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Helen Rappaport

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2 years

This Hilary Mantel quote beautifully encapsulates how I feel about writing history: 'I like putting my hand out to the dead & seeing who will take it...Nothing touches me so profoundly as the traces the dead have left; it's an intellectual fascination but also an emotional pull.'

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Well said ⁦ @sixteenthCgirl ⁩ - the loss of new original history and archaeology programming on BBC4 is terrible.

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Absolutely bowled over by this stunning portrait of the prima ballerina Tamara Karsavina by Alfred Eberling, who was a pupil of the great Russian master Repin.

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3 years

How touching is this? One of our old villlagers - born locally and lived here all her life - was recently buried in our churchyard and this sweet robin floral tribute was placed on her grave. I’ve never seen anything quite like it.

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3 years

A sad day remembering my mum who died four years ago just short of her 100th birthday. I wouldn’t normally share such personal things but this photo taken by my brother is such a profoundly moving and accomplished portrait of old age that I wanted to share it

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2 years

Embroidered batiste blouses worn by the #Romanov sisters in captivity March 1917-July 1918. Tonight 16/17 July they were savagely murdered in #Ekaterinburg with their brother and parents 104 years ago

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3 years

Nicholas II's library in the Hermitage St Petersburg

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3 years

Библиотека императора Николая II в Эрмитаже

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3 years

The Catherine Palace at Tsarskoe Selo looks magical in the snow.

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3 years

Екатерининский дворец, Царское Село.

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6 years

Rare pictures show Queen Victoria and Emperor Napoleon III in 1855

Rare pictures show Queen Victoria and Emperor Napoleon III in 1855

The incredibly rare photograph (pictured) of the monarch and the President of France was taken in April 1855 and has come to light in a fascinating collection of historic slides.

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3 years

The face of a fierce & indomitable fighter. Aunt Polly Jackson once enslaved, managed to escape via the Underground Railroad from the brutal working conditions forced upon her since birth. She settled in Ripley Ohio & dedicated rest of her life to helping others win their freedom

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1 year

For me nothing surpasses this Jane Austen TV adaptation. It was pitch perfect in every aspect - script, casting, costumes, locations. British television at its very best.

FrockFlicks

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1 year

On this day in 1995, the one true Pride & Prejudice premiered in the UK with costumes by Dinah Collin! Check out our review on at #PrideAndPrejudice #DinahCollin #1810sFashion #RegencyCostume #HistoricalCostume #CostumeDrama

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1 year

Crikey! This is such a striking photograph. Shades of Nicolas II and George V of course but very impressive all the same

Rory Lewis

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1 year

Capturing History and Tradition: Prince Michael of Kent's Royal Portrait for the Coronation.

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1 year

Astonishingly modern looking - he looks like a wasted rock star.

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@HelenRappaport

8 years

Afte 12 hr labour Victoria was briefly disappointed at birth of daughter, then said 'Never mind the next will be a prince' #victoriaitv

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6 years

Olga Romanova writes 1917: ‘Father asks us to remember that the evil which is now in the world will become stronger yet & that it is not evil which conquers evil but love ‘. I can’t think of a more appropriate epitaph & farewell to my lovely #RomanovSisters on 100th anniversary.

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1 year

Dear @NPGLondon why have you totally airbrushed me out of your #MarySeacole panel? You would not have the portrait if I had not discovered it! And why on earth don’t you have my biography in yr shop for people wanting to know more about her & the painting’s discovery?

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3 years

The exquisite Catherine Park at Tsarskoe Selo

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3 years

Екатерининский парк в Царском Селе

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6 years

Artist Emma Jones wife of Alexis Soyer has one of the most beautiful grave monuments at Kensal Green cemetery - recently restored #fakeorfortune

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@HelenRappaport

4 years

Another one for the Nicholas II fan club . That means you ⁦ @marinamaral2 ⁩

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@HelenRappaport

3 years

Dagmar of Denmark aka Tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna was undoubtedly the most stylish Russian monarch ever.

