Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (Tatiana Nikolaevna, Russian Татьяна Николаевна Романова ; born May 29 . Jul / 10. June 1897 greg. In Tsarskoye Selo ; † 17th July 1918 in Yekaterinburg ) was the second daughter of Nicholas II of Russia. and Alexandra Fjodorowna , formerly Alix von Hessen-Darmstadt .
Childhood and youth
Tatyana Nikolaevna got her first name after the figure of Tatyana from Alexander Pushkin's work Eugene Onegin . Like her older sister Olga, she was a good student. She enjoyed doing handicrafts, playing the piano and poetry. Like her mother, she was strongly religious and shared her interest in fashion.
In 1913, she contracted typhus after drinking orangeade, which was made with unclean water, and hovered between life and death for weeks. In order to recover, the family traveled to their summer residence, the Livadia Palace in Crimea, for a longer stay .
Tatjana was honorary chairman of a committee named after her to support the war victims . During the First World War , like her mother and sister Olga, she worked as a nurse for the Russian Red Cross taking care of wounded soldiers in hospitals. There she took care of the wounded young officer Dimitri Malama in 1914, with whom she developed an enthusiastic love affair. After he had given her a little French bulldog , which she named Ortipo, his contact with the Romanov family intensified, which he visited again in 1916. The tsar and tsarina already saw him as a son-in-law. Malama fell on the side of the white troops in the Russian Civil War in 1919 .
Captivity and death
As a result of the February Revolution in 1917 and later the October Revolution , the entire Imperial family was captured and held for about a year. During the time of captivity, Tatiana lost a lot of weight. She was shot with her family in the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg on the night of July 17, 1918 . She was 21 years old.
Commemoration
In August 2000, she and her family were canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gunna Wendt : Alexandra - die last Zarin, Insel Verlag, Berlin, 2014 (p. 134).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Romanowa, Tatyana Nikolaevna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tsarskoye Selo |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 17, 1918 |
| Place of death | near Yekaterinburg |