Happy 116th Birthday to my favorite Grand duchess Maria Nikolaevna! Here she is every year of her life edited by me. "A happy day: the Lord sent us a third daughter Maria, who was safely born at 12:10! Alix hardly slept all night, and towards the morning the pains got stronger Thank God it was all over quite quickly! My darling felt well all day and fed the baby herself. Mama arrived from Gatchina at 4 o'clock. The immediate family gathered in church for a Te Deum Had tea with Mama, wrote telegrams and went through the unbearable papers. I only managed to get out into the fresh air after dinner the evening was marvelous."
-Tsar Nicholas' diary on the birth of his third daughter Grand duchess Maria Nikolaevna.
-Tsar Nicholas' diary on the birth of his third daughter Grand duchess Maria Nikolaevna.