Alexander Palace Forum
Discussions about the Imperial Family and European Royalty => Marie Feodorovna => Topic started by: Svetabel on May 31, 2010, 11:14:19 PM
-
Here's Part III.
Please don't post the previously posted images unless they are bigger.
-
There is an exhibition of Marie Feodorovna in Etelä-Karjalan museo (south karelia museum) Lappeenranta, Finland in May 9 - August 29.
The exhibition is done in co-operation with these international museums: "Pavlovsk palace museum" and "Amelienborg royal museum in Copenhagen".
The museum is in the fortress of Lappeenranta.
It's office hours are:
summer 7.6.-22.8.2010 :
mon-fri 10-18, san-sat 11-17
Street address:
Kristiinankatu 15, 53900 Lappeenranta (Fortress area)
Mailing address:
South Karelia Museum,
P.O.Box 239, 53101 Lappeenranta
Further information :
tel: +358 5 616 2255, +358 5 616 2261
Fax: +358 5 616 2911
e-mail: museot(at)lappeenranta.fi
Here are some links in english:
about the museum
http://www.lappeenranta.fi/?deptid=13346
about the exhibiton
http://www.lappeenranta.fi/?DeptID=18964
p.s. they've also published a book about the exhibition called
"prinsessa dagmar keisarinna Maria Fjodorovna - princess Dagmar Empress Marie Feodorovna".
p.p.s. sorry for my bad bad english
-
Finally something new (or at least NOT so repeated) to add
(http://i46.tinypic.com/288mn7s.jpg)
-
Looks like mug shorts. I wonder if she used it for a passport ? (she only needed one after she went in exile inn Denmark).
-
i doubt so. That s just an "artsy" way to take pictures, thats all (There s also of Alexander III and Alexander II)
-
Yes I agree with you. However I wonder what photo she put on her Danish passport when she went on exile. :-\
-
I don't think that sher used those photos for any passport, she is very young on them for say that she could use them on her time of exhile, thanks for posting, they're totally new for me
-
Yes. Maybe those she took in Hvidore with Alix.
-
I hope bigger versions of each picture will be seen someday.
Her gowns (the dressmaker's surname was not mentioned in the website where I found these)
(http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq126/olga_maria1993/gowns%20MARIA%20FEODOROVNA/th_86b2d9b42fb3.jpg) (http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq126/olga_maria1993/gowns%20MARIA%20FEODOROVNA/86b2d9b42fb3.jpg) (http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq126/olga_maria1993/gowns%20MARIA%20FEODOROVNA/th_95d1b0e0d46f.jpg) (http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq126/olga_maria1993/gowns%20MARIA%20FEODOROVNA/95d1b0e0d46f.jpg)
detail of the 2nd one
(http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq126/olga_maria1993/gowns%20MARIA%20FEODOROVNA/th_5aa1e00c981c.jpg) (http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq126/olga_maria1993/gowns%20MARIA%20FEODOROVNA/5aa1e00c981c.jpg)
-
if im not wrong those already where posted like twice in the other topic.
A nice brooch of Marie and Alexander
(http://i50.tinypic.com/2n9hmaw.jpg)
-
Lovely brooch. Who owns it now ?
-
It's a very beautiful one! Was it made for commemorate AIII's death? (For the year it has written below) or was a simply coincidence?
-
i have no idea. I will ask to my friend who has that book (or cataloge)
-
I think it's from the book Jewels of the Tsars by Prince Michael of Greece
-
Or maybe from the catalogue of the Amalienborg Palace ? I think I will go check. ;)
-
Can someone decipher what's writen in this letter?
(http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq126/olga_maria1993/gowns%20MARIA%20FEODOROVNA/th_frommf.jpg) (http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq126/olga_maria1993/gowns%20MARIA%20FEODOROVNA/frommf.jpg)
I find this labeled as Dagmar's letter but to whom...not mentioned.
...and her spectacular drawings:
(http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq126/olga_maria1993/gowns%20MARIA%20FEODOROVNA/th_d7dc945c.jpg) (http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq126/olga_maria1993/gowns%20MARIA%20FEODOROVNA/d7dc945c.jpg) (http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq126/olga_maria1993/gowns%20MARIA%20FEODOROVNA/th_1.jpg) (http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq126/olga_maria1993/gowns%20MARIA%20FEODOROVNA/1.jpg)
-
Can someone decipher what's writen in this letter?
(http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq126/olga_maria1993/gowns%20MARIA%20FEODOROVNA/th_frommf.jpg) (http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq126/olga_maria1993/gowns%20MARIA%20FEODOROVNA/frommf.jpg)
The text is half-Russian, half-French.
The Russian is:
"My sweet dear Nicky! Hope you'll be glad with this painting as if it's your old friend..."
-
Did Minny painted the lady on the letter ? She is quite good. ;)
-
Well, Marie Feodorovna was a good painter, there are some paintings made by her that are very good.
-
You can check two paintings made by Marie Feodorovna on the reply number 57 of the thread of MF's portraits and paintings...
-
About the brooch of reply #8, I found it in other place and the caption that it had was the next:
Brooch in the form of royal crown with the portraits of Emperor Alexander III and Empress Maria Feodorovna, born Princess of Denmark Dagmar. Gift of Queen Louise, the wife of Frederick VIII on the occasion of the coronation of Alexander III. 1883. Company Bolin family. Gold, silver, diamonds
-
I think the Bolin company is in Sweden !
-
They are but they were in Russia at their peak:
"Wilhelm Bolin, like his father, kept his Swedish citizenship. In 1904 he purchased a property in the south of Sweden which he visited each summer together with his family. Showing foresight, he opened a branch office in Bad Homburg in Germany in 1912 - a spa visited by the Tsar and his family. At the outbreak of World War I a great deal of stock remained in Germany. Taking advantage of his Swedish nationality, Wilhelm Bolin, whose Russian belongings and assets were confiscated by the Bolsheviks, transferred his German stock to Stockholm and opened a shop there in 1916. The firm exists today as Jewelers and Silversmiths to HM King Carl XVI Gustav.
It is deeply regrettable that none of the archives of the Bolin firm have, as yet, been found. A number of invoices from Bolin to the Imperial Court have been discovered in the Imperial Archives in St. Petersburg. There are certainly many more and research has been initiated to locate both them and Bolin's own records."
-
Hi,
And Queen Louise was a Swedish princess, so she would certainly like to honour her former countryman's business...
I find it very nice to think that Louise would send a kind gift to Dagmar. We always hear that the Danish family didn't always react warmly to Louise, but here we have a lovely gesture between the two....
Larry
-
I think Bolin would also had create something for Marie Paulovna the younger, a Russian Grand Duchess who married into Sweden. It is shrewd that Bolin kept his Swedish nationality, otherwise his firm would suffer the same fate as Faberage.
-
Interesting information about Bolin, certainly I didn't know anything about that.
About the other drawings (the tree and the other) I think she did also them, I think that Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna inherited of her the talent of being a good drawer... her watercolors are lovely
-
Yes. Olga seemed to be only one to have that talent.
-
Found those as Marie's... ? ? ? ?
(http://i686.photobucket.com/albums/vv226/KaiserinAlzbeta/VictorianLadies/MFThings.jpg)
-
To be worn in the opera...Very glam indeed !
-
Maria
(http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt94/KaiserinCharlotte/RoyalFamilies/MariaCoin.jpg)
And with family
(http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt94/KaiserinCharlotte/RoyalFamilies/MariaCoin2.jpg)
-
Maria
Great Coins! Do you own them? Thank you for sharing them here...
-
Re Reply # 31: Actually a commemorative medal/medallion, as opposed to an offical government-issued "coin of the realm" per se, as it bears no monetary exchange value. Regards, AP.
-
Except collectability of course. ;)
-
Absolutely! Medals/medallions can be splendid miniature works of art in their own right. Regards, AP.
-
Can someone help me, where can I fin d this pic in a clearer version?Clearer and bigger:STry to made it with photoshop but it's terrible:S
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Niki2.jpg
-
This photo is in many books !
-
Re Reply # 31: Actually a commemorative medal/medallion, as opposed to an offical government-issued "coin of the realm" per se, as it bears no monetary exchange value. Regards, AP.
I would just like to ass that according to my information these meddals were made to commemorate the miraculous survival of the Imperial family after 1888 Borki train disaster.
-
This photo is in many books !
And how this incredible reply helps Countess Adrienn Bellér ? ...If you know WHAT book exactly, mention it, but "This photo is in many books !" doesn't add any appreciated info to the poster who asked for the picture. If you don't know and are not going to post the bigger version - better keep silence.
Can someone help me, where can I fin d this pic in a clearer version?Clearer and bigger:STry to made it with photoshop but it's terrible:S
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Niki2.jpg
Here it is:
(http://www.picatom.com/1i/Tsesarevna%20Maria%20Fedorovna_sonGeorgiy_1872-1-th.JPG) (http://www.picatom.com/1i/Tsesarevna%20Maria%20Fedorovna_sonGeorgiy_1872-1.html)
-
I have one with Alix in the same postion with Eddy, so is one of Lovisa with Christian...
-
and Marie of Denmark with Aage. It was a common mother- child pose.
-
I don't think so. Alix pose was the best selling of the cdvs in Britian and aboard. I think the others copy it (no doubt they did it in private before).
-
I ve seen pictures of common people posing like that. Maybe Alix did that pose popular but there s no doubt it was a common a popular pose back in those years.,
-
It could be a pose that Alix made popular. The huge success of that particular card may contribute to that. You don't see QV playing with her children so intimately.
-
handtinted image of Marie. 1883
(http://i47.tinypic.com/244un9d.jpg)
-
Was the card sold in Russia ?
