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. 

Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, and Maria with Anna Vyrubova aboard the Standart: 1910.

From left: Princess Gendroitz, Anna Vyrubova, a wounded soldier, Empress Alexandra, and Grand Duchess Olga: 1915. 

Empress Alexandra and Anna Vyrubova resting on the beach in Finland. 

Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana and Anna Vyrubova at the hospital at Tsarskoe Selo c. 1915.

The Imperial Family aboard the Polar Star: 1905.

Anna Vyrubova with Grand Duchesses Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Tsarevich Alexei: 1908. 

Anna Vyrubova and Alexandra Feodorovna on the balcony of the Alexander Palace: 1908.

The Imperial children with Anna Vyrubova and Baroness Buxhoeveden aboard the Standart: 1912. 

Two photographs from Anna Vyrubova’s album labeled “Tea on the farm,” 1914.