She was born on June 10, 1897 in St. Petersburg. Tatiana was fair-skinned, with blue-gray eyes and beautiful auburn hair. It was said in the palace that she was the most beautiful of the four sisters and the most similar to her mother Alexandra, with whom she was very close. Moreover, it was rumored that she was also the Empress's favorite daughter.She was the most beautiful daughter of the last Russian tsar, Nikolai II Romanov. The beautiful beauty, Tatiana Romanov, was named after Pushkin's heroine of the novel "Eugene Onegin", because the Russian tsar wanted to have daughters Olga and Tatiana, according to the famous song. In the family, out of mercy, Tatjana was called Tanja, Tatjanočka and Tanuška.
From an early age, she had a close relationship with her 18-month-old sister Olga. She shared a room with her, her secrets and wishes. They were so inseparable that they were nicknamed the Great Couple.But, although they were both princesses, they were raised like their younger sisters Maria and Anastasia, with a certain dose of rigor. They slept on extra beds without pillows, bathed in cold water every morning, and were expected to knit items in their free time, which were then given to charity.The Romanov sisters did not have any contact with the outside world until the First World War, when Olga, Tatjana and mother Aleksandra completed a hospital course and cared for the wounded as Red Cross nurses. This was especially suitable for the beautiful Tatjana, who was practical from an early age and had a natural talent for leadership. She was born to lead, so her sisters gave her the nickname "Governor".
She was deeply religious and constantly, like her mother, read the Bible. Together with Olga, she even had her own regiment in which she was an honorary colonel; she loved to go to inspect the soldiers and had sympathy among them as well as among the wounded.Russian Tsar Nicholas II Romanov was atypically liberal for the ruler of that time. He showed that on several occasions, especially when the Serbian king Petar I Karadjordjevic asked for the hand of his Tatjana for his son and heir to the throne Alexander I.
"My daughters will choose for themselves when they will marry," he replied in writing, although arranged marriages were a normal occurrence at the time. But he noticed that Alexander could not take his eyes off his daughter when they came to visit.
The marriage negotiations were interrupted due to the outbreak of the First World War, but the couple allegedly exchanged letters until the tragic end of the Romanov family.For a while, Tatjana saw and corresponded with her cousin Dmitrij Jakovljević Malam, who was a member of the imperial army. He delighted her with an unexpected gift - a French bulldog, which she named Ortipo.After the outbreak of the Russian Revolution in 1917, the entire royal family was arrested and taken to Ekaterinburg. Although they were under all-day supervision, they lacked nothing. The Russian tsar was relieved of all duties and performed trifles like any other man - he chopped firewood, walked around the estate and hung out with his family.There are stories of how the Romanov sisters became close to the contestants, and talked to them during afternoon tea as acquaintances.The following year, 1918, the entire family was thrown into prison. On a summer evening, July 16 of that year, the emperor, Empress Alexandra and their five children were pulled out of their beds and taken to the basement of the Ipatjev house where they were, where they were thrown in chains.They were heartlessly executed at that place, together with the servants and the family doctor. Along with the beautiful Tatjana, her beloved dog Ortino, a French bulldog, was also killed.
After this, the myth arose that one child managed to survive and continue living in the interior of Russia. Hundreds of theories state that the Bolshevik death squad escaped either Anastasia or her son Alexei. The news of the execution reached the Thessaloniki front, where Alexander I said goodbye to the untried Yugoslav queen in tears.Their remains were exhumed in the early 1990s and buried in the royal tomb in St. Petersburg, and the whole family was canonized in 2000 by the Russian Orthodox Church.