Summary:

– Exhibit features Romanov photos, letters and mementos from the 20th century.

– Princess Janet’s Oklahoma ties helped establish OU’s Romanoff Center .

– Translated diaries reveal the family’s lives during revolution and exile.

NORMAN — A new exhibit at the University of Oklahoma is shedding light on a lost era of Russian nobility – with the help of a local connection.

“Russia’s Romanovs in War, Revolution, and Exile, 1916-2016: Stories from a Family Archive” is open for free to the public through February at the Bizzell Memorial Library’s first-floor exhibition space.

Featuring items such as photographs, letters and mementos, many of which have never been publicly shown before, the exhibit highlights the embattled lives of the prominent Romanoff family during and af

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