Empress Alexandra and her daughters outside the Catherine Palace at Tsarskoe Selo: 1916.

Grand Duchess Anastasia and her mother Empress Alexandra aboard the Standart: 1910.

Empress Alexandra and Grand Duchess Tatiana in Finland: 1913. 

Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra and their daughters aboard the Standart: 1908. 

Empress Alexandra and Grand Duchess Tatiana greeting an official aboard the Standart: 1908. 

The Imperial Family outside the Winter Palace: July 1914. 

Empress Alexandra and Grand Duchess Anastasia aboard the Standart: 1907.

cranberrystreet:

I always forget Anna was a nurse.

She wasn’t a very good one. She was grumpy and rough and the soldiers didn’t like her. 

Empress Alexandra, Grand Duchess Olga, and Nicholas II in Moscow for Grand Duchess Olga’s First Confession: 1903.

The Imperial Family at the windows of their train: 1913.