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3 years

This week's #TsarinaSaturday is Maria Feodorovna's 1880-1 House of Fromont evening dress. It's made of satin, Brussel lace, and beads and kind of looks a little like a dress for a Disney villain. #fashionhistory

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5 years

#TheLastCzars ep 3 infuriated me. Rasputin did not sexually molest Stolypin's injured daughter Anna! This is gross misrepresentation. He stood at bottom of bed holding an icon &praying & reassured she wd recover. Details of his true relationship with family in my Four Sisters

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3 years

Mary is my 15th book but means more to me than any other as there were times I thought I’d never get it published. So proud to finally see it in print. Thank you ⁦⁦ @simonschusterUK ⁩ for producing such a beautiful book ⁦ @PFDAgents ⁩ ⁦ @seacolestatue ⁩

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@HelenRappaport

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Absolutely stunned by this little known magnificent portrait of Nicholas II by great Russian painter Valentin Serov. N in uniform of Royal Scots Greys. Queen Victoria appointed him honorary Colonel in Chief in 1896. Currently on loan National Galleries of Scotland @Romanovs100

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@HelenRappaport

5 years

Wow amazing unseen material just received from Russia that means I am going to be able to tell a previously untold royal story in ways it’s never been touched on in English before. Very excited. .....

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@HelenRappaport

5 years

Today in Ekaterinburg pilgrims are gathering for the annual solemn commemoration of the murder of the Romanovs on night 16/17 July 1918. I spent 12 years charting their story through 3 books and they will always have a place in my heart & my imagination

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Something about Russia that is so magical in winter. The Church on the Blood in St Petersburg in the snow

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3 years

Зимний Спас на Крови Автор фото: andrei_mikhailov

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4 years

Gorgeous colourisation by @marinamaral2 and don’t Olga and Tatiana look stunning!

Marina Amaral

@marinamaral2

4 years

Nicholas II and Grand Duchesses Olga & Tatiana with officers of the Caspian 148th Infantry Regiment, named after Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna. Tsarskoe Selo, 1914.

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3 years

As a historian I was deeply disappointed in this film. I wanted to see Anning's work discovering fossils on Jurassic Coast and how she fought against being marginalised by the male scientific establishment. No this full on sex romp based on zilch evidence.

Welcome to the woke age of cinema - where 'historical dramas' peddle revisionist lies

In Ammonite, film-maker Francis Lee has usurped and misconstrued the life of paleontologist Mary Anning in favour of titillation

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@HelenRappaport

4 years

This is for @marinamaral2 's collection of historical hotties. 20 year old bad boy poet Vladimir Mayakovsky.

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@HelenRappaport

3 years

Maria Pavlovna fled Russia after the Revolution and worked in the Paris fashion business . She’s in my book After the Romanovs about Russian exiles in Paris

Victoria Haddock

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3 years

Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia was born #OnThisDay in 1890. This c. 1905 white silk belted dress, embellished with embroidered tulle, stones and pearls, was owned and worn by Maria Pavlovna. The dress is labeled N. Lamanova, Moscow. @sormlandsmuseum #Royals #Russia #dress

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8 years

Yes indeed there is a book to accompany the series. I wrote it! The Victoria Letters. I do hope you all enjoy it! #victoriaitv

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@HelenRappaport

6 years

Princess Charlotte’s Russian style sarafan made in 1817

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1 year

I have just bought my first sun hat in 30 years. Bit OTT for the dog walk???

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5 years

Oh this is lovely! That’s the girls’ governess Sofia Tyutcheva on right hand side. She hated Rasputin and was sacked by Nicholas & Alexandra for spreading gossip about him

Marina Amaral

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5 years

Colorized by me: The Romanov children. Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Alexei.