-
For commemorate MF's death
(http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt94/KaiserinCharlotte/RoyalFamilies/MaFe.gif)
(http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt94/KaiserinCharlotte/RoyalFamilies/MaFe2.gif)
-
Eric, i supppose so since the image was found in a russian webpage.
-
(http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/ad313/Isana1988/4HSH4_AM0966-208-2.jpg)
With lots of family members
-
Queen Alexandra & Empress Marie on the balcony at Hvidoere
(http://inlinethumb08.webshots.com/19207/2646474190102753164S600x600Q85.jpg) (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2646474190102753164FQdCKW)
1916 - with her granddaughter Irene
(http://inlinethumb10.webshots.com/44745/2365928110102753164S600x600Q85.jpg) (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2365928110102753164GVYgTR)
-
one more...a large version of this portrait taken in 1899
(http://inlinethumb07.webshots.com/45446/2445959770102753164S600x600Q85.jpg) (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2445959770102753164xWKdqk)
-
Wiii! new picturees! thank you!
BTW: Irene was Marie GREAT grandaughter ;-)
-
Was that an imperial emblem that Minny wore in her little brooch ?
-
Wiii! new picturees! thank you!
BTW: Irene was Marie GREAT grandaughter ;-)
Wasn't Irene (Irina) Xenia's daughter? Thereby Marie's grand-daughter? Are we speaking of a different Irene? Was Irina Alexandrovna's daughter named Irene also?
-
yes, Irina Alexandrovna's daughter was also Irene.
-
Yup and she was born in 1915, so this picture is of Maria and her great grand daughter ;-)
BTW that picture is bad labeled. It was taken in 1915 since Irene was born in march 1915 and she looks still like a little baby in that pic.
-
Did Dagmar bonded with this Irina ?
-
This is by far the largest version if ve found of this picture
(http://i46.tinypic.com/jqq548.jpg)
XL
http://i46.tinypic.com/jqq548.jpg
-
Was this taken in Spala (Poland) ?
-
This is by far the largest version if ve found of this picture
http://i46.tinypic.com/jqq548.jpg
a lovely quality image. Thank you for sharing it According to my information this was taken not long before Alexander III death in late August 1894 at Bielovezh and the people in it are:
sitting on the ground left to right: Grand duke george, nicholas II, pirnce Nicholas of Greece, Grand duchess Olga, Grand Duke Michael. Alexander II is seated behind Grand Duchess Olga and Empress Marie is sitting next to Alexander
-
Thanks for the info. Yes Miechen was not there...
-
pictures of mariya feodorvna in spala. greek queen olga is also there. the picture was taken in approx. 1890
(http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww199/vitavioletta/mariya-feodorona-spala-1.jpg)
(http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww199/vitavioletta/mariya-feodorona-spala-2.jpg)
-
i posted those pictures without watermark (and bigger )in the other topic of Maria. I had no idea that Olga of greece was there!
-
Queen Olga was not only close to Dagmar, but also her sister Thyra as well.
-
And don't forget Alexandra either!
-
i think mext to mariya feodorovna there is her sister thyra and next to thyra is olga of greece
-
Queen Olga is close to Thyra because she was easy to get along with, Dagmar because she was close to her homeland (Russia). I think Alexandra was closer to her brother George I than to his wife (just by comparison only). ;)
-
i think mext to mariya feodorovna there is her sister thyra and next to thyra is olga of greece
I don't want to be rude but are you sure, violetta?
I have much bigger version of that picture and honestly I can't see Thyra there or Olga of Greece neither.
-
I cant see Thyra either.
Here s the large and unmarked version i posted
http://i43.tinypic.com/358o1ad.jpg
and here s the enlargament of the ladies
(http://i31.tinypic.com/2rp4qro.jpg)
No Thyra whatsoever.
-
Thyra wasn't there. I doubt Thyra even visited Finland or Poland !
-
and another one of Alexandra and Dagmar
(http://inlinethumb35.webshots.com/46114/2178513760102753164S600x600Q85.jpg) (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2178513760102753164TAmoDz)
-
An xl version of this image
(http://i27.tinypic.com/dffz1h.jpg)
XL
http://i27.tinypic.com/dffz1h.jpg
-
That was on the Polar Star ?
-
An xl version of this image
XL
http://i27.tinypic.com/dffz1h.jpg
An excellent image. Thank you very much for sharing it. I don't recall seeing this one before. It looks like it was taken in the late 1880s?
-
That was on the Polar Star ?
That photo is not on the Polar Star. It appears to be one of the paddle yachts....possibly the yacht "Power".
-
An xl version of this image
XL
http://i27.tinypic.com/dffz1h.jpg
An excellent image. Thank you very much for sharing it. I don't recall seeing this one before. It looks like it was taken in the late 1880s?
It's the time of Waldemar's marriage to Marie Orleans, 1885 or 1886 year.
-
Who owns "Power" ? A Danish or Russian ship ?
-
That was on the Polar Star ?
That photo is not on the Polar Star. It appears to be one of the paddle yachts....possibly the yacht "Power".
Do you mean "Derzhava", yacht of Alexander III ?
-
a nice big version of this photo of Dagmar taken in 1866
(http://inlinethumb10.webshots.com/41865/2044802350102753164S600x600Q85.jpg) (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2044802350102753164hlPmVl)
-
its bigger? cause it seems to have the same or even lower size than this one from the GARF
http://i27.tinypic.com/ngq814.jpg
Better quality tho, i must say
-
its bigger? cause it seems to have the same or even lower size than this one from the GARF
Better quality tho, i must say
Oh.....I suppose I should have said I hoped this one would at least print better, and it doesn't come from the GARF site...
-
Obviously it doesnt come from the GARF but from a book and the quality is excellent, thanks but its smaller than the one from the GARF,. Pity =/
-
Obviously it doesnt come from the GARF but from a book and the quality is excellent, thanks but its smaller than the one from the GARF,. Pity =/
oh well, I'm not an expert with these things.
-
Dont worry. I was expecting to see a bigger version of that one with that awesome Quality...=(
-
A lovely dress :-)
(http://i686.photobucket.com/albums/vv226/KaiserinAlzbeta/Queens/DressAngeli.jpg)
-
are you saying its the same dress? cause it isnt.
-
Dont worry. I was expecting to see a bigger version of that one with that awesome Quality...=(
The original image was postcard sized. When you click through to the webshots image you'll see it at 3 times the size which will mean it should print at the same quality as the original.
-
No, definitively isn't the same dress. I found it as I posted it but I was wondering if it really belonged her (was the original) or a simple copy... Does anybody know?
-
No, definitively isn't the same dress. I found it as I posted it but I was wondering if it really belonged her (was the original) or a simple copy... Does anybody know?
Yes it does belong to her. I've seen it on other threads and forums about MF. There are quite a lot of MF dresses still in existance, enough to do an exhibition if they wanted to.
-
As I say always Kathy, thank you very, very much for that photo and the information about the dress, too!
A lovely dress :-)
http://i686.photobucket.com/albums/vv226/KaiserinAlzbeta/Queens/DressAngeli.jpg
Thank you very, very much for this, Mrs. Plyuschenko!!! : D The dress looks very pretty; I love it!
At first glance, I thought it was really the dress she wore on that beautiful portrait. But upon scrutinizing more, it isn't (the dress on the portrait has less lace-works (?) on the skirt, while on the sleeves, there are more lace-works ).
-
Thanks for the confirmation Kathy! I wonder if that dress was the one she used while she posed for the portrait or had one that was totally like in the painting? Or perhaps Angeli changed it a bit
-
(http://www.picatom.com/1i/Tsesarevna%20Maria%20Fedorovna_sonGeorgiy_1872-1-th.JPG) (http://www.picatom.com/1i/Tsesarevna%20Maria%20Fedorovna_sonGeorgiy_1872-1.html)
One more from the same session:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v433/feomarie/Rarefind/TsesarevnaMariaFedorovna_sonNichola.jpg)
-
MF with sister Alix walking in the streets of Copenhagen with suite
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/kmerov/Dagmar/MFAlixKBH.jpg)
-
Who was the man behind Alix ? Prince Hans ?
-
No, it's Prince George Shervashidze, a member of MF's suite.
-
Thanks...I am trying to get the year of the photo.
-
Thanks...I am trying to get the year of the photo.
You are welcome, I don't have the year, so it's anybodies guess.
-
MF and Queen Lovisa from a state visit by Frederik VIII and Lovisa.
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/kmerov/Dagmar/th_MFstatevisitFrederikVIII.jpg) (http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/kmerov/Dagmar/MFstatevisitFrederikVIII.jpg)
Nicky, MF, Alix and Lovisa and other members of the Imperial and Royal families of Russia and Denmark.
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/kmerov/Dagmar/1909D.jpg)
-
Would love to see the photo below in bigger form. I might see more royals there...
-
A little bigger. I think one of Frederik VIII's daughters is between MF and Alix.
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/kmerov/Dagmar/th_1909D.jpg) (http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/kmerov/Dagmar/1909D.jpg)
-
Yes I think so. ;)
-
Hi everyone. I can't seem to see pictures of Marie after 1918, or right before she died. Does anyone have these to post? Thanks!
-
There are tons of pictures of Marie Feodorovna in exile, just go thru the threads on this board dedicated to her and I'm sure you will find them.
But here a two pictures.
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/kmerov/Dagmar/olddagm.jpg)
MF with Queen Olga of Greece at Hvidøre.
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/kmerov/Dagmar/dgolgag.jpg)
-
Thank you very much!
-
If you think about it and you start to analyse the photograph of Maria Feodorovna with Lovisa and her brother Frederick VIII in it, you could see the symbolic behind the strained relation between Maria and her sister-inlaw Lovisa. The both sit in the corner of the tribune (far apart) both looking in a other direction (Lovisa looking to the right and MF looking to the left). Frederick VIII looks at his wife - but stands closer to his sister - he is really caught in the middle. Funny it so typically shows the family-relation. Thank you for the great pictures kmerov!
