tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640688807889489319.post6816534528809606962..comments2023-10-06T07:34:25.668-07:00Comments on Stay At Home Artist: Olga Nicolaievna by Anne Lloyd 2010Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640688807889489319.post-17572049373555886062010-08-24T08:53:13.833-07:002010-08-24T08:53:13.833-07:00Thank you for the link Matterhorn! I cannot help ...Thank you for the link Matterhorn! I cannot help but love such grace under fire. Olga's particular cross was to be acutely aware of the family's probably end, yet still do all that hope required. She did this faithfully and with vigour. Olga was the one who penned the answers to the fake " rescue letters" sent to the family as a trap while in Ekaterinburg. By the family's answers, one can sense they were suspicious of the letters dubious source. Yet hope requires one answers...this they did. And undoubtedly they spent nights, fully dressed in the roasting heat, waiting for the supposed "whistle signal" outside....but the only signal they ever heard, was the commandant's knock at the door, interrupting Dr. Botkins last letter.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640688807889489319.post-29859937866314941422010-08-23T21:25:38.737-07:002010-08-23T21:25:38.737-07:00I have linked, and quoted that beautiful letter. Y...I have linked, and quoted that beautiful letter. You are right to love these people!Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18230268418171628594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640688807889489319.post-2385699422595484532010-08-22T22:16:05.680-07:002010-08-22T22:16:05.680-07:00Thanks FedUpMom! I took your advice on that shadow...Thanks FedUpMom! I took your advice on that shadow! <br /><br />Olga couldn't be intimidated. She just had to be herself. I love that about her.<br /><br />Gilliard describes Olga's famous blunt manner so well when he states she spoke with,"that confident and disingenuous frankness which was all her own..." <br /><br />Indeed.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640688807889489319.post-62967309671222002072010-08-22T19:34:16.256-07:002010-08-22T19:34:16.256-07:00Anne -- she's fabulous! I love the stories to...Anne -- she's fabulous! I love the stories too. That's great that she was "quick-tempered and difficult" as a child -- bright kids can be like that.FedUpMomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00951858601020687242noreply@blogger.com