The last Tsar's younger sister at home, looking very elegant and retiring; she was neither. Rather, she was kind, very down to earth, and a talented artist herself - the sale of her watercolors would later help sustain her immediate family in exile. Four years before this portrait was painted, she'd been pushed/stumbled into a marriage which was the great mistake of her life. (It was a marriage that would also remain unconsummated; her husband, Duke Peter of Oldenburg, was almost certainly…
Trudy Darman