-
You noticed the body language, in which royals now being observed for inner feelings. I think Charles & Diana was the first royal to be publically analazed by their body language.
-
1896 Empress Marie & Xenia fishing at Gatchina
(http://inlinethumb61.webshots.com/26940/2383133090102753164S600x600Q85.jpg) (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2383133090102753164CjUQtg)
-
Is that her dog or Xenia's
-
This will seem an incredibly random topic/thought, but I'm working on a Romanov novel project and it has come up in my outline, so I thought I'd ask.
I'm wondering if Maria Feodorovna ever learned to ride horseback - either any sources/books anything that anyone has read or simply your opinions on whether and what she would have learned :) Thanks!
-
Yes Minny learned to ride and rode quite well although not into it as much as her sister Alix did. There are many photos of her on a horse or in riding gear.
-
MF with Queen Olga of Greece at Hvidøre.
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/kmerov/Dagmar/dgolgag.jpg)
[/quote]
I wonder if this picture was from the visit where a very small Prince Philip accompanied his grandmother.
-
If so then Philip should have a photo too. However never saw one with them both. :)
-
If so then Philip should have a photo too. However never saw one with them both. :)
In her memoirs Olga Alexandrovna vividly remembered her aunts visit with Prince Philip in tow.So pic or not it defintely took place!
-
(http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/1996/sudbaimpb.jpg) (http://img189.imageshack.us/i/sudbaimpb.jpg/)
-
A new book ? This is a rare picture. However she is shown here wearing her favouite single strand pearl choker with large drop pearl. I wonder if she took it out with her.
-
A new book ? This is a rare picture. However she is shown here wearing her favouite single strand pearl choker with large drop pearl. I wonder if she took it out with her.
in the book kejserinde dagmar, ther are listed the jewels which HIM took out of russia, and where later opend in precens of grand duchess xenia. under item 6 there is mentioned a necklace of 144 pearls (small) with large pearl drop - it was sold to lord lascelles - so may this is the above mentioned necklace....
she take some more "day-wear" jewels with her to kiev, but also the large pearl choker with sapphire which were later sold to QM, so it is possible, that she take this with her.
-
That choker was shown in Leslie Fields book and a picture of Princess Anne wearing it. The necklace sold to Lord Lascelles wasnot shown again. It seems to be one of her favourite necklace.
-
What was Dowager Marie Feodorovna's reaction the the terrible tragedy at Khodinsky Field during Nicholas II's coronation celebration?
Did she encourage the Royal couple to attend the balls and other celebrations as the carts carried away the dead and wounded?
AGRBear
-
She did not attend that ball. She spent time visiting hospitals. Her actions were noticed.
-
She did not attend that ball. She spent time visiting hospitals. Her actions were noticed.
You are correct about Marie at this event. N&A also did not want to attend but were persuaded by their officals and relatives that the French would be mortally offended if they did not attend. Poltically it was the first time the French alliance was to be celebrated in Russia and put Nicholas in a tricky situation which did not work out well.
-
I think Minny would have offered contrary advice. Sandro and others were against it, so not all relatives (mainly the Uncles (Serge, Alexis & Vladimir))were for it.
-
Woohoo!!
A new (or at least not so repeated) image of Marie!
(http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/1930/9018186.jpg) (http://img687.imageshack.us/i/9018186.jpg/)
-
THis pic is new for me. It's very sweet and expressive.
RealAnastasia.
-
MF, Alix and Prince Hans of Glücksburg at Hvidøre in 1908.
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/kmerov/Dagmar/MFAlixHansHvidre.jpg)
-
What a wonderful picture Kmerov. It's a new one for me. Thanks for sharing it. I really appreciate these good ones without watermarks :)
-
Me too, Without watermarks makes it easy to appreciate thec whole picture. Prince Has was actually Alix & Minny's uncle.
-
Maria and Kids. Circa 1880
(http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/5259/6035825.jpg) (http://img841.imageshack.us/i/6035825.jpg/)
-
Finally bigger version of that wonderful one! could I have it without watermark via PM, please, please??...
-
Does someone have a bigger version of this that could share? PLEASE
(http://a.imageshack.us/img823/8774/copiadedagmarnixaf72b1l.jpg)
-
That's a nice image of Marie. I really do wish I'd seen a bigger version....
-
Ok, I checked previous topics and I haven't found this one, so I hope it's new....
MF with her children (from well known session, yeeees;-))
(http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/787/miszazw034a02932d29094x.jpg)
-
MF during the celebrations of the bicentenary of the foundation of St Petersburg, may 1903.
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i295/_mbp_/tr_05.jpg)
-
She looked like an empress in that picture.
-
In which one?
-
1903 in St. Petersburg.
-
heavily retouched MF
(http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/5004/s640x4801j.jpg) (http://img690.imageshack.us/i/s640x4801j.jpg/)
-
(http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/4420/szaszkamaria2we.jpg)
-
I looove this picture - MF and Aleksander
(http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/2111/saszkamaria1.jpg)
-
Where do these pictures come from ?
-
I forgot from where exactly, I didn't save the link. It was some site with Russian art and antiques.
-
MF with ...?
I recognize only her daughter Xenia on the left .
(http://pics.livejournal.com/fedor_ragin/pic/000csdpz/s640x480.jpg)
-
It looks like Olga A. is right behind MF wearing a white dress.
-
Indeed!
You're right, Marty!
-
Yes. The woman in white dress IS Olga Alexandrovna.
RealAnastasia
-
I wonder when this was taken ? Denmark ?
-
Marie with her mother and sister
(http://i56.tinypic.com/mlkyok.jpg)
-
Are you sure she is Dagmar ? For me she look more like Alexandra
-
Are you sure she is Dagmar ? For me she look more like Alexandra
Hmm. You could be right. It migh be Thyra and Alexandra and their mother. It wouldn't be the first time a picture was mis-labelled.
-
Marie with her mother and sister
Those are Alexandra and Thyra.
-
No. It was Minny & Alix wit their mother. I got the three with their mother in another photo of the same session.
-
it looks like Maria Fyodorovna to me.
-
it looks like Maria Fyodorovna to me.
Probably the angle but she looks like Thyra to me.
-
it looks like Maria Fyodorovna to me.
Probably the angle but she looks like Thyra to me.
definitely agree with Svetabel. Look at her nose and lips.
-
Posted also to Nicholas´ thread.
Imperial couple with Nicky and Georgy
(http://nd04.jxs.cz/887/389/602434804e_69266347_u.jpg)
-
its way too small to check her lips and nose. I f there was a bigger version or even better...another from the photoshot (im sure i ve seen one over here, but i cant remember where. I hope Kmerov help us!)
-
Winner!!!...its Maria Fyodorovna
(Thanks Kmerov!)
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/kmerov/Christian%20IX%20and%20Louise/louisnedthydagali.jpg)
-
I won by default since I knew the photo and Thyra wore a different dress. ;D
-
i knew i saw that another from that session somewhere. I always can count with Kmerov and his wonderful resource of images!
-
Yes. He is a bit more resourceful than Svetabel. It proves that we can all make mistakes and that is ok. I for one is still learing every day.
-
Yes. He is a bit more resourceful than Svetabel. It proves that we can all make mistakes and that is ok. I for one is still learing every day.
You can't know HOW resourceful I am. Yes, we all make mistakes but you are the one here who boast with your mistakes - do you think it's cool? And had you learned every day you'd never repeat you mistakes from thread to thread. But you repeat.
-
I do NOT boast my mistakes but admits them rather than try to argue my way out of it. It is the admitting than to accuse others that is real cool ! I am sorry that you are upset about my comments on your resourcefulness, but that photo was published before. I think I know since I like Thyra a lot and study her photos more. She and Dagmar do look alike in some photos.
-
On the first picture - MF with officer Rogozhyn, Kiev 1916.
(http://regiment.ru/Lib/A/5/39.jpg)
-
Nice images. Was it from a book ?
-
I do NOT boast my mistakes but admits them rather than try to argue my way out of it. It is the admitting than to accuse others that is real cool ! I am sorry that you are upset about my comments on your resourcefulness, but that photo was published before.
I didn't accuse you here. Nothing is changed when you admits your mistakes as you keep on repeating them constantly.Your way of free pronounce of Royal nicknames is the best example.
-
Nice images. Was it from a book ?
It seems it is. I found it on some page about imperial regiments.
-
Maria Feodorovna with officers of her guard regiment (that tall man behind her, on the right - it's Felix Yusupov)
(http://regiment.ru/reg/I/B/1/2.jpg)
-
Maria F and Ksenia Alexandrovna visiting wonded soldiers at the hospital
(http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/25/fgsdgsdgsdg.jpg) (http://img824.imageshack.us/i/fgsdgsdgsdg.jpg/)
-
You mean the father of the famous Felix Yusspov right ?
Is the hospital in Crimea or Moscow ?
-
Is that Felix Yussupov Sr?. I had no idea...
-
I think so. The son never served in the army.
-
Eric...moustaches and that kind of haircut in men was VERY common. To me it looks way to young for being Felix Yusupov Sr.
-
I don't think that Felix Yussupov Sr. would be inmated in this kind of hospital, and placed in this kind of bed...The face is doesn't seems known to me. As Katenka_Fyodorvna wrote, these kind of moustaches were very common back then. Even my relatives would wear them at the time. I have pics of them in which they looks more similar to this poor wnded inmated than to Felix Yussupov Sr.
RealAnastasia.
-
You mean the father of the famous Felix Yusspov right ?
Yes,that's him. He served in a guard regiment.
-
Doesnt the man in bed looks too young for being Felix Sr?. Sadly i didnt find any info about that picture where i found it.
