Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc I have no idea at all because this came as a bit of a surprise to me - I had always just assumed that she was French and that her ancestry was likewise. She told me that when the Bolsheviks took over and executed the Tsar etc. her family (as 'minor' royalty) were allowed to leave Russia on foot with just one suitcase each. The album went into the suitcase and the family ended up in Paris as the French were sympathetic to them at the time, and her mother had lived there ever since. Gerry Marc James Small wrote: > At 09:05 PM 2/28/04 +0000, Gerry Walden wrote: > >Totally off target but a while ago I was handed an album by a friend > >with 'Could I copy some of the old photos?' She explained that she had > >the album from her 80+ mother who was living in Paris and she may never > >get it again. On looking I found photos of the Tsar and his family with > >hand written notes on them. 'Oh yes' she said ' this one says Happy > >Christmas from Nicholas' and this one says etc. etc. Turns out that her > >great-grandmother was a member of the Russian royal family and this > >album was the family album that was brought out of Russia when they were > >allowed to flee! > > Was her ancestor the wife of Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, the > younger > brother of the latest Tsar? She must be: the other Romanov relics are > well documented, but the family was always uncertain just how to treat > Michael and his irregular marriage, an approach which carried over to the > British royal house. (The Windsors privately supported the surviving > Romanovs during the 1920's and 1930's and still maintain close and > cordial > relations with many of them, but, for political reasons, have always kept > this conection quite low-key.) > > Marc > > msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Gerry Walden LRPS www.gwpics.com +44 23 8046 3076 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html