Much of the Romanov family’s enter­tain­ment came from their fas­ci­na­tion with Brown­ie cam­eras. This is also the rea­son we have so many pho­tographs of them—they took a lot of themselves. 

Brown­ie cam­eras (which still exist!) are cel­e­brat­ing one hun­dred and four­teen years in exis­tence. http://bit.ly/1qHkawj