-
Doesnt the man in bed looks too young for being Felix Sr?. Sadly i didnt find any info about that picture where i found it.
It seems we are talking about two diffrent pictures.;-)
I'm only saying that the man who's standing behind MF is Felix Yusupov Senior (in the picture which I posted)
I have no idea who's that man in the bed in the picture posted by you,Katenka, but it's rather obvious it's not Yusupov.
Prince Yusupov Sumarokov Elston in the hospital for wounded soldiers, and in the bed??..Nooooo, no way.XD
-
ahhh!! i thought you (and Eric i suposse) were talking about my picture.
Eric...you should use the "Quote" option to avoid misunderstoods like this one ;-D
-
Sorry...I never did master that technique. :(
Yes I was talking about 2 different photos.
-
Doesnt the man in bed looks too young for being Felix Sr?. Sadly i didnt find any info about that picture where i found it.
It seems we are talking about two diffrent pictures.;-)
I'm only saying that the man who's standing behind MF is Felix Yusupov Senior (in the picture which I posted)
I have no idea who's that man in the bed in the picture posted by you,Katenka, but it's rather obvious it's not Yusupov.
Prince Yusupov Sumarokov Elston in the hospital for wounded soldiers, and in the bed??..Nooooo, no way.XD
Yes. Now I understand. in the picture you've posted it's quite clear that the man behind MF is Felix Yussupov. I was speaking about the pic with the men lying in beds..
RealAnastasia.
-
Maria with siblings Christian and Alexandra
(http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5225/minsibl.jpg) (http://img191.imageshack.us/i/minsibl.jpg/)
-
MF with GD Maria Pavlovna, GD Victoria Melita, granddaughters Olga and Tatiana - and nurses.
(http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/ap/a/a157337.jpg)
-
I do wonder do a clearer image exists ?
-
Where comes this image from?
-
Where comes this image from?
From the page about Canadian nurses in Russia during the WWI.
The full description of that picture is: 'The Dowager Empress Maria Fedorovna, accompanied by Princesses Olga and Tatiana and Grand Duchesses Cyril and Maria Pavlowa, at the opening of the Anglo Russian Hospital at the Dmitri Palace.'
-
Where is the Dimitri Palace ? Was that the Serge Palace that Ella gave him ?
-
Where is the Dimitri Palace ? Was that the Serge Palace that Ella gave him ?
Yes, the same one. During the war the palace became the Anglo-Russian hospital and GD Dimitri had only an apartment there.
-
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/ashanti01/Maria%20F/hpqscan0011-1.jpg)
GD Xenia, Empress Marie, GD Olga and Princess Zenaida Yusupova 1905
full version
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/ashanti01/Maria%20F/hpqscan0010-1-1.jpg)
-
GD Xenia, Empress Marie, GD Olga and Princess Zenaida Yusupova 1905
There are also Felix Yussupov Senior, GD Michael Aleksandrovich and Duke Peter of Oldenburg (Olga's husband).
Great picture, new for me. Thanks, ashanti!
-
Where did you find this rare picture Ashanti?
-
Yes. It is a rare image. Poor Olga A looked bored stiff in the photo.
-
Where did you find this rare picture Ashanti?
"Les Princes Youssoupoff" by Jacques Ferrand. I believe it's also in "Romanoff: Un album de famille". Both are wonderful books to add to your collection, if you can find them. : (
-
Thanks ! I will dig them out. Jacques Ferrand was a real good man and generous with his information. He sent me some photo to use in my book when I wrote for help. A real gentleman. He has since passed away to the sorrow of those who knew him.
-
A reprint of some of his books would be very nice.
-
That would be interesting who was the heir to the copyrights of these books.
-
I think personally his widom.
-
Widom ? Wisdom or Widow ?
-
Eric, if you read the question you made and then Teddy s answer, you can easily deduce he s talking about his WIDOW.
-
Sorry for the spelling. I type to fast! Thank you for clearing me out Katenka. Mistakes are easily made, and Eric_Lowe knows everything making mistakes, don't you Eric?
-
I know...Just pulling your leg in good humor and not vicious in intend. Anyway who knows if his widow would reprint the book ?
-
This is one of my favorite images of Maria.
(http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/4535/varh.jpg) (http://img838.imageshack.us/i/varh.jpg/)
-
Was she looking at the Polar Star ?
-
(http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/2497/garf6.jpg)
-
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/ashanti01/Maria%20F/hpqscan0011-1.jpg)
GD Xenia, Empress Marie, GD Olga and Princess Zenaida Yusupova 1905
full version
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/ashanti01/Maria%20F/hpqscan0010-1-1.jpg)
The lady next to Zenaida (with the plume in her toque) is Madame Serebriakova a leading St Petersburg socialite/hostess. In exile she morgantically married Duke Peter of Oldenburg shortly before his death.
-
I wonder which room was Minny in ? Amailenborg ? Gatchina ? Anitchkov or Kiev ?
-
That's Anichkov Palace.
-
Thanks. The rooms looked grander than Alicky's in Alexander Palace.
-
I agree.:-)
Maria Feodorovna with her grandson Andrei Aleksandrovich
(http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/3518/kseniamfauto.jpg)
-
Empress Marie with GD Olga
(http://inlinethumb46.webshots.com/237/2494782640102753164S600x600Q85.jpg) (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2494782640102753164waYgBn)
-
(http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/9831/mf1v.jpg)
-
Picnic in Abbas tumman. There s Maria F with Olga, and at the right Gd Georgiy Alexandrovich. I cant recognize the rest of the people tho
(http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/380/imagead6a4c21ec19.jpg) (http://img72.imageshack.us/i/imagead6a4c21ec19.jpg/)
-
There is also Misha, he is sitting/lying (in the centre), I can recognize him everywhere XD
-
Hard to tell...too small. The lady with the white hat could be Queen Olga of Greece.
-
With Sandro and Ksenia
(http://statearchive.ru/assets/galleries/436/rmf-085.jpg)
-
With Sandro and Ksenia
Actually he looks like Georgiy Mikhailovitch, Sandro's brother. I am not sure though.
It's interesting that none who post these pictures doesn't refer to the source, site of the Russian State Archive.
-
Yes, its Georgiy, not Sandro
Maybe no one refers the source since the link has been posted a thousand of times in this very same forum in different topics. No one is hidding where those pictures were found and if someone ask, always the link to the albumns is posted.
-
Circa 1910
(http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/3882/zoom3ms1.jpg) (http://img232.imageshack.us/i/zoom3ms1.jpg/)
(http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/264/zoom3ms.jpg) (http://img683.imageshack.us/i/zoom3ms.jpg/)
-
Katenka, do you know where this picture was taken? and on what occasion?
-
No idea. I just now that those pictures belong to the personal travel albumn of Maria.
-
Maybe in Kiev ?
-
Maybe in Kiev ?
In Kiev.
-
Are there any pictures of Marie Feodrovna with her granddaughters, OTMA? I'd like to see some, I can't recall any, though I know there must be at least some. :)
-
Go check this topic
http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=3197.0
Maybe there you will find a few ;-D
-
Marie with her mother and sister
(http://i56.tinypic.com/mlkyok.jpg)
(http://i54.tinypic.com/28t7vrs.jpg)
you know where it was taken the photo of Maria Feodorovna with the hat ?? The photo is dated 1896, I thought in the Crimea because you see the sea , but I read in the forum that Maria did not visit the Crimea for 22 years from 1895 to 1917. Thanks
-
i think it was taken in france. I remember i saw a picture of Olga and Mikhail taken in the same place and Olgasha told me it was taken in france. (if i recall well)
-
Thanks, looking at the picture you see mountains and the sea or lake , in "empress Marie discussion and pictures Part II reply 361 , there is a picture of Marie, it seems the same dress,1896 while fishing, perhaps taken the same day? the photo above with Nicholas will be the same place?
-
its from this same photoshoot
(http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/6108/img048l.jpg) (http://img835.imageshack.us/i/img048l.jpg/)
-
you're right, the same place. Perhaps in the hinterland of "Cote d'Azur".
-
you're right, the same place. Perhaps in the hinterland of "Cote d'Azur".
That's right, it was at Turbie in southeastern France, where in 1896 Empress Maria with her youngest children visited her elder son Grand Duke Georgiy.
-
Misha looked a bit grown up already. I wonder if he was close to Georgy ?
-
(http://i686.photobucket.com/albums/vv226/KaiserinAlzbeta/Empresses/mariavelk.jpg)
(http://i686.photobucket.com/albums/vv226/KaiserinAlzbeta/Empresses/mariedag.jpg)
Still young, lovely and fresh XD
-
Marie
(http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt94/KaiserinCharlotte/RoyalLadies/dagmara.jpg)
With family
(http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt94/KaiserinCharlotte/RoyalLadies/rusia.jpg)
-
Circa 1910
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/3882/zoom3ms1.jpg
http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/264/zoom3ms.jpg
From the same sitting
(http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/917/zoom3ms4.jpg) (http://img560.imageshack.us/i/zoom3ms4.jpg/)
-
She looked more like Greek Minny when she aged...
-
I found this as Maria Fyodorovna in her casket. Could it be her?
(http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/9629/granger0126465preview.jpg) (http://img826.imageshack.us/i/granger0126465preview.jpg/)
-
I don't think it could be her. I've seen a pic of her inside her casket and was very different. The casket itself seems to be different...and the upper face of the dead person is not similar to Maria's one. It even seems a man's face...
RealAnastasia.
-
I think it's her. I saw another one of her after her death, and for me it looked very similar.
-
Hi,
Did Maria Feodorovna still have dark hair at 81??
It does look like her "Cossack" retainer though beside the coffin. And, he would have stayed with her till the end; he was very loyal...
Larry
-
Hi,
Did Maria Feodorovna still have dark hair at 81??
