Grand Duchess Tatiana of Russia
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Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna (1897-1918)
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanova) (In Russian Великая Княжна Татьяна Николаевна) (June 10, 1897 - July 17, 1918) was the second daughter of Nicholas II of Russia and Alexandra of Hesse. She was a younger sister of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia. She was an older sister of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia and Tsarevich Alexei of Russia.
Tatiana was reserved, fashionable and had the posture and attitude of a princess.She was arguably the most beautiful of all the sisters and most liked by men. She was twenty-one when she was murdered with her family in Ekaterinburg.
In 2001, she and her family were canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church.