Maria Nikolaevna ROMANOV
The third child of Tsar Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna, born in St. Petersburg on 14 June 1899. Mashka, as it was called, was a young, beautiful, rich brown hair, huge, expressive eyes that ranged from gray to blue, so large that the family were known as "Mary's dishes, very tall for her age, cheeks, obedient, charming, loving, gentle, very sweet, he could be stubborn and lazy from time to time, docile but also mischievous, cheerful and very simple, the easiest of the four sisters. He had a talent for drawing and did it well, always used his left hand. It was surprisingly strong and sometimes amused by demonstrating how he could lift their guardians of the soil.
She and her sister Anastasia family were known as the "couple of children." They shared the same room and spent much time together. The four Grand Duchesses used to sign his letters OTMA acronym, resulting from the initials of their names. Her older sisters Mary objected to participate in their games and once referred to it as his "sister", to be very good and stay out of trouble. Due to his good character, her sisters dominate at will, especially the little Anastasia, and called her "fat bow-vow libble." Mary needed to feel loved and feared he would not be as beloved as the other children of the czars. Her mother said she was so beloved as his sisters and brother.
innocent Mary enjoyed flirting with the young soldiers who found the palace and family vacations. Loved children and especially, if it was not a Grand Duchess, I would have preferred to marry a Russian soldier and have a large family. It is said that his cousin Brother Louis Mountbatten was always in love with her and kept a photograph of Mary at his bedside until his own assassination in 1979.
Like her younger sister Anastasia, Mary visited wounded soldiers at a private hospital on the grounds of Tsarskoe Selo palace during the First World War. The two teenagers who were too young to become nurses like their mother and older sisters, played games of checkers and billiards with the soldiers and tried to lift their spirits. The two younger sisters also made a visit to the nursing school and helped care for children. During the war, Mary her sisters and her mother visited the Tsar and Tsarevich Alexei at war headquarters in Mogilev. During these visits, Mary was attracted by an official named Nikolai Dmitrievich Demenkov. When the women returned to Tsarskoe Selo, Maria often asked his father to give him Demenkov memories and sometimes, in jest, he signed his letters to the Tsar as "Mrs. Demenkov.
In February 1917 Russian Revolution broke out. Mary was with her mother on the night of March 13, to plead with the soldiers who remained loyal to the imperial family. Shortly thereafter, at seventeen years old, became ill with measles and a virulent pneumonia and almost dies. He was not told that his father had abdicated the throne until she began to recover. The family was arrested and imprisoned, first at home in Tsarskoe Selo and later in Tobolsk and Yekaterinburg, Siberia. Mary tried to make friends with his guards, in Tsarskoe Selo and in Tobolsk, and soon learned their names and details about their wives and children. However, she was aware she was being watched constantly.
The Empress chose to accompany the family to Yekaterinburg when briefly separated in April 1918. Her mother felt she could depend on their third daughter to help her because he could not Olga trust for his deep depression or Anastasia, who was still a child. The judicious Tatiana was needed to care for his brother who was ill. The other four children would join his family in Ekaterinburg several weeks later. In his letters to his brothers in Tobolsk, Mary described her discomfort with the new restrictions in Yekaterinburg. She and her parents were registered by the guards and warned that they would suffer future registrations. Mary spent time trying to make friends with the members of the Guard. He showed photos of his albums and talked to them about their families and their own hopes of a new life in England if it were free. In his memoirs guards remember it was a girl who liked to have fun and not assumed airs, often being scolded by his mother for being too friendly with the guards.
In his nineteenth birthday, Mary escaped from the group with a guard named Ivan Skorokhodov, to have a private time, but were spotted together in a compromising situation when two of his superiors made a surprise inspection of the house. Skorokhodov was removed from office by his friendship with the Grand Duchess. In the following days, both the Empress and her older sister, appeared angry with Mary and Olga avoided his company. After this incident, a new command is installed. Family was forbidden to fraternize with officers and the conditions of his imprisonment were made even stricter.
On the morning of July 17, 1918, was murdered by the Bolsheviks along with his family and several servants. After the fall of the Soviet Union came to light the place where the imperial family buried. In 1991, he exhumed the bodies, but were not among them the remains of Grand Duchess Maria nor her brother Alexei. The Grand Duchess, together with the rest of the family, was canonized as a martyr by the Orthodox Church in 2000. In 2007 they announced the discovery of the bodies of Maria and Alexei, who after performing DNA testing, were buried with his parents and sisters. In April 2008 a laboratory confirmed that the remains found in 2007 belonged to the Grand Duchess Maria and Tsarevich Alexei, being finalized at the history of the last Russian imperial family.
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http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar% C3% ADa_Nikol% C3% C3% A1nova_ A1yevna_Rom% (1899)
http://en.wikipedia.org / wiki / Grand_Duchess_Maria_Nikolaevna_of_Russia_ (1899% E2% 80% 931 918)
http://madness.mi-web.es/board/proyecto-otma-t1571.html
http://velkokneznamaria.deviantart.com/art/Romanov- Tercentary-101913870
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