It does look like her "Cossack" retainer though beside the coffin. And, he would have stayed with her till the end; he was very loyal...
Larry
iT`s definitely "her" Cossack. As for the hair, it was dark in her pictures with Queen Alexandra in the first half of the 1920s. I don`t remember her have grey hair. Besides, I`ve seen that people`s faces change after death.
-
MF had very long dark hair and only with a very light gray or withe. look at the photos from the mid 1920's.
maybe it's an othe camera angle. it's hard to tell. the lining is bad to see, also the positions of hands etc.
in the other one, for me, she resemble her mother Queen Louise.
-
It could be she...I want to pic a very clear picture of her after her death, inside her coffin, but- I don't know why- I can't...It should be nice you could make a comparison between the two photos.
I think the principal difficulty here is that the pic I know is sepia, and the one you posted above is black and white. Black and white pictures are sometimes clearer than sepia ones..
RealAnastasia.
-
Sorry but that is certainly not MF. Thats a face of a young gentlemen. I have seen her post mortem photo and this is certainly not her. You can find her post mortem photo in a thread which is called: "post mortem pictures". Try the search options and search for "post mortem pictures" and then you will find the thread with a post mortem photo of the Empress Marie F.
-
here is it by Kmerov
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y69/kmerov/Dagmar/mflitdeparade.jpg)
In this one it doesnt looks like Maria either.
-
Katenka_Fyodorovna, believe me its the Empress Maria F. This photo appears in some of the books about her and here she resembles her mother the Queen Louise.
-
Yes i know its her but it doesnt look like Maria.
-
Yes...This was the pic I was referring to. It looks like Maria, but of course, it's an old Maria, maybe you find her face with not so much ressemblance for you are not used to see her as a VERY old lady.
The first picture, is not similar to this one, the expression of the dead young man (as Teddy had said, it seems to be a young man) is not the same than the one of MF. Just look at his eyes and those of Maria...The young boy also had a sad expression in her face, while Maria looks more stern than sad.
The coffin also seems to be different in both cases.
Maybe the angles in which the two pics were taken distorted the "young man's" expression and it's Maria after all...But I seriously doubt it.
RealAnastasia.
-
I've visited the www.granger.com site from where the pic of "Maria Fyodorovna" in her coffin (the one who seems to be a youn dead man) is taken and I've found some mislabelled photos. THere's one from Maria Alexandrova (Alexander II's daughter), labelled as...OLGA CONSTANTINOVNA!!!! Its a good site, but beware . There are some little mislabelled images.... :(
RealAnastasia.
-
I don't want to bother you anymore...but just see who the people of www.granger.com, labelled as Marie-Antoinette...
http://www.granger.com/searchresults.asp?inline=true&image=0127286&wwwflag=1&imagepos=10
AAAARRRGHHH.
RealAnastasia.
-
as for that site-I do wonder who colored that (http://www.granger.com/searchresults.asp?inline=true&image=0086810&wwwflag=1&imagepos=142)... I just love the label 'Photograph, early 20th century'.
-
That looks to me like a work of our Olgasha....
-
i was thinking in Isabel`s work. She loves to add details in little mthings and it looks like something she did. I will ask her
RealAnastasia, the mislabeled images of Maria Alexandrovna as Olga Constantinova comes mislabeled from the Ullstein bild ;-D
-
Minny did enjoy taking photos and being taken photos as well. I guess the Russian archievs must have a lot of them taken by the Empress during her travels. ;)
-
i was thinking in Isabel`s work. She loves to add details in little mthings and it looks like something she did. I will ask her
RealAnastasia, the mislabeled images of Maria Alexandrovna as Olga Constantinova comes mislabeled from the Ullstein bild ;-D
Thanks for the info, Katenka! However, they must have checked the labelling of Ullstein Bild. ;D
As for the Colored Anastasia picture...yes I've also noticed it and was quite upset to see it there...Specially when they forbide people to use their images freely. It seems they wouldn't let you to take their pictures without mentioning them....sadly,they don't act the same way to the work of other people. >:(
RealAnastasia.
-
Which Anastasia picture ? ???
-
(sighs) Read above posts
Going to mass with sister Alexandra. Also in the picture, Princess Victoria
(http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/4160/10410836a.jpg) (http://img507.imageshack.us/i/10410836a.jpg/)
Another
(http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/9443/10410915a.jpg) (http://img214.imageshack.us/i/10410915a.jpg/)
-
Taken at the Sandringham Church ?
-
Doesn't look like St Mary Magdalene for me
-
(sighs) Read above posts
Going to mass with sister Alexandra. Also in the picture, Princess Victoria
(http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/4160/10410836a.jpg) (http://img507.imageshack.us/i/10410836a.jpg/)
Another
(http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/9443/10410915a.jpg) (http://img214.imageshack.us/i/10410915a.jpg/)
The captions say:
Queen Alexandra (1844-1925) and her sister Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia, formerly Princess Dagmar of Denmark (1847-1928), in an open carriage, leaving Victoria Station, Central London, at the time of the death of King Edward VII.
Queen Alexandra (1844-1925) and her sister Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia, formerly Princess Dagmar of Denmark (1847-1928), leaving the Maundy Thursday distribution ceremony at Westminster Abbey, Central London, at which specially coined Maundy money is given to the deserving poor. The Dean of Westminster is in a white surplice just ahead of them.
-
Thanks for the explaination. Would love to know where the Dowager Empress lived while she was in Sandringham ?
-
Thanks for the explaination. Would love to know where the Dowager Empress lived while she was in Sandringham ?
I suppose there are some Guest Rooms in the "big haouse" upper floor.
-
Maybe that was the reason for the tension between the sisters, Dagmar was not in a family home anymore, but A lodger of her sister...
-
1883 engravings of Marie and Alexander at their coronation
(http://inlinethumb23.webshots.com/45078/2729902480102753164S600x600Q85.jpg) (http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/2729902480102753164vvbuUn)
(http://inlinethumb43.webshots.com/46954/2645194660102753164S600x600Q85.jpg) (http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/2645194660102753164tFSqjA)
(http://inlinethumb29.webshots.com/44124/2358535280102753164S600x600Q85.jpg) (http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo/2358535280102753164IwZsdQ)
-
This is very weird and i thinki its a composite. It was on sale on ebay a few weeks ago
(http://img816.imageshack.us/img816/3985/a25497.jpg) (http://img816.imageshack.us/i/a25497.jpg/)
-
Re Reply # 301: IMO, it is decidedly a composite! The UNADORNED head undoubtedly comes from another photo (oddly reminding me of a possibly seated pose?). Again, IMO, it is unthinkable to have originally formally posed the (undiademed) Empress in Robes of State as depicted here! Also, is not the vertically-striped dress portion showing in folds, an "everyday"/society-type dress? Certainly not a Coronation dress! Good eye! Regards, AP.
-
In reference to my reply # 302 posted immediately above, I find that I had omitted several words in a phrase which should have read "in what appear to be lavish ermine-tipped Robes of State." I now correct it. Regards, AP.
-
I don't think there was a photo of Marie wearing the crown as an empress.I think there is one of her as dowager empress though. It was used as the model for the big coronation portrait.
-
(http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/9079/u1656inp.jpg)
-
I can see Alicky,Greek Minny (a Greek Prince behind her I think George later George II) with Minny and Xenia. The Tsar is at the back. Where & when was this taken ?
-
(http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww199/vitavioletta/Dagmar-Alexandra_young.jpg)
-
(http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/1696/091110hall1.jpg) (http://img227.imageshack.us/i/091110hall1.jpg/)
-
A cdv based on a drawing ?
-
Yup
-
It is interesting that she took no photo on that special day.
-
from a new biography of Sergei Diaghilev by Sjeng Scheijen:
" The revealing nature of Nijinsky's outfit, which consisted of extremely tight tights and a short, belted tunic, caused offence in the imperial box. In the interval, Mariya Fyodorovna sent Grand Duke Sergey to Nijinsky 'to find out what costume Nijinsky would wear in the next act, because if it were the same one, she and the grand dukes would have to leave the theater'."
note: this excerpt refers to Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich, not Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich!
-
Interesting. Wonder what MF would have said about contemporary ballet. My impression is that it's like watching pyjamas-clad youngsters engaging in foreplay. Very exquisite, high-brow softcore pornography. Did Queen Victoria ever attend the ballet? If so, I'm very shocked!
note: this excerpt refers to Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich, not Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich!
Lol!
-
Interesting question, Feodor. What I have found is that Arthur Sullivan [later with Gilbert] wrote a ballet in 1864. He was one of Victoria's favourite entertainers and she probably saw that. However, I doubt she went to Covent Garden, it most likely came to her at Windsor. Hardly modern, but the Royal Ballet was not even founded until well after her death.
-
does anyone have any other portraits that were painted by the Empress. I've only seen the basic.
-
Maria & Alexandra
(http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/3051/fdsr3r5.jpg) (http://img695.imageshack.us/i/fdsr3r5.jpg/)
-
I like this one - MF in Hvidore
(http://img815.imageshack.us/img815/9789/0491b1a65c721xl.jpg)
-
Hey, these last two ones were totally new for me!
Queen Alexandra looked really younger than her sister in the first one, and in the second photo, Dagmar shows a great regal look, even if it is almost a "casual" photo.
RealAnastasia.
-
Quite a few photos from Hvidore came into the market. Think they maybe made into postcards too...
-
People, for the love of Denmark, the suburb of Hvidovre (which is what you get when you type "Hvidore" into Google) is not the same as Hvidøre, indeed they are on completely different ends of Copenhagen! Don't you people have Windows language bars? Soon Holger Danske should emerge from the vaults of Kronborg and save Danish honour by smacking irreverant foreign fingers over their keyboards! (Lol, I'm beginning to sound like a Danomane from Struensee's time.)
