Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia


Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia 1897 July 1918 was the second daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last monarch of Russia, and of Tsarina Alexandra. She was born at the Peterhof, Saint Petersburg.

A few years later, when World War I broke out, Tatiana became a Red Cross nurse with her mother and Olga. They cared for wounded soldiers in a private hospital on the grounds of Tsarskoye Selo. According to Vyrubova, Tatiana was almost as skillful and devoted as her mother, and complained only that on account of her youth she was spared some of the more trying cases. Valentina Ivanovna Chebotareva, who worked with her at the hospital, described in her journal how she planned to boil silk while Tatiana was otherwise occupied, fearing that Tatiana would be too tired to help her. But Tatiana guessed what Chebotareva was doing. Why can you breathe carbolic acid and I cant she asked Chebotareva and insisted on helping her with the work. Tatiana was strongly patriotic and apologized in anOctober 1914 letter for saying something negative about the Germans in her mothers presence. She explained that she forgot her mother had been born in Germany because she thought of Alexandra as only Rus

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