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8 years

Here is one of stockings Vic wore for her wedding. She never wore the same pair twice. @ITVVictoria

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8 years

'The blackest stain upon civilized Europe' Albert's real words said with conviction on 1 June 1840 at Anti-Slavery Convention #VictoriaITV

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6 years

This absolutely touching photo of Nicholas II with his baby son Alexey was recently posted by a colleague on Facebook. Say what you will about his failings as a monarch, but how many images have you ever seen of an emperor dandling his son on his knee with so much love???

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Helen Rappaport

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5 years

Proud to say that I wrote all the historical content for the presentation packs for New stamps to mark royal bicentenaries of Victoria and...

New stamps to mark royal bicentenaries of Victoria and Albert

Six of the stamps chart Queen Victoria´s life from the age of 11 and four celebrate Prince Albert´s legacy.

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@HelenRappaport

1 year

I'm curious as to why so much of the jewellery - especially the rings - are black . Any particular reason not to have coloured jewels @NicolaTallis ? Are they jet or obsidian?

Mathew Lyons

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1 year

Portrait of Katherine Parr, previously thought a Holbein portrait of Queen Mary, up for auction at Sotheby’s next week.

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6 years

At last I can reveal my exclusive story on exciting & unexpected new DNA evidence that confirms that the Romanovs all died in Ekaterinburg. Time the ROC ceased prevaricating and announced their findings

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@HelenRappaport

3 years

Sisi was a fabulous horsewoman and noted beauty but as soon as she started ageing later in 1860s she refused to have any photographs taken of her

WikiVictorian

@wikivictorian

3 years

Empress Elisabeth of Austria riding a horse. Photographed in 1863.

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@HelenRappaport

8 years

If you want to know more of real V&A story do read my 2 books @TheVictoriaLetters and Magnificent Obsession

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@HelenRappaport

3 years

Am touched beyond words by the extraordinary warm response to my mother’s photo. Thank you so much. It’s easy to forget that the elderly parents we remember at their deaths & whose frailty we never cease to grieve were once young & vibrant. This is c1939 - facing war & separation

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@HelenRappaport

3 years

I can’t think of the right words to sufficiently praise #TimeBBC . It was one of the most riveting and profoundly moving TV dramas I’ve ever seen. Sean Bean’s quiet and understated performance was the best thing he’s ever done

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3 years

Absolutely magnificent!

A Stitch in Time ✂️

@AStitchinTime13

3 years

The influence of the Arts & Crafts Movement is reflected in this coat, made in England 1895-1900 @V_and_A collections. Embroidered velvet with silks, satin & machine-made lace, retailed by Marshall & Snelgrove. V&A notes similarity to photographs in Worth archive #fashionhistory

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3 years

Just arrived from New York - proof copies of After the Romanovs, due out 8 March 2022 ⁦ @PFDAgents ⁩

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@HelenRappaport

8 years

As Historical Consultant on Victoria can confirm story of Albert cutting jacket for corsage

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@HelenRappaport

5 years

There's an article about new book of daguerrotypes of California Gold Rush sadly behind Telegraph paywall but here's one photo - my god these three are serious dudes. What a brilliant photograph!!

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4 years

@marinamaral2 Actually Marina the photo was taken 1912 off coast of SW archipelago of Finland when Romanovs were having one of their regular jaunts on the Imperial Yacht the Shtandart @KarnovichValua @simonmontefiore @PFDAgents

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Just seen this rather gorgeous colourised photo of Nicholas II - so handsome and in civvies which he rarely wore !

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@HelenRappaport

3 years

The poet Sergey Esenin (tousle-haired blonde one standing) and friends from the Agricultural Institute draping themselves decoratively over Pushkin's statue at Tsarskoe Selo c.1924 ... Hm those legs on the chap in the Greek tunic ... paging @marinamaral2

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@HelenRappaport

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Victoria dreaded getting pregnant thought it an 'unhappy condition Jumping up and down really was a naive Victorian preventive #VictoriaITV

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Lord Mountbatten met her in 1910 when he was 10. He spoke of how the Romanov sisters were "lovely, & terribly sweet, far more beautiful than their photographs show. I was crackers about Marie & was determined to marry her. ... I keep her photograph in my bedroom — always have."