But I do start to see why Queen Margrethe's Easter residence Århus just recently renamed itself Aarhus, as explained in this post (http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=8168.msg475974#msg475974). I saw a disgruntled Dane fuming: Thank God København is Copenhagen in English, otherwise, with globalisation at its current speed, we'd soon have to rename it "Buy-a-Harbour" (the literal meaning in Danish :-)
And Heaven forbid that the newborn baby prince, born on St. Severin's day, should be given the typically Danish name form Søren and endure a lifetime of having his name misspelt on royalty blogs!
-
Not everybody is Danish you know. Princess Alice, Duchess of Hesse named her daughter Alice, but had to fobbled off with "Alix". She wrote "They murdered my name here..." The girl grew up to be Empress of Russia. Interestingly, she signed her name "Alice" in photos to several of her friends and cousins...
-
Not everybody is Danish you know.
Neither am I! And neither has my country been since 1814! And even if my language (Norwegian) does have an ø in my alphabet, I do have Windows language bar, like 99 % of you guys!
Princess Alice, Duchess of Hesse named her daughter Alice, but had to fobbled off with "Alix". She wrote "They murdered my name here...
She should have respelled it Ällis (or if she wanted to a bit more conventional: Aeliese or Èlise (more Hessians knew French than English)) and the Hessians wouldn't have had a problem with it!
-
Yes. It has to do with spelling.
-
the two sisiters with their father
(http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww199/vitavioletta/alixminnywithfather.jpg)
-
(http://i719.photobucket.com/albums/ww199/vitavioletta/16hi.jpg)
MF in a dress of her Blue Curaisseur Unit stationed in Gatchina
-
Does anyone know about a Boasson and Eggler portrait of the Dowager Empress in full court dress?
-
again the sisters
(http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/6739/kgrhqvlme2eo5unigbnnjkt.jpg) (http://img862.imageshack.us/i/kgrhqvlme2eo5unigbnnjkt.jpg/)
-
A bit Bigger by Zanthia, posted here (http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=1529.135)
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i201/Zanthia1982/milla014.jpg
-
Other pose from a sitting posted before.
Maria and her eldest sons
(http://i51.tinypic.com/2hcdfkg.jpg)
-
Also an other pose from a posted before sitting. Here Alexandra is closer to Alexander and Maria holds her hand on his shoulder.
(http://i53.tinypic.com/2i0w1g7.jpg)
-
Marie F. with her siblings Alexandra and Waldemar in 1884
(http://i53.tinypic.com/2uf5a52.jpg)
-
Maria Fedorovna in the beginning of 1890s.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v433/feomarie/Rarefind/mf_1890s.jpg)
-
that's a new one of her Svetabel. Thanks very much for sharing it.
-
that's a new one of her Svetabel. Thanks very much for sharing it.
You are welcome. The photo is indeed new, I'd love to see the colour of her "tartan"dress...so nice.
-
A new photo off Dowager Empress! Thanks for posting it Svetabel...Oh, and I also wish to see her tartan dress colorized. :D
RealAnastasia.
-
that's a new one of her Svetabel. Thanks very much for sharing it.
You are welcome. The photo is indeed new, I'd love to see the colour of her "tartan"dress...so nice.
I wonder if the tartan could have been a gift from her sister Alexandra....
-
I haven't seen these two before-I'm sorry if they have been posted before though.
Empress Maria, ca. 1895 (http://www.imagebam.com/image/9ef7b9136628634)
The Dowager Empress (http://www.imagebam.com/image/3d065c136628572)(does anyone have this less retouched?)
-
I don't remember to have seen those two before. And in the last one, Maria reminds me teen Anastasia facial features.
RealAnastasia.
-
I haven't seen these two before-I'm sorry if they have been posted before though.
Empress Maria, ca. 1895 (http://www.imagebam.com/image/9ef7b9136628634)
The Dowager Empress (http://www.imagebam.com/image/3d065c136628572)(does anyone have this less retouched?)
Second photo is quite rare - there are many shots of MF from that sitting but not the full-length images.
First one is well-known, had been posted but not in such size.
-
I've known other poses from that sitting-one's even avaiable at Library of Congress, yet I could never find the date for this sitting-does anyone know when it could have been taken?
-
(http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/2042/ok3g.th.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/706/ok3g.jpg/)
-
Taken on the Standart or Polar Star ?
-
Taken on the Standart or Polar Star ?
On the Tsarevna.
-
Another of her ships ?
-
With Alexander
(http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/6107/img243333.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/811/img243333.jpg/)
-
They don't look too happy here...
-
Shocking how much Alexander III looks than MF. Is this post-Borki?
-
I think it is after the incident.
-
I need some help for photo identification. A flickr friend of mine bought this cabinet card and the lady on the photo was id'ed as Sisi, Elisabeth Empress of Austria. It's obvious that it's not her and the seller now sees that he's wrong but now he claims it could be Dagmar of Denmark. What do you think?
(http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb201/zukunftsseele/5846133603_b09fc76678_b.jpg)
-
It actually looks more like Miechen than Dagmar. ;)
-
no, its not Dagmar and its not Miechen
-
I need some help for photo identification. A flickr friend of mine bought this cabinet card and the lady on the photo was id'ed as Sisi, Elisabeth Empress of Austria. It's obvious that it's not her and the seller now sees that he's wrong but now he claims it could be Dagmar of Denmark. What do you think?
Some noble lady. Not a Royal person.
-
Yes, that would have been my guess, too. I'm curious as to what the seller will say now. lol
Thanks for your help. :-*
-
I did not say it was Miechen, but that it looked more like her than Sisi.
-
This looks like the future George the 5th, Minnie , Greek royals ( in fact isn't that Princess Alexandra....Grand Duke Paul's first wife? )
then Nicholas
(http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/yy202/blessOTMA/Botkin/th_mfnagreeks.jpg) (http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/yy202/blessOTMA/Botkin/mfnagreeks.jpg)
-
This looks like the future George the 5th, Minnie , Greek royals ( in fact isn't that Princess Alexandra....Grand Duke Paul's first wife? )
then Nicholas
(http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/yy202/blessOTMA/Botkin/th_mfnagreeks.jpg) (http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/yy202/blessOTMA/Botkin/mfnagreeks.jpg)
First row (left to right): future George V, Empress MF, Greek Minny aka Marie of Greece, future Nicholas II
Back row: Prince Waldemar of Denmark, Prince Georgios of Greece.
-
The older Minnie was much more elegant than the younger Minnie.
-
Of course! The "older Minnie" was one of the more elegant women of Europe...
RealAnastasia.
-
Indeed. I read "young Minnie"'s auto-bio, but I wonder what the older one feel about her young namesake ?
-
c1860s Marie
(http://inlinethumb04.webshots.com/49091/2447193740102753164S600x600Q85.jpg) (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2447193740102753164WNYaMj)
-
She was still in her crinoline and curls era. Her sister Alexandra used the curls to hide her scar on her neck.
-
Its from late 1860s- early 1870s. i can tell for her gown.
-
She was still in her crinoline and curls era. Her sister Alexandra used the curls to hide her scar on her neck.
What scar?
-
She was still in her crinoline and curls era. Her sister Alexandra used the curls to hide her scar on her neck.
What scar?
It's often stated that Princess Alexandra had a scar on her neck that she didn't like from an illness when she was young. It's why she wore curls on her neck when young and set the fashion for dog collars as she got older.
-
Yes. So the dress and hairstyle fits the period.
-
Maria Fedorovna with Queen Olga of Greece
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v433/feomarie/Rarefind/mfolga.jpg)
-
Olga was Dagmar's favorite sister-in-law. They remained close for many years.
-
What's the approxiamte date of the last pic?
Thanks, still learning to date pics by fashion :)
-
What's the approxiamte date of the last pic?
Thanks, still learning to date pics by fashion :)
1877-1878 I think.
-
Dating the photo merely by fashion, I'd say probably early 1870s because it seems that the bustles are rather large, and the overall frilly-ness in trim and slightly looser fit of the bodices indicate the early bustle era, probably between 1870-1875. I could be wrong, though, & in that case it would be 1884-1889, the 2nd large bustle era, but it doesn't seem to be that to me...
Oh, I see that you've posted a date, Svetabel! Knowing that you're far more knowledgeable about Marie Feodorovna than I am, your dating is probably more accurate, though Queen Olga's dress does not seem to be very natural form era to me, because of the jutting out of the bustle.
-
Nope, thats not early 1870s, but late 1870s, so Svetabel is right.
-
Minny stilled looked a bit girlish in the photo while Olga looked more mature.
-
The Empress with children Georgiy and Xenia and relatives. About 1890.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v433/feomarie/Rarefind/mfolga-1.jpg)
Sitting from left to right: Marie of Greece, Xenia, MF, Queen Olga of Greece with her son Christopher
Standing: GD Georgiy, GD Mikhail Nikolayevitch.
-
Was it taken in St Petersburg or Moscow ?
-
Was it taken in St Petersburg or Moscow ?
Peterhof.
-
Thanks ! :)
-
Was Nicholas her first born child? I think I read somewhere she had another boy before? Sorry, it was her second born, I found it again, Alexander ... do we know something more about him?
-
He died very young. As he was her first born. It is understandable why she spoilt her children (especially the elder ones). She also had a miscarriage in her life too...
-
Eric, I too remembered him as the first born but not according to wikipedia! Do you remember where you read about it?
-
It was in Coryne Hall's book on Marie Feodorovna "Little Mother Of Russia".
