Source:
📷 Close up of Olga Nikolaevna photographed by Boissonnas & Eggler. Photograph shared by: Tatiana Danilova, ‘Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana (GARF 640-3-38)’, Flickr, shared 2 August 2017, [Accessed 23/08/2025]

SOURCES:
📷 Photographs of OTMA and Anastasia Nikolaevna: GARF F.683 Op.1 D.88 L.36
📷 Photograph of Tatiana Nikolaevna: Antiquitaten Kabinet Auktionshaus, ‘Autograph of Grand Duchess Tatiana’, shared July 2021, [accessed 24/08/2025]
📷 Other photographs are in the public domain

Tatiana Nikolaevna’s Committee was particularly famous, helping refugees to reconnect with loved ones who they had lost during upheaval. The Committee therefore sold more copies, and it is no coincidence that multiple photographs of Tatiana Nikolaevna have been recovered in good quality.

As the photographs were sold directly and not as widely internationally produced postcards, there are very few photographs that have been recovered in high quality.
It appears that there are a few poses yet to be found, such as Maria Nikolaevna photographed alone.

Sources continued - 2/2
📍 The Last Days of the Romanovs, ed. by George Gustav Telberg and Robert Wilton, (New York: George H. Doran Company, 1920), p. 56
📷 Photographs from the Romanov family albums, shared by LastRomanovs, Flickr

His English tutor, Sydney Gibbes, remembered Alexei as “kind-hearted”, selfless, and “very fond of animals”.

Sources - 1/2
📍 Pierre Gilliard, Thirteen Years at the Russian Court, translated by F. Appleby Holt, (London: Hutchinson & Co, 1921), p. 40

"He sometimes surprised me with questions beyond his years which bore witness to a delicate and intuitive spirit... I discovered a child of a naturally affectionate disposition, sensitive to suffering in others just because he had already suffered so much himself [from haemophilia]."

SOURCES
📍 Memoirs of Nicky and Alix, translated by Sergei Viatchanin, (New York[?]: New York Concept, 2016), page 43.
📷 From the photograph albums of the Romanov family, see LastRomanovs on Flickr.
📷 The first photograph of Tatiana is from a 1914 postcard, shared by RomanovsOneLastDance

Sources and photographs (5/5)

📷 marinamaral2, ‘Went to see the amazing Romanov's exhibition in Amsterdam today…’, Twitter, 3 August 2017

📷 anne-white-star, ‘Dress that belonged…’, tumblr, 15 June 2021

Sources and photographs (4/5):

📷 Eugenia (@ atsubor), ‘Blue gauze dress’, Flickr, 26 September 2023

📷 elenatsimbalistaia, ‘Восхитимся созданной красотой…’ Instagram, 23 May 2023

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📷 St. Petersburg, The Hermitage Museum, ЭРТ-12863, Dress of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna; Lamanova, Precedents and Competitors: Brizak August Lazarevich

Sources and photographs (2/5):

📍 George Gustav Telberg, Robert Wilton, Nikolai Sokolov, ‘The Last Days of the Romanovs’, (London: Thornton Butterwork Limited, 1920), ch. Examination of Mr. Gibbes

Sources and photographs (1/5):

📍St. Petersburg, The Hermitage Museum, ЭРТ-12863, Dress of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna;

📍Lamanova, Precedents and Competitors: Brizak August Lazarevich

📍Svpetrova via BlogSpot, ‘House of Brizak’, 16 January 2016

The dress entered the Hermitage Museum’s collection in 1950, where it has been preserved beautifully.

It has been exhibited multiple times, including internationally in Amsterdam, and was most recently exhibited at the ‘ОТМА + Алексей’ exhibition at the Hermitage.

Olga’s English Tutor, Sydney Gibbes, recalled that “Olga was very modest. She liked simplicity and did not pay much attention to dress.”

Olga is pictured wearing a very similar dress whilst holidaying at the Livadia Palace in 1913. Whilst this is not the exact dress preserved here, it demonstrates the popular style of the period and her fashion tastes.

August Brizak was a favourite designer of the Romanov family, making several gowns and sailor suits for the four Grand Duchesses and Tsarina Alexandra.

Originating from France, the Brizak family established a successful business in 1855 creating tailored gowns for wealthy clients.