsley), laughed off an attempt to make fun of his ugly wife, saying that his “goat” was pregnant and would soon bear “kids.” Anna Ioannovna immediately came up with the idea of putting him into bed with a real goat, dressed for laughs in a peignoir, and forcing the whole courtyard to bring them gifts. Pedrillo, who pleased his mistress, became richer by several thousand rubles on that day alone. “Jesters at the Court of Empress Anna Ioannovna”, Valery Jacobi (Pedrillo on the left, depicted with a violin; in the center of the picture in a yellow caftan the famous jester Balakirev jumps above everyone else):
The Empress generally adored all kinds of obscenity, especially gossip and stories of a pornographic nature. Knowing this, specially selected girls were sent to the court who were capable of conducting such conversations and inventing more and more new stories with juicy details.
Elizaveta Petrovna (1741-1762)
The daughter of Peter I was known as a beauty from childhood and did nothing but have fun and take care of her own appearance, remaining almost uneducated. She had never read and even as an adult did not know that Great Britain was an island. Most of all, Elizabeth was interested in masquerades and especially the so-called “metamorphoses,” where all the ladies had to appear in men's attire, and the men in women's attire. Moreover, the empress was convinced that her court rivals had ugly legs and that in men's leggings everyone except her was making a mockery of themselves. One of the successful rivals, state lady Natalya Lopukhina, who was considered a beauty, was “mercifully” saved by Elizabeth death penalty, ordering instead to flog him with a whip, tear out his tongue and exile him to Siberia. Officially, Lopukhina was arrested and tortured in the case of a political conspiracy, but unofficially it was the empress’s revenge for the repulsed gentlemen and ridicule in her youth.
Natalya Fedorovna Lopukhina, engraving by Lavrenty Seryakov:
Finally, Elizabeth doomed the legitimate heir to the throne, appointed before her death by Anna Ioannovna, to a terrible existence. Emperor Ivan VI was only a year and a half old when Peter's daughter staged a coup and secretly ordered him to be thrown into prison, forever separating him from his parents and protecting him from human contact. The “famous prisoner,” as he was called after the strictest ban on mentioning his name, was stabbed to death by guards at the age of 23, already under Catherine II.
Catherine II (1762-1796)
33-year-old Catherine overthrew and arrested her own husband and second cousin Peter III, a relationship with whom had not worked out from the very beginning. They got married when she was 16 and he was 17 years old. According to one version, he was infantile almost to the point of dementia and avoided marital duty for 9 years, allegedly not knowing what to do in bed with a woman. According to another version (and Catherine admitted this in her biographical notes), he did not love her and made no attempts to get closer. At the same time, he openly took mistresses and even planned to marry one, but died under unclear circumstances 10 days after his deposition.
Coronation portrait of Emperor Peter III, Lukas Conrad Pfanzelt:
Meanwhile, the unhappy marriage made Catherine herself the greatest mistress on the Russian throne. She gave birth to her first child, the future Emperor Paul I, only in the 10th year after the wedding, which gave rise to rumors that he was not from Peter, although he looked like him. The empress had two more children from different lovers, and she gave birth to one in complete secrecy from her husband - in order to distract the emperor and take him away from the palace, her faithful valet started a fire in own home.
Modern painting “The Triumph of Catherine”, Vasily Nesterenko (after right hand from the Empress her famous favorite Prince Grigory Potemkin)
The “depraved empress” took her last favorite at the age of 60: he became the 21-year-old nobleman Platon Zubov, whom she enriched unspeakably and who, five years after her death, participated in the murder of her son Paul I.
Platon Aleksandrovich Zubov, artist Ivan Eggink:
Alexander I (1801-1825)
Catherine's 23-year-old grandson came to power as a result of a conspiracy against his own father: he was convinced that if Paul was not overthrown, he would destroy the empire. At the same time, Alexander did not allow murder, but the perpetrators - officers inflamed with champagne - decided otherwise: in the middle of the night they struck the emperor with a powerful blow to the temple with a golden snuffbox and strangled him with a scarf. Alexander, having learned about the death of his father, burst into tears, and then one of the main conspirators said in French: “Stop being childish, go reign!”
Alexander II (1855-1881)
Having ascended the throne, Alexander, who had previously lived in a happy marriage with many children, began to have favorites, with whom, according to rumors, he had illegitimate children. And at the age of 48, he began secretly dating 18-year-old Princess Katya Dolgorukova, who years later became his second wife.
Their extensive erotic correspondence has been preserved - perhaps the most frank on behalf of the head of state: “In anticipation of our meeting, I am trembling all over again. I imagine your pearl in the shell"; “We had each other the way you wanted. But I must confess to you: I will not rest until I see your charms again...”
Nicholas II (1894-1917)
The most terrible secret was and remains the death of the latter’s family Russian Emperor. For many years after the execution in the basement without trial or investigation, the Soviet authorities lied to the whole world that only Nikolai was killed, and his wife, four daughters and son were alive and well and “transported to a safe place where nothing threatens them.” This gave rise to popular rumors about the allegedly escaped princesses and Tsarevich Alexei and contributed to the emergence of a huge army of impostor adventurers. In 2015, at the insistence of the Church, the investigation into the death of the royal family began “from scratch.” A new genetic examination has confirmed the authenticity of the remains of Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and three Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana and Anastasia, found near Yekaterinburg in 1991 and buried in the Peter and Paul Cathedral.
Faces of Nicholas II and Princess Anastasia reconstructed from the remains:
Then they began to compare them with the genetic materials of Alexei and Maria, found in 2007. The timing of their burial depends on the willingness of the Church to recognize the remains
On the night of July 17, 1918, in the basement of Ipatiev’s house in Yekaterinburg, the royal family of Russian Emperor Nicholas II and members of her retinue were executed. The execution took place by order of the executive committee of the Ural Regional Council of Workers, Peasants and Red Army Deputies, which was headed by the Bolsheviks.
Resolution:
“In view of the fact that Czech-Slovak gangs threaten the capital of the Red Urals, Yekaterinburg; in view of the fact that the crowned executioner can avoid the trial of the people (a conspiracy of the White Guards has just been discovered, with the goal of kidnapping the entire Romanov family), the Presidium of the regional committee, in fulfillment of the will of the people, decided: to shoot the former Tsar Nikolai Romanov, guilty before the people of countless bloody crimes.”
To this day, there is no unanimity of opinion among modern historians on the questions of whether sanction was given for the execution of Nicholas II without trial, what actually happened, and whether sanction was given for the execution of the entire family, and not just the emperor. In addition, there is also no consensus among lawyers on the question of whether the shooting was authorized by senior management.
According to the records, the participants in the execution did not know how the “execution” would be carried out. On the night of July 17, a truck arrived at Ipatiev’s house to transport corpses, after which doctor Botkin from the royal retinue was awakened, who was informed that everyone urgently needed to go to the basement due to the alarming situation in the city. IN basement Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra Fedorovna, five children (Olga, Tatyana, Maria, Anastasia, Alexey) and four people from the royal retinue crossed over. Then the Commandant of the Ipatiev House, Yakov Yurovsky, introduced the firing squad and read out the verdict. The emperor was killed first, but the son and daughters of Nicholas II, as well as the maid and doctor, were not killed immediately by the executioners. According to Yurovsky, the emperor’s daughters wore bodices entirely covered with diamonds and precious stones, which, in some way, saved them from fatal bullets. According to the investigation, the survivors were finished off with a bayonet.
After Tsar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks, a collection of personal photographs of the royal family was smuggled out of Russia. The albums offer a look at daily life Romanov family.