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Christmas in Romanoff "Hello Ritka cute! - Wrote on December 26, Grand Duchess Olga Margarita Hitrovo - Now and Holidays. We in the corner rooms and tree produces wonderful smell is not the same as in the Tsar. It's some special variety called "balsam tree." It smells strongly of oranges and tangerines and the trunk resin flowing all the time. Ornaments not only silver rain and wax candles, of course, the church, because there is no other. After lunch on Christmas Eve , handing out gifts to all, for the most part different embroidery. When we dismantled it and appointed, to decide what to give us a completely resembled bazaars in Yalta. remember how much it was always cooked? Vigil was about 10 pm, and burned tree. was nice and cozy . " So passed last Christmas the family of Nicholas II. Live it remained little more than six months. Touching picture of Irina Chrome, however, it has already shown you I believed t & t supermarket that in the Romanov family (and some historians say about Russia in general) tradition of decorating a Christmas tree brought the wife of Nicholas I. Alexandra Feodorovna hand was lighter than the defeated Peter I, long before it tries to introduce decorating homes with fir branches. As recalled Baroness Maria Fredericks, "Christmas Eve, after the service, the Empress tree has always been for her august children, and the whole entourage t & t supermarket was invited to this family event ... each had its own table with Christmas tree harvested different gifts ... We have always t & t supermarket collected first into the inner chambers of her Majesty. There about the closed doors of the concert hall or rotunda in the Winter Palace, which commonly occurs in the tree, fought and jostled each other all children, royal, inclusive, who first get into the coveted Hall. Empress went ahead to explore more once all the tables, and we fought and hearts with joy and curiosity expectations. Suddenly heard the bell, the door dissolved and we ran in with a Bang in thousands of candles lit room. Empress herself to let down each designated table and gave gifts. You can imagine how much joy, pleasure and gratitude flowed at this moment ... a Christmas tree with all the gifts then I brought home and I owe it to poke fun and treats with her, these gifts consisted of different things beyond her years, respectively. As children we received toys, books in his youth, dresses , silver, diamonds and later the like. I still kept a desk with one of the king's trees ... " K.Uhtomsky, "Concert Hall" E.Gau, "Rotonda" Lack of electricity t & t supermarket made the tree very dangerous because instead of modern colored lights on them burned dozens of candles. "December 17 was a fire in the Winter Palace - Grand Duchess Olga recalled, the daughter of Nicholas I, for winter 1837. - It happened in the evening. We had the usual tree lit in the Small Hall, where we present each other trifles bought at our pocket money. parents were in the theater, where she had "God and the Bayadere" with Taglioni. At half past nine, when we were just about to go to bed, Dad suddenly appeared here with a helmet on his head and a sword taken out of its scabbard. "Get dressed quickly , you are going to Anichkov "- he said hastily. At the same time excited cameras footman banged t & t supermarket on the door and shouted," Lights! .. Lights! .. "... When the Pope in the theater knew about the fire, he thought at first that burns on our side - he has always t & t supermarket been against the trees." Modest tree emigrants. Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, the middle of the XX century the years passed, the palaces have changed the face and continued to hold a Christmas tree. Although, of course, on the situation they may be less magnificent (as during the Russian-Turkish War of 1877-78), more sad (as that suit the wife of Alexander II for their dying in Nice firstborn, Grand Duke Nicholas, when instead toys on branches hung photographs of relatives and friends) or cause mixed feelings of happiness and sadness (as in 1894, when the newly Emperor wrote in his diary: "At 6 pm went to vespers. After it was in the tree pigeon guest. following the example of bygone years! And happy and sad - what a change from last year: Dear Dad asked, Xenia married, I'm married. Sweetheart Mother of us all still showered with gifts! At 8 pm dinner. When we came down with Alix, we had each other your Christmas tree! ") Olga in exile with childhood t & t supermarket nostalgia and anticipation of the holiday. t & t supermarket Of course, it was particularly difficult, she said, wait for the evening: "We dined in the room next to the banquet hall. Room doors were s