-
To clarify: NICHOLAS (1868-1918) was the first born, though, as Coryne Hall suggests in "Little Mother of Russia", there is some evidence that the future Empress Marie F. may have had a miscarriage before her successful pregnancy with him. Alexander lived 1869-70, and the idea that he was the first son is nothing more than one of those "lost heir" fantasies which arise when a monarch screws up as Nicholas did: the fond idea that if his brother had succeeded, things might have gone differently. It used to be written that Alexander was the eldest in the sort of books which summarised royal lives, not in-depth biographies - in fact, Alexander Mikhailovich may be responsible, ultimately, because he did say this in one of his many tomes. Coryne does not describe him as first son in her in-depth book, because he wasn't.
-
Yes. I think they mixed up the miscarriage with Alexander. The fact that there is no photo of Alexander complicated things. Even her sister Alix posed in a photo with her baby son Eddy.
-
To clarify: NICHOLAS (1868-1918) was the first born, though, as Coryne Hall suggests in "Little Mother of Russia", there is some evidence that the future Empress Marie F. may have had a miscarriage before her successful pregnancy with him.
My forthcoming book related to Alexander III presents indisputable evidence that will confirm once and for all whether Tsesarevna Mariya Fyodorovna suffered a miscarriage or not.
Margarita
-
When will it be published ? :)
-
any online documentary about her?
-
Don't think so other than bits from the Danish program on Glucksborgs on youtube.
-
To clarify: NICHOLAS (1868-1918) was the first born, though, as Coryne Hall suggests in "Little Mother of Russia", there is some evidence that the future Empress Marie F. may have had a miscarriage before her successful pregnancy with him. Alexander lived 1869-70, and the idea that he was the first son is nothing more than one of those "lost heir" fantasies which arise when a monarch screws up as Nicholas did: the fond idea that if his brother had succeeded, things might have gone differently. It used to be written that Alexander was the eldest in the sort of books which summarised royal lives, not in-depth biographies - in fact, Alexander Mikhailovich may be responsible, ultimately, because he did say this in one of his many tomes. Coryne does not describe him as first son in her in-depth book, because he wasn't.
Thank you, Janet. It also doesn't help when a so-called "expert" on this forum also continues on with this misinformation.
Here is a photo of baby Alexander's tomb I took inside the Peter & Paul Cathedral. He lived 1869-1870. I hope all debates about his order of birth can cease! ;)
(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y141/trsny/P1050062.jpg)
-
What was the color of Minnie's eyes? And what about her children?
-
Nicholas II had blue eyes like his mother...
-
Minnie had brown eyes as far as I know. They look dark on photographs and there is this well-known portrait of her and Alexandra. Alix has blue eyes and minnie brown in it.
(http://nd02.jxs.cz/619/990/7f2795d9da_52229018_o2.jpg)
Nicholas and Misha had blue eyes, Xenia, Georgi and Olga brown eyes I think.
-
Thank you for the replies! I always thought that GD George had blue eyes like his brothers.
-
Thank you for the replies! I always thought that GD George had blue eyes like his brothers.
that may be correct, I am really not sure. I have only seen one colour portrait of him and it was rather hazy, so impossible to state his eye-colour from it.
-
Not sure...Many books commented on the blueness of the last Tsar's eyes and how they resembled his mother's.
-
Minnie's first fiancee, Nixa, described her eyes as "kind, intelligent, animated."
And here Dr. Malcolm Grow, the American surgeon who joined the Russian Army in WWI, described Nicholas' eyes:
"He had large dark eyes---the kindest eyes I have ever seen" (I always like the fact that he wrote this before Nicholas was killed, so you know Grow's memory wasn't tainted by historical events)
Perhaps mother and son did have similar eyes.
-
I have never come across any book or account, forget "many", that would claim the last Tsar got his mother´s eyes. While it is possible that the look in Nicholas´ and his mother´s eyes was similar, Nicholas had unquestionably blue eyes and Marie brown ones. I think I recall a quote by Ssandro, where he says Xenia had the darkest eyes possible just like her mother. And while I know that sometimes blue eyes look brown because of the angle of the light and all, I don´t think that is the case here.
The portraits of Marie Fyodorovna speak quite clearly.
(http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll299/Romanovy/517oyarovV_PtMariiFedorKoNT.jpg)
(http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll299/Romanovy/1882kramskoymuserussestp2eq.jpg)
(http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll299/Romanovy/3894276619_23aa323b86_b.jpg)
(http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll299/Romanovy/f03a-l.jpg)
-
Thanks. I wonder where the blue eyes of the Tsar came from ? Empress Marie Alexandriovna (his grandmother) ?
-
Alexander III. had blue eyes. And I believe Alexander II. as well.
-
Maybe from the father's side. They usually quote Nicholas II having the same eyes as his mother. I guess that must be a miss quote. That aspect also came up in the Anna Anderson case.
-
From the portraits, it seems to me that Nicholas, George & Michael had blue eyes and Xenia and Olga brown ones.
-
Some of the portraits are not realiable...
-
Maybe from the father's side. They usually quote Nicholas II having the same eyes as his mother. I guess that must be a miss quote. That aspect also came up in the Anna Anderson case.
Just an opinion: Can't it be that they were reffering that Emperor Nicholas had the same -or similar- shape of eyes than his mother? I really doubt that MF had blue eyes, she seemed to have dark eyes, unlike her sister Alexandra. I also believe that both Olga and Ksenia had dark eyes, they inherited a lot of her mother's appereance.
-
Maybe I think those quotes on the eyes should be reexamined.
-
Maybe I think those quotes on the eyes should be reexamined.
Ba dum tssss! :-)
-
Dagmar had been described as both gentle and bossy at diffident times.
-
Robert Massie says in Nicholas and Alexandra that Marie had brown eyes. Greg King says in a post
on kingandwilson.com that her eyes were blue. Which one is correct?
They look brown in the portraits with which I am familiar. However, I know of instances in which dark
blue eyes look brown on film except in extreme closeup. It may be the same with color reproductions of portraits.
Thanks.
-
On looking again at the portraits reproduced in this topic, I think they're probably blue.
Sorry.
-
That is so confusing...
-
how tall was she? I know she was quite short? but how exactly?
-
I would think about 5 to 5'2. Her husband was at least 6 to 6'5. I would think...
-
I have been wondering the same thing about her height. She was quite small. I'd assume 5ft3 going by photos?
-
Young Maria:
(http://imageshack.us/a/img692/8804/dsc996820.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/692/dsc996820.jpg/)
-
Probably, her eyes were dark blue...
RealAnastasia
-
Yes. I think they mixed up the miscarriage with Alexander. The fact that there is no photo of Alexander complicated things. Even her sister Alix posed in a photo with her baby son Eddy.
There is a photo of Alexander. It's been reproduced several times. I think it's a post-mortem shot of him surrounded by flowers with a little cap.
-
Cannot find it ...
-
It's on his Wikipedia page. Have a look...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Alexander_Alexandrovich_of_Russia
-
Thanks. So Sad. He was a beautiful baby from his photograph. :-(
-
He really was a darling looking thing. I've always found Marie F so tragic in that respect--the loss of all 4 sons, 4 of her 6 total children. Then 5 of her grandchildren on top of it.
The article says: "He died of meningitis in 1870, one month before his first birthday. "The doctors maintain he did not suffer, but we suffered terribly to see and hear him," His parents had him posthumously photographed and sketched to remember him, therefore it is likely that the only existing photograph of Grand Duke Alexander is the one to the right, of the infant in his coffin surrounded by flowers."
Almost all of Christian IX's children (with the exception of Frederick VIII & Waldemar) suffered the loss of multiple children:
Queen Alexandra--Alexander John and Albert Victor
Empress Marie--Nicholas, Alexander, George, Michael
Thyra--Christian and George
George I--Olga and Alexandra
-
Indeed. However in Dagmar's case it was the revolution rather than disease that took away Nicky & Misha.
-
Obviously. Each of the 4 siblings lost 2 children to illness/physical ailment or injuries following an accident in George Wilhelm's case. Marie lost 2 more children additionally. The point was, that's a lot of tragedy.
-
Yes. as you pointed out Freddy & Valdemar escaped tit.
-
I thought Alexander died almost after his birth. So if he died a month before his first birthday, there must be more images of him, since their brothers had several images as babies.
Let hope they pop up soon, it would be great see that baby alive. Seeing the PM image, you can tell he was beautiful!
-
Yes. The thing is that he died so young helped Dagmar get over it a bit more quickly. But I do understand why she became possessive of her surviving children (especially she also lost George).
-
I thought Alexander died almost after his birth. So if he died a month before his first birthday, there must be more images of him, since their brothers had several images as babies.
Let hope they pop up soon, it would be great see that baby alive. Seeing the PM image, you can tell he was beautiful!
I'm convinced there are photos of Alexander somewhere. Maybe just collecting dust in some archives. I find it hard to believe there were many photos of the other children, but none of him. That said, I believe Alexander and Marie traveled a great deal during baby Alexander's first year, so there's a possibility there weren't photos.
-
Maybe there could be some of Alexander and Nicholas together.
-
On the siteallworldwars.com there is a section on Russo-Japanese war photos by Victor Bulla. One of them is a picture of what I think is Marie-Fed in front of her hospital train with some of her staff. It has the same writing on as a picture of her WW I era train in the Imperial transportation section. I don't have the computer skills to post it here but I thought you all would like to know.
-
On the siteallworldwars.com there is a section on Russo-Japanese war photos by Victor Bulla. One of them is a picture of what I think is Marie-Fed in front of her hospital train with some of her staff. It has the same writing on as a picture of her WW I era train in the Imperial transportation section. I don't have the computer skills to post it here but I thought you all would like to know.
There is no Empress Maria Fedorovna in those photos. Only her daughter GDSs Xenia with the staff of her train, and the other picture shows only staff of the Empress' train.
-
Sad. Thanks for info. :(
-
A new version of the c1881 photo of MF in court dress that surfaced on eBay recently.