Nick Short 🇺🇦

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Grand Duchess Maria, the third daughter of the last Tsar of Russia and aged 13 here, in the uniform of the 9th Dragoon Kazan Maria Nikolaevna Regiment. 1912. #History #Russia

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Helen Rappaport

@HelenRappaport

5 years

Starting tomorrow a fascinating new R4 series on Queen Victoria presented by @Lucy_Worsley . I will be appearing in episode 8 talking with Lucy about Prince Albert's health, his dramatic physical decline n 1861 & what really killed him. @PFDAgents

BBC Radio 4 - Encounters with Victoria - Next on

Upcoming episodes of Encounters with Victoria

www.bbc.co.uk

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@HelenRappaport

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15 years ago today I was in the Koptyaki Forest outside Ekaterinburg where the Romanovs’ bodies were dumped after their murder. This is one of 7 little churches there commemorating the family. And oh the birch trees!!!

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Helen Rappaport

@HelenRappaport

6 years

Calling all Victorianists. It wd appear that these 2 photos frequently identified as the English courtesan Skittles are NOT her but in fact Russian Empress Maria Feodorovna. She was a brilliant horsewoman. Confirmed to me by direct descendant. Lot of pictures need relabelling!

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Helen Rappaport

@HelenRappaport

2 years

An important new French film about the contribution of black Africans from their colonies to the French war effort in WWI. It is time their story was properly told. I hope there will be a release here with English sub-titles

Omar Sy

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« On a pas la même mémoire, mais on a la même histoire » Ému et fier de partager avec vous la bande annonce de TIRAILLEURS, au cinéma le 4 JANVIER.

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4 years

Absolutely overjoyed, after discovering her lost portrait in 2003 & 16 years tracking her story, that my biography of Mary Seacole has been signed by @simonschusterUK @seacolestatue @RacingGreenUK @PFDAgents @florencemuseum @katewwpr

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Helen Rappaport

@HelenRappaport

2 years

Any other historians spent a whole day in tears in response to a vitriolic poisonous attack on their work by a jealous and bitter no hoper-no reputation reader? I'm sure you know the pack drill @HallieRubenhold but anyone else? How best to deal with them? I am distraught.

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@HelenRappaport

3 years

One late afternoon in autumn 1999 I toiled up the hill from village below to see this church. The light was going - dark dramatic skies and swirling mist descending but it was an extraordinary experience.

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Tsarevich Alexey having an outdoor French lesson with his Swiss tutor Pierre Gilliard cannot conceal his profound boredom. Probably taken at Tsarskoe Selo c 1916

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@HelenRappaport

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..... and here is Anastasia trying it out

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She was a princess born to privilege but aged only 14 was taken to Russia & married off to psychopath.On #InternationalWomensDay as I write Julie of Saxe Coburg's story I think of all the other innocent underage teenage brides in history sacrificed at altar of dynastic expediency

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@HelenRappaport

2 years

An early release for the paperback of After the Romanovs. Out today with slightly amended subtitle @PFDAgents

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6 years

Here in Austin it’s time for a drink after 10 hour flight but previewing the exciting new #Romanovs100 Interactive print edition also featuring great colorisation artwork by ⁦ @marinamaral2 ⁩ ⁦⁦ @PFDAgents ⁩

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My four lovely #Romanov sisters in their iconic white cotton and lace and big fluffy hats. They always seem at their most sweet and innocent dressed like this. With their governess Sofya Tyutcheva

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3 years

I am truly thrilled and honoured to have just heard that I've been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, alongside fellow historian @sauldavid66 @PFDagents

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The characteristically remote and austere beauty of #AlexandraofHesse perfectly captured in this portrait, probably taken before her marriage to #NicholasII in 1894

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1 year

Easter Sunday and this is my church and birdsong is my choir and my little dog is my good companion. Time to recoup and reflect and wish with all my heart for a better world for all. Xx

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4 years

For fitness freaks who have asked me - here is Nicholas II’s chin bar at the Alexander Palace. He also exercised on one in Tobolsk under house arrest

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4 years

This is so uncanny but have to say he was a handsome bugger, even though he smoked like a chimney and had bad teeth.

