The Alexander Palace balcony memories...
“THE FAMOUS” ALEXANDER PALACE BALCONY, as Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna referred to it in a letter...
The Alexander Palace balcony was an addition made by the last imperial family: Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra, in 1896. The balcony was to give Empress Alexandra the opportunity to sit outdoors without leaving the palace.
It was completely wired for electricity during the First World War, in 1915. Rain or shine, summer or winter, the Romanov family enjoyed tea time, meals and general leisure time on this balcony.
Every Romanov family member mentioned “the balcony” in their diaries or correspondence.
They all posed for numerous photographs on the balcony... So much life spent on "the balcony", so many happy memories...
Sadly, the balcony fell into disrepair after the revolution and was dismantled...
All that remains today are lots of photographs...
From the letters and diaries of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna:
“The weather is overcast and cool. Mama is still lying down on the balcony.”
“Mama sat on the balcony.”
“Mama and Anya are on the balcony.”
“I am sitting with Mama on the balcony after breakfast. Isa just came out and sat in the armchair which I planned [to use] myself.”
“Here on the balcony it got very cozy ever since Mama acquired the new wicker furniture made by the invalids, and the two lamps stay lit.”
“During the day ate on the balcony with A., M. and T… Until 10 o’cl. sat on the balcony - raining heavily…”
“Had dinner on the balcony…”; “Sat on the balcony with Mama and wrote telegrams. Very warm - 14 deg… Sat on the balcony with T., Aunt Olga, Mavra, Ioannchik and Elena.”
“Breakfast on the balcony with Nikolai Pavlovich, marvelous weather.”
“We are sitting on the balcony having tea. The weather is exceptionally nice… “
“Today is the anniversary of the famous balcony.” (11th August, 1916)
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Anothe magic place..that always remains in my soul,with their presences..
I hope they restore the balcony it is such an important part of the Alexander Palace history.
I know I'm repeating myself, but...How lonely the Palace looks now...THEY are missing...
@raquelregaderallorente7332
3 жыл бұрын
I agree😥
Excellent video! The modern footage of AP is beautiful! Let us hope the balcony is restored.
@davidadams188
4 жыл бұрын
Yes that would make the restoration complete and accurate to when the imperial family lived there.
@inthestepsoftheromanovs5750
4 жыл бұрын
There are no plans to restore it, sadly...
Were part of the original metal railings saved somewhere? The metal workmanship was exquisite.
Bellisimo
Qué vacío sin ellos.
Great vid again. What makes me sad, regarding the resturations, is that there seem to be NO plans to fix the rooms upstairs of OTMAA... :(
@inthestepsoftheromanovs5750
4 жыл бұрын
They don't plan to restore it because it wasn't part of the original AP structure.
@vonholdinghausen6886
4 жыл бұрын
@@inthestepsoftheromanovs5750 Do they say that? A bit far fetched I would say...I mean they are restoring the Alexanderpalace OF NICHOLAS & ALEXANDRA, the ORIGINAL Alexanderpalace looked VERY different from this. Not only furniture ofc, but the physical layout of the rooms. This layout that they are doing now was of the last IF family ONLY. I think they simply dont think those rooms of OTMAA are important enough... Well well...lets see what happends. Lets hope :)
@stefaniamastrocola8394
4 жыл бұрын
How sad they don't plan to restore it. But what we see in the images is what partially remains nowadays?
@vonholdinghausen6886
4 жыл бұрын
@@stefaniamastrocola8394 Not much remains from the time of Nicholas and Alexandra. The work that they are dooing now though is just fantastic. To say the least. IMPRESSIVE. The rooms of OTMAA upstairs has NOTHING in them that looks like when they lived there. Sadly.
@bradmoyse6162
3 жыл бұрын
That’s what I would want to see. They had an exhibition in their rooms before it closed. It would be a popular tourist destination.
A very genteel way of life that sadly does not seem to exist much anymore.
Beautiful!
Rebuild it!!!
Pôde mostrar o local do exílio?
Restauren.Hay material original?
when did the balcony get torn down? Further desecration by the Bolsheviks or the Nazi's in WW2?
My God..they should have fled their country ...to England..coz the tzar were relatives to the windsors...what a pity family..from elegant life to gruesome end of their lives...why were they murdered in the 1st place?
@rogergeorgeclark3672
2 жыл бұрын
Hatred... Lenin and the Bolsheviks were killers.
@andrewthornhill7042
2 жыл бұрын
@MANUEL VALDEZ The family in England initially agreed to take in their Romanov relatives, only for George V to recant on the advice of his ministers, who warned against he himself being ousted in favour of a Republic should the people discover he was housing an alleged dictator and tyrant. In Russia the IF were seen as a thorn in the side of the new Provisional Government who wanted to remove them in favour of a more streamlined, apartheid system of government. At first the family weren't to be killed; Nicholas was to be tried and imprisoned for crimes against the state while Alexandra and the children were to be resettled, perhaps in a convent. But the PG was slowly overtaken by the influence of Lenin, who (mostly through nursing a grudge over the killing of his brother) deemed the Romanovs a threat to national stability so ordered their wholescale destruction. Only the lucky ones (Dowager Empress, Tsar's sisters and families, Marie Pavlovna, Irina and her husband Felix Yusupov, etc) made it out of Russia to safety.
There life only for tea.. Breakfast and dinner.. So selfish..
@georgiesinclair6951
2 жыл бұрын
And you don't want fat ash?