15. Romanov Daughters
Once girls, the Romanov daughter grew into young women by the time the war broke out. This picture of Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia sitting on a French sofa in 1916 shows them only two years before their eventual demise. Draped in matching dresses and pearls, these girls could hardly imagine that their lives would end within two years of this image. In the background, one can make out an organ, an instrument all four ladies knew how to play. The year after this photo, the country would fall into the chaos of the 1917 Revolution. The family would have to leave the palace and its trappings for their safety, but the story wouldn’t end there.