Nick Short 🇺🇦

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4 years

Tsar Nicholas II in 1908. Blimey.

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Embroidered batiste blouses worn by the Russian grand duchesses in captivity. I find the sight of them utterly haunting and so poignant . Now on show in exhibition On Kast Days of Romanovs at Jordanville Monastery Upstate New York. ⁦ @PFDAgents ⁩ #Romanovs100

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Exhibition "The Children of the Last Russian Emperor, #OTMA & Alexey" will run at St Petersburg Hermitage 19 May-10 September & am beyond sad that as Romanov historian I won't be able to see it. Originally intended I think to transfer Hermitage Amsterdam but that won't happen now

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Tsarevich Alexey’s uniform of a Kuban Cossack found by chance for sale in a government shop in Leningrad in 1935 by Lady Muriel Paget

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3 years

Goodness me! What a face @marinamaral2

Joëlle Alazard

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3 years

Je viens de retrouver ce daguerréotype de Delacroix, réalisé par L. Riesener, en 1842 : quelle merveille!

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The scent of lilies, Ganina Yama, #Ekaterinburg 17 July 2007. That morning I stood in front of the burial pit into which bodies of #Romanov family were thrown hours after their murder. It was planted with lilies & the aroma was totally overpowering. I'll never forget that moment.

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5 years

My goodness what an arresting face!

BabelColour

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If asked to name a British actor, how many would say Sir John Martin-Harvey? Born in Essex in 1863 he was a darling of the stage and early film, knighted in 1921 and now lost to obscurity. From his photographs he certainly looks quite the character!

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Excited to to announce 2 book deal with @StMartinsPress NY. 1st will be 'White Russians in Paris 1919-1939: what it felt like be forced to flee Russia, dislocations of resettlement & how so many suffered poverty, sickness, isolation & never adjusted to separation from motherland.

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Tonight 9pm see @ITVVictoria become first royal bride to overturn convention & wear white rather than state robes of ermine and red velvet.

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Nothing quite so enchanting as photo of Romanov sisters in their signature sailor suits. I adore this one of Anastasia & Maria. Don't know date but would say c 1910? Looks as though it might have been taken on one of their holidays on the imperial yacht round Finnish skerries.

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The true story of how Prince Philip's DNA solved a Russian Romanov murder mystery

The Duke of Edinburgh, who has died aged 99, helped to identify the remains of the last Tsar and his family who were murdered in 1918

www.telegraph.co.uk

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A lovely colourisation of Tsaritsa Alexandra with her beloved son Alexey the Tsarevich. #Romanovs

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4 years

What a brilliant historic photo of pioneer women doctors

Ephemeral Elegance

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4 years

THREAD 1/: Extraordinary image via @DrexelUniv of Dr. Anandabai Joshee of India, Dr. Kei Okami of Japan, and Dr. Tabat M. Islambooly of Syria, classmates at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, each the first women from their countries to earn degrees in western medicine.

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1 year

Out today — the US paperback of After the Romanovs. ⁦ @PFDAgents ⁩

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6 years

Emma Jones was wife of celebrated chef Alexis Soyer who reformed feeding of army and field kitchens in Crimea. Soyer was a great friend of Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole. #fakeorfortune

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The magnificent French artist Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun arrived St Petersburg 1795 & painted some of most exquisite portraits of female Russian aristocracy. The subject of my next book was one of them.

