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Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaievna of Russia Tanya,
Tatya or
Tanushka was the second daughter of
Nicholas II of Russia and
Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse. She was a younger sister of
Grand Duchess Olga of Russia. She was one of the elder sisters of
Grand Duchess Maria of Russia,
Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia and
Tsarevich Alexei of Russia.
Her godparents were
Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia,
The King of Denmark, Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaievich of Russia,
The Duke of York,
The Dowager Empress of Russia,
The Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha,
Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, and
Princess Victoria of Battenberg.
Tatiana and her older sister Olga, were known in the household as "The Big Pair". Like their younger sisters, they shared a bedroom and were very close to each other.
Along with her sister Olga, she was assigned a regiment of soldiers, the Vosnesensky
Hussars and given the rank of honorary colonel. She and her sister would go out and inspect the
soldiers regularly.
Tatiana was reserved, fashionable and had the posture and attitude of a princess. She was close to her mother. She was arguably the most beautiful of all the sisters. Tatiana was deeply religious and read the
Bible frequently. She was also the leader of the children who gave her the nickname "Governess". Tatiana was the one who took charge of everything which did not bother Olga, who was the eldest.
In 1914, she became an
Red Cross nurse with her mother and Olga. She was twenty one when she was murdered along with her family on July 17, 1918 in the cellar room of the
Ipatiev House in
Yekaterinburg. The murders were carried out by a death squad under the command of
Yakov Yurovsky.
In 2000, she and her family were canonized by the
Russian Orthodox Church.
External links
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- A media presentation of the last Imperial Family.
