Paris-Moscou aller et retour ... Pictures & Paintings of Russian Tsars
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and now Nicolas 2 again...
First, a little surprise: a picture of Nicolas 2 as a young tsarevitch ,november 1890, on the Cheops Pyramyd during a journey to Egypt (received by ... Khédive Ismail Pacha), :
(he looks like a young Charlie chaplin)
and here his host, Ismail Pacha:
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Now let return to the axis France-Russia; Nicolas 2 soon after his access to the throne went in France (1896) with his wife. (some interesting pictures on the begenning of the thread) . Here the tsarine (as said the french...) put the first stone of the bridge dedicated to Alexandre III (and finished in 1900, just before an other Exhibition)
Le Triomphe de la Paix ou La visite du Tsar Marche Franco-russe. (marche is a particular rythm for music)
crée par Marius RICHARD à la SCALA (created by the popular singer Marius Richard at the Scala witch is not the italian Opera house but a little parisian theatre to day not existing anymore) . Paroles de Léo LELIEVRE (words of L.L.) Musique de Emile SPENCER (anybody knows him ?)
(1er verse)
Puisque le Tsar vient à Paris,
Mes amis,
Dans les plis
De notre drapeau tricolore
Luit la nouvelle aurore.
Car le Tsar apporte aux français
Les bienfaits
De la Paix;
Dont notre beau pays s'honore
Comme un glorieux succès!
Notre France est prête.
Et fait retentir ses bravos.
La bonne tempête
Met des frissons
Dans les cerveaux.
En ce vibrant jour de fête
Nous marchons à la conquête.
Oh! oh! Mêlons nos drapeaux!
De Cronstadt et Toulon,
Le Tsar sans façon,
Vient bénir l'Union!
(refrain)
Dans cette Sainte Alliance,
O Russie! ô noble France
Unissons notre vaillance
Et gardons la bonne espérance!
Car le Tsar et la Tsarine,
Font jaillir l'heure divine
Ou le rêve s'achemine
Dans la Paix, qui donne au coeur
Le vrai bonheur!
(to be noted that the historical Sainte Alliance - Holly Alliance - was created quite 90 years before by Alexandre 1rst to destroy the power of Napoléon 1)
(2d verse)
La Tsarine au cœur enchanté,
Sans fierté,
Par bonté,
Vient saluer la Parisienne
En noble souveraine.
Et tous les coeurs enthousiasmés,
Enflammés,
Sont charmés
Voyant ces sentiments de reine
-Trésors inestimés-
Sa chère visite
Chez nous fait naître des héros.
Acclamons sa suite
Par des chants sublimes et beaux!
C'est pour nous un grand mérite,
Toute la France palpite!
Oh! oh! oh!
Mélons nos drapeaux!
C'est le jour souhaité
De félicité
Et de Fraternité!
(I am unable to traduce and give an idea of the numerous lapses in taste of the text !)
(refrain)
(3rd verse)
L'Union jamais ne périra,
Grandira,
Et pourra
Nous rendre, en une heure prochaine,
L'Alsace et la Lorraine.
Notre rêve peut s'accomplir
Sans faiblir,
Abolir
La tyrannique et lourde chaîne
Dans le juste avenir!
Et la Paix entière
Brillera dans les jours nouveaux;
Sans aimer la guerre,
Nous voulons avoir nos hameaux
S'il le faut, les peuples frères
Marcheront vers les frontières
Oh! oh! oh!
Planter nos drapeaux!...
Félix Faure et le Tsar
Unis sans retard,
Donneront le départ!...
(to be noted here the presence of a claim to the restitution of 2 territories L'Alsace et la Lorraine, lost at the end of the 1870's german-french war ... the alliance with the tsar, said the text , gives us the possibility of a return of these lands to France .....!) (La tyrannique et lourde chaîne is the tribute (millions of francs-or) that France had to pay to Germany... (to be noted also that the first verse asks to the Peace and the last one to a war for the lost territories ... )
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fortunately we have other records of the visit; the first one is a vignette later on distributed by a firm (chocolates):
the second is a card presented to the guests of the french President, with a design recording all the stages of the imperial visit:
Now a more serious and official record, a painting of Jean-Baptiste-Edouard Detaille (1848-1912) : Visite officielle du Tsar Nicolas II en France en 1896. Revue passée à Châlon-sur-Marne par le Président Félix Faure, le Tsar et la Tsarine, le 9 octobre 1896
and a medal:
Cherbourg ( a french harbour on the Normandie coast) Paris (with the name of Alexandre 3 given to the bridge in construction) and Chàlons (were there was a huge military camp) were the three stages of this very important visit.
In 1898, the french President (Félix Faure) went to St Petersburg to continue the alliance, and here is an other popular design of this journey:
on this occasion some french newspapers edited this picture of Nicolas 2 (NOT EXACTLY the good one for the french people) :
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1901: Nicolas 2 and his wife returned to Paris; the stages of the visit will be Dunkerque (a french harbour in Normandie) with a revue of the french marine ; Paris (where an avenue will be named with the name of the imperial guest) Compiègne (a rest, theater, dinner, etc....) Reims (to visit the cathedral) and Betheny (see the painting of Dawant at the begenning of the thread of the militaries grandes manoeuvres) .
Here is a popular design distributed by a firm (Great Stores of Le Bon Marché) during and after the visit, to help french people in understand the reason of the visit (again and again, l'alliance franco-russe):
And now the bridge Alexandre 3, finished (1900):
Many painters had painted this marvellous bridge, but here is the work of a rather young russian painter, Nadejda Pastoukhova :
and a very good photography of the same bridge:
And now the imperial pair arriving in Compiègne (were they rest, visit the park and the palace, assist theatre performances (Edmond Rostand, Alfred de Musset) , and the christening of the grand-son of the marquis de Montebello, former ambassadeur de France à Saint-Pétersbourg, friend of Nicolas 2. The emperor was the godfather. ):
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and now some documents:
for french-speaking persons, a PDF document about the compiègne days in 1901:
http://www.musee-chateau-compiegne.fr/documents/dp_nicolas.pdf
1 photography of uncertain date (I think 1901 because it has been shot near bridge Alexandre 3) :
The next one could have been designed just after the death of Alexandre 3, not particularly for an imperial visit :
but this one, quite certainly, for the 1896 visit:
three other one of incomprensible datation : the first one (1907?) from a french site:
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