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/20/42/23/2042230e1fbbcd8599c1ef401e539f84.jpg
-
Thanks for that photo, Katmaxoz : ) That’s new for me as a photo, but it seems like it became a basis for a portrait made of her (if I recall it right?)
-
Thanks for that photo, Katmaxoz : ) That’s new for me as a photo, but it seems like it became a basis for a portrait made of her (if I recall it right?)
I think it was. There's a few different versions of this photo which has turned up in the last few years. I suspect there is a full length one that was taken and used for her formal painted portrait done at the same time....bu the photo hasn't surfaced yet..
-
I think the portrait had her smiling...
-
There is an interesting cigarette case coming up for sale in the Tennants Spring Fine Arts Sale 2014 at the end of the month.
The accompanying letter which can be read on the page detailing the lot ( Lot 394) describes how a Mrs Walter Wall from Charlotte North Carolina was stranded at the hotel Inghleterra. (actually the Hotel d'Angleterre) due to the outbreak of war. At the same time MF arrived, from Berlin, where she had been refused access back to Russia by the Kaiser. It would appear the Dowager Empress and Mrs Wall became acquainted and on leaving for Russia the Dowager Empress made a gift to Mrs Wall of a small cigarette case. The accompanying letter is beautifully written and, I feel, captures the characteristics of MF as described in the book "Little Mother of Russia". The whole story seems to hang together on number of levels. Prince Yussupov confirms his presence in the hotel at the time in his own writings.
I thought some of the members may be interested in seeing this piece which has real Romanov connections and is being auctioned Ina provincial English auction house rather than the lavish Faberge items which come up for sale in Sotheby's and Bonhams. The cigarette case is rather beautiful being well illustrated along with the letter which is dated 1936.
-
I think there is a market for it.
-
Maria Fyodorovna and her sister-in-law Olga Konstantinovna
(http://cs618930.vk.me/v618930079/9c4c/AWYvvN_6GAo.jpg)
-
Maria Fyodorovna and her sister-in-law Olga Konstantinovna
Lovely photo Ally. A new one for me. Thank you for sharing it
-
Maria Feodorovna is my favorite Romanov!
Yes she could be selfish and stubborn and maybe she did gossip too much but she really was the perfect consort. She really complemented her husband and softened all the ruff edges. It's amazing how their marriage worked even though as her daughter Olga said they had absolutely NOTHING in common. She may not have been an intellectual like Empress Frederik but she did have a knack for common sense. I think a lot of what she advised her son during the first years of his reign on policy and who to trust was pretty much for the most on point. She definitely seems to be full of contradictions and such but Russia was really lucky to get her!
People usually said her sister Alexandra was the real beauty but I think Maria was very beautiful as well. Although when I look at her picture the first thing that comes to mind is she looks cute. So in my opinion her nickname Minnie really did fit her!
The last years of her life were so sad and even though she had Olga (and her family) with her as well as loyal servants it just seems like such a lonely end, especially for a woman who loved to be the center of attention. I recently received "HVIDØRE - A Royal Retreat" by Coryne Hall/Senta Driver and reading about her last years definitely confirmed my feeling that she was probably one of the most tragic royals ever. To become a window so young, to lose four sons and five grandchildren and then to hear about all though imposter's! Most of all to be run out of and exiled from the country she came to love so much after living there for over 50 years is just terrible and I can't imagine going through any of it. She was definitely a mighty strong woman!
-
Minny was the most bossy of the three Danish sisters, but she also had a heart and many acts of kindness attributed to her. Compared to her daughter-in-law, at least she knew how to have fun and laugh. Her sense of humor had been recorded in family memoirs already. Moreover she was also a real person who loved beautiful things and gossip...
-
Maria Feodorovna definitely was bossy and that's probably part of why she was able to survive in the ruthless Russian court. She may have been a small woman but at heart she was a lion. I think Alexandra and Thyra could have been successful in their own way as Russian Empresses too but Maria was definitely the best fit.
She definitely had the heart, wits and common sense to be successful. She was anti-Semite yet showed great kindness to Jews and then supported the liberal ministers during her son's reign because she knew that's what Russia needed despite it being the opposite of what her husband championed. She knew what ways the wind was blowing and what had to be done. If Maria Feodorovna was consort to Nicholas I think a lot things would have ended differently.
Nobody ever put Minny in a corner!!! :D
-
Minny was sharp and alert, much more than obstinate & sickly Alicky.
-
Maria with Mary, Duchess of York and Sophie, Crown Princess of Greece in Denmark
(http://38.media.tumblr.com/fe855dccf4f3d6414895c84e1d1e47e2/tumblr_n3kep9p8UL1rqdmblo1_500.png)
And this portrait is new to me. Anyone know who painted it?
(http://38.media.tumblr.com/8b71f029e940daca64166822a3e06431/tumblr_n3jfa6DSpo1qiu1coo1_500.jpg)
-
No idea. Just came out recently...shown I mean.
-
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Maria_Feodorovna_with_her_children_Xenia_and_Michael.jpg/282px-Maria_Feodorovna_with_her_children_Xenia_and_Michael.jpg)
Royal Collection
Is there a better quality version of this one?
(http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/236x/62/3f/56/623f56b392c9bf876a1dac7691cdb6c0.jpg)
-
I do not recall seeing this one
(http://feb-web.ru/feb/rosarc/pictures/vka-365.jpg)
-
At Spala
(https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/9652/97833783.9bb/0_105128_9507c51d_orig)
Source: http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/4940966/post327414544
-
(http://russkiymir.ru/export/sites/default/russkiymir/ru/magazines/archive/2012/04/graphic/58_3.jpg)
Can anyone tell me who is the child on Queen Olga´s lap please?
Source http://www.russkiymir.ru/media/magazines/article/99711/
-
I think is her youngest son...prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark
-
Absolutely !
-
Thank you all for the replies!
This one is new for me!
(http://stat17.privet.ru/lr/09256ee1fb69c06088417f6e87bc8902)
Foud here: http://il-ducess.livejournal.com/254612.html?thread=6063252
-
(http://cs622920.vk.me/v622920079/17d0d/OUyW-v156_o.jpg)
(http://cs622920.vk.me/v622920079/17d04/KpPcB7XdcyM.jpg)
http://vk.com/club35562918
-
(http://images1.cdn.k.dk/sites/default/files/2013/01/335577.jpg)
http://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/bagsiden/et-overset-kongepar-dukker-frem-af-glemslen
-
(http://www.kongehuset.no/aim/kongehuset2/files/2/a/f/d940aab2ecdf40dea7823466d28ef50929b73e5dc8/2afd940aab2ecdf40dea7823466d28ef50929b73e5dc8.jpg)
http://www.kongehuset.no/artikkel.html?tid=101721
-
(http://www.fotohistorie.com/uploads/1/1/2/2/11226425/8098482_orig.jpg)
http://www.fotohistorie.com/kejserinde-dagmar-af-rusland.html
-
Maria Feodorovna at Olga's second wedding to Nikolai Kulikovsky.
(http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/1724/tbsi.jpg)
And here is the dress she wore at the wedding
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0JerTCMq1QQ/UmF9Z8AGSpI/AAAAAAAAACo/DZeWf4an7s8/s1600/DSC08270.JPG)
http://maikenen.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-exhibition-denmark-and-zars-of.html
-
While the first one is well known, the other two are new to me. Anyone knows who the lady is? The pictures look almost informal with little Nicky lying around :-)
(http://cs624223.vk.me/v624223079/278a1/EZA3ZZ_Zr5E.jpg)
Source http://vk.com/club35562918
-
Wow what a great find Ally! I have never seen the ones with Nicholas on the floor. The way he's lying down makes it look very informal
Is there a bigger version? Unfortunately its a closed community so I can't view them in the link.
-
While the first one is well known, the other two are new to me. Anyone knows who the lady is? The pictures look almost informal with little Nicky lying around :-)
(http://cs624223.vk.me/v624223079/278a1/EZA3ZZ_Zr5E.jpg)
Source http://vk.com/club35562918
The other woman looks very much like Countess Alexandra Apraxina, later Princess Obolenskyaya, a very devoted friend of the Empress.
-
Lovely photos!
The other woman looks very much like Countess Alexandra Apraxina, later Princess Obolenskyaya, a very devoted friend of the Empress.
That is Aprak? Interesting. I'd never seen her photo before this.
-
(http://cs622921.vk.me/v622921079/3230b/9MB9UzjM6Eg.jpg)
-
Where did you find that Ally?
I've seen some pretty bad sketches of her but this one doesn't look much like her at all
-
I found it here http://vk.com/club35562918
I agree it looks nothing like Minnie. I only recognized her because of the hairstyle which she wore in some of her photos.
-
Its one by Jacotin i believe.
-
Thank you so much for these rare finds Ally-didi. It's always a pleasure to see more of my favorite Tiny Empress.
The photos of Maria and Nikolai have always been so interesting to me as they are so candid for formal portraits and even for informal portraits. The photo of her giving him a back ride really gives you a feel for how she must have felt about her darling baby boy, in my opinion.
-
(http://oi62.tinypic.com/2cysj81.jpg)
(http://i60.tinypic.com/2wd1t2b.jpg)
(http://i58.tinypic.com/2ngbk28.jpg)
-
Lovely pics!
Who is the young girl in the photo with MF and Alexandra? It looks like their niece Maria Georgievna, Willy and Olga's daughter. It kind of looks like their sitting on her!
-
It is Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark. I think they are all sitting on her lap Maria Sisi everyone hand in hand
-
(https://pp.userapi.com/c604829/v604829168/48177/nFWhJvulENw.jpg)
-
Goethe and Empress Marie Echo Our Century
Empress Marie and a lawnmower!
https://winterpalaceresearch.blogspot.ca/2017/05/goethe-and-empress-marie-echo-our.html
Joanna