Grand Duchesses Olga Nikolaevna and Tatiana Nikolaevna

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna (1895-1918) and Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna (1897-1918), the eldest daughters of Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna of Russia. Granddaughters of Empress Maria Fyodorovna; great-granddaughters of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. Known collectively within the Tsar’s family as “The Big Pair,” while their younger sisters, Grand Duchesses Maria Nikolaevna and Anastasia Nikolaevna were called “The Little Pair,” nicknames that reflected the fact that their mother dressed them in pairs, so that the two older and two younger girls wore near-identical clothing. Executed along with their parents and younger siblings by the Bolsheviks at Ipatiev House.

Figure 11.1. Popperfoto, The Grand Duchess Olga, left, with her sister the Grand Duchess Tatiana, the daughters of Tsar Nicholas II, c. 1914, Getty Images, source: Wikimedia Commons.

1910s

Evening-wear

Figure 11.2. Workshop of August Brisac, Dress of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, 1912-14, gauze, satin, silk, metal, lace, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, ЭРТ-12863, source: Hermitage.

Figure 11.3. Workshop of August Brisac, Dress of Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna, 1912-14, satin, chiffon, lace, glass-beads, artificial pearls, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, ЭРТ-12888, source: Hermitage.

Court dresses

Figure 11.4. Bain News Service, Grand Duchess Olga, c. 1910-13, glass negative, 5 x 7 in. or smaller, George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C., LC-B2- 2959-1, source: Wikimedia Commons.

Figure 11.5. Photographer unknown, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna, 1913, source: Twitter.

Figure 11.6. Workshop of O. N. Bulbenkova (Russian), Ceremonial court dresses of Grand Duchesses Olga Nikolaevna and Tatiana Nikolaevna, 1913, satin, tulle, velvet, artificial flowers, lace, imitation pearls, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg,
ЭРТ-13142, source: Hermitage.

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