A Stitch in Time ✂️

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This/she is so engaging & just look at the dress detail #fashionhistory . 'Portrait of a Young Woman' painted in oil on canvas, Vigée Le Brun ca 1797 @mfaboston . The unidentified Russian sitter is depicted as if in motion.

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@HelenRappaport

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Well I always thought the #RomanovSisters were the greatest royal beauties, but goodness me, Princess Ileana of Romania (1909-91) was equally lovely. In 1961 she gave it all up & became a nun and set up a convent in Pennsylvania.

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Helen Rappaport

@HelenRappaport

2 years

Anne's post reminded me of my little Netley side table - found years ago in a charity shop. Was it made by a recovering wounded WWI soldier I wonder??

Anne Louise Avery

@AnneLouiseAvery

2 years

Netley Hospital, November 1917. A young painter, shellshocked, ravished by the dead, dresses, sits each day on the cold veranda, watches the slow movement of the clouds. A robin, stealing crumbs, begins to visit – bright holy song in the frost, medicine so old it has no name.

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I was oreoccupied throughout by fact that Nicholas's beard was much too bushy #irritatinghistoricalinaccuracies The Last Czars, Netflix review: no bad wigs here – this Romanovs docu-drama has a Crown-sized budget via @teletvradio

The Last Czars, Netflix review: no bad wigs here – this Romanovs docu-drama has a Crown-sized...

The House of Special Purpose, where Czar Nicholas II and his family were imprisoned and finally executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918, bears one of the most terrifyingly bland names in 20th century...

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Helen Rappaport

@HelenRappaport

6 years

A sweet letter written by Alexandra’s sister Ella describing the forthcoming wedding to Nicholas and What her sister would wear.

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@HelenRappaport

2 years

'As Helen Rappaport writes in her brilliant history The Race to Save the Romanovs,....' Well I do at least get an acknowledgment in long Telegraph article today on Crown ep 6, but if anyone wants to know the real reasons why no one could save the Romanovs please read my book:

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Helen Rappaport

@HelenRappaport

5 years

Here is the beautiful cover for the Dutch edition of The Victoria Letters, out on 16 April.

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Helen Rappaport

@HelenRappaport

3 years

Here is my new book for the US market, out with @StMartinsPress 8 March 2022. Still hoping to get a UK deal for it but it will appear just two and a bit weeks before my Mary Seacole biography in UK @simonschusterUK @PFDAgents

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Helen Rappaport

@HelenRappaport

1 year

Can't stand the mystification of the writing process. My 'process' is: get up, walk dog, make coffee & toast, organise research material, sit at computer- and write. That's it. No mystique. It's a job.

Michael Spicer

@MrMichaelSpicer

1 year

all podcasts featuring writers talking about their process should have a person in the middle who says nothing but just gets progressively angry

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Helen Rappaport

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8 years

@Vicbert wedding cake weighed 300lbs 16 inches deep & cost 100 guineas Made by Chief Royal Confectioner John Mawditt

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Helen Rappaport

@HelenRappaport

4 years

Absolutely thrilled that I will have total involvement in this wonderful project and for once will not be just the token talking head! @PFDAgents @KarnovichValua @IvorCrotty @StMartinsPress #Romanovs

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Helen Rappaport

@HelenRappaport

3 years

Book covers are fascinating in the way they vary from country to country and, here at last is the UK cover for 'After the Romanovs'. It could not be more different than the US cover. Scribe will publish the UK edition next October. @PFDAgents

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Helen Rappaport

@HelenRappaport

4 years

Facebook just reminded me today of the first time I met my little sprocker Lottie. She has been my most loyal and loving companion these last 6 years and I would be lost without her.

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@HelenRappaport

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Today is the birthday of the most beautiful and enigmatic of all the #Romanov sisters - Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna. Had she lived she would undoubtedly have been a leading style icon of her generation.

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@HelenRappaport

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I think these must be the biggest hats I’ve ever seen the Romanov girls wearing! Seen here Tatiana, Maria and Olga.

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