Alexander Palace Forum
Discussions about Other Imperial Palaces => Other Palaces => Topic started by: Condecontessa on March 21, 2008, 01:22:19 PM
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I found this pic of a house with Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich and Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna sitting in front of it. My question is if this is the house that Alexander III bought in Denmark?
(http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg182/divine1grace/1889denmark.jpg)
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The cottage or Russian izba was not bought but built in the park around Fredernsborg.
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And what happened to it?
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Not sure. Hopefully it's still standing. I just looked carefully at the pic. I think I see their nannines and those boys standing might be their servants because of the way they're dressed.
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If ti remained it would I assume have belonged to someone in the Imperial Family. Do we know who ended up with it?
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I don't think it was in the family when the revolution broke up, otherwise GD Olga Alexandrova wouldn't have gone to live with her mother at Hividore..
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That's true. Wonder who ended up with it, looks rather nice. Shame they sold their properties abroad as things turned out.
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House for sale in Denmark tooday. www.danbolig.dk/soegbolig/resultatsider/vis+bolig.htm?probertyid=2023?brokerid=083
Adress for the house are Kejserensvej 1
3480 Fredensborg
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sorry.....www.danbolig.dk/soegbolig/resultatsider/vis+bolig.htm?probertyid=2023&brokerid=083
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http://www.danbolig.dk/SoegBolig/Resultatsider/Vis+bolig.htm?brokerid=083&propertyid=2023&address=Kejserensvej%201#Kejserensvej%201
Villa Plan
http://extcom.esoft.dk/extern/kunder/danbolig/fremvisning2/?login=083&sagsnr=2023&side=flerefotos&UTMX=712025&UTMY=6209296&MapURL=http%3a%2f%2ffolia.maptoweb.dk%2fDanboligClient%2fMaps.aspx%3fStreetName%3dKejserensvej%26HouseNo%3d1%26PostalID%3d3480%26Placename%3dFredensborg%26X%3d712025%26Y%3d6209296%26directionOn%3d0%26country%3ddk&RouteURL=http%3a%2f%2ffolia.maptoweb.dk%2fDanboligClient%2fMaps.aspx%3fStreetName%3dKejserensvej%26HouseNo%3d1%26PostalID%3d3480%26Placename%3dFredensborg%26X%3d712025%26Y%3d6209296%26directionOn%3d1%26country%3ddk
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From another web page
http://kkinst1.inforce.dk/sw16123.asp (http://kkinst1.inforce.dk/sw16123.asp)
Translated by Google it says:
"The Emperor's Villa," The Emperor's Road 1, was bought by Tsar Alexander III in 1885. The house was owned by the district bailiff Andreas Hjorth Grove, who had expected to live here in his retirement, but he had nødtvunget sell his house in zaren for 25,000 dollars. It was part of the tsarist dying and was sold to photographer Otto Agger Holm."'
If anyone can translate the danish more accurately, please help.
BobG
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This website can be translated in four seconds on Google Translate....Web. Paste the URL in the Web field and choose Danish to English. Click. The entire webpage will be translated in four seconds, including all of the additional pages.
But you probably are already aware of Google Translate site.
Douglas
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Here you can see The Kejserens Villa in Fredensborg: http://www.mieks.com/research/danpalaces-kv.html (http://www.mieks.com/research/danpalaces-kv.html). I do not believe it is the same house as on the first photo, but it looks a bit alike.
The Kejserens Villa is one of the "palaces" depicted on one of the Fabergé Imperial Easter Eggs, the Danish Palaces Egg.
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The cottage in the picture is the "Svenske Villa" (the Swedish Villa) near the Bernstorff summer Palace, just north of Copenhagen.
The villas was originally build as the Swedish pavillion for the "Store Nordiske Landbrugs- og Industriudstilling" (The Great Nordic Exhibition for Agriculture and Industry) in 1888, but was bought by Queen Louise and transported to the park at Bernstorff. The building still exists and is now an exhibition space for local artists. You can see more images of it at the website http://www.svenskevilla.dk/
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Hi everyone.
I'm new in this forum and the happy owner of Alexander III's villa in Fredensborg.
Today it's called: The Emperors villa.
You can view the house, restoration etc at: www.kejserensvilla.com
Sincerly
Henrik Christensen
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Hi everyone.
I'm new in this forum and the happy owner of Alexander III's villa in Fredensborg.
Today it's called: The Emperors villa.
You can view the house, restoration etc at: www.kejserensvilla.com
Sincerly
Henrik Christensen
Det er s'gu et dejligt hus!
Very cool and very interesting to see you taking such good care of this interesting legacy.
Now, as you know the reactionary Alexander III was much more liberal abroad, including in his Nordic realm Finland, not at least thanks to Maria Fyodorovna. If you don't know it, I recommend the Swedish-language Finnish book Kejsaren i skärgården. Den ryska tsarfamiljens sommarvistelser i Finland by Jorma and Päivi Tuomi-Nikula for many fun anecdotes about your house patron in a Nordic environment. A summary can be found here: http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=14873.0
(http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=14873.0)
Suggestion for poetry in your bathroom, illustrating how the "pro-Nordic image" of the Romanovs went down the drain (!) in Nicholas II's time:
Verse from Norwegian republican and Scandinavist Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's poem Ved modtagelsen av sidste post fra Finland (At the Reception of the Latest Post from Finland) from 1903, about NII's role in the Russification of Finland:
Men han som et folk henretter,
(det lykkes dog ingensinde!)
er født af en nordisk kvinde,
og leged' på danske sletter.
Å Danmark, hvis bøddelen kommer,
da vær ham en folke-sund dommer:
Forbyd ham at træde på jorden;
thi den er de fries i Norden!
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But he who is executing a people,
(though it will never succeed!)
was born to a Nordic woman,
and once played on Danish plains.
Oh Denmark, if the henchman comes,
then be a national-sound judge of him:
Deny him to step on the earth;
because in the North it belongs to the free!
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Hi Превед.
I will get a copy of that book and read it. Thank you.
Sincerly
Henrik Christensen