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pouvoir_aux_canard:
Now,  I try to present some pictures from french museums on the theme of the journeys ...

First, several journeys of russian rulers to France :

                  Visite de l'escadron russe à Toulon, le 13 octobre 1893 - the medal was said to be done with the Empress as a model for the Russia and... a french actress as a model for the France !...  There are many others pictures that I have to find in my books ... later




   
                  Pose de la première pierre du Pont Alexandre III à Paris par le Tsar Nicolas II, l'Impératrice et le Président de la République Félix Faure, le 7 octobre 1896 (artist : the painter Alfred Roll  (1846-1919 painting :1899)




                   Le Tsar et la Tsarine en visite à Paris en 1898 . (Auteur : photographer Auguste Boyer (1824-?)







                     
                   Visite officielle des souverains russes en France en 1901 - le Président de la République Emile Loubet accueillant le tsar Nicolas II et l'Impératrice Alexandra Feodorovna lors de la revue militaire passée au camp de Bétheny, 21 septembre 1901 (Auteur : painter Albert Pierre  Dawant  (1852-1923) painting 1905) (I apologize for the french use of the wrong word "Tsar" instead of  "Emperor")





And now two travels from France to Russia

                   The travel of the french painter Gerveix during the period of the coronation of N.2: Le Couronnement de Nicolas II (1868-1918), dernier tsar de Russie (1894-1917) et de l'impératrice Alexandra Féodorowna (1872-1918) en l'Eglise de l'Assomption à Moscou (esquisse) Auteur : painter Henri Gervex (1852-1929)




                     And the travel  of Général Joffre to Russia to meet the chiefs of the russian Armies in 1913.

Krasnoïe Selo (10 au 23 avril 1913)

Some Grands Ducs on these two  pictures ?





the next one is quoted  : Le Tsar Nicolas II entouré des danseuses Olga et Tatiana et d'une délégation d'un régiment de Moscou THATS MEANS : Emperor Nicolas 2 surrounder by the dancers Olga and Tatiana and by a delagation of a moscovite regiment ... it sounds rather strange ... don't you think ???



Now, Nicolas 2 at Krasnoie Selo:






                    to be continued ....  / ...

pouvoir_aux_canard:
during the same period, here is N2 (he seems to be tired) :





this picture is quoted : N2 going to the meeting with Général Joffre :





Now a curious detail on this visit of French Chef d'état -major to Russian Chiefs of the Armies:
this picture with a plane in Krasnoie Selo Camp ! (did N2  went in some plane ? or drived planes ?)





And the last one (on the theme of this visit)  could be interesting because it shows the imperial pavillon in Krasnoie Selo Camp:






Now we are going back with the Time Machine - Year 1884 - :


a french painter goes to St Petersburg and paints the city but also paysants and soldiers ... in Krasnoie Selo Camp: Le bivouac des tirailleurs de la famille impériale au camp de Krasnoie Selo, The painter is  Jean-Baptiste-Edouard Detaille (1848-1912) and someone of the Imperial family buys the painting... so the french Museum of Army has only a photography of it ...




The SAME  painter has good friends in french army ( he is rather specialized in military paintings ) and is introduced to some russian general ; so he paints also : Le tsar Nicolas II commandant une manoeuvre.  Again this painting is bought in Russia ! (and now where is it ? )




                           to be continued again ...........  / ........

pouvoir_aux_canard:
we are still in 1884 ... Now.... there are also the private travels and a Grand Duc with a Grande Duchesse are going in France, to visit the d'Orleans family and chase in their wonderful historical estate of Chantilly... Here they are :

Le Grand duc Vladimir Alexandrovitch Romanov en tenue de la vénerie d'Orléans par le peintre Alexandrovsky 1884 - aquarelle - Who is this painter named Alexandrovsky ? I have no idea ... Did he came in France from Russia with Vladimir Alexandrovitch ?





and here is the Grande Duchesse : Portrait de la Grande duchesse Marie Pavlovna de Russie avec la tenue de l'équipage de Chantilly.   the painter is Alexandre-Petrovitch Sokolov  (1829-1913)...




on her back we can see le Chateau de Chantilly  . Anyway the style of the 2 painting seems  really similar, so I think the two portraits are by Sokolov...


And finally the last journey in the time  machine brings us on the year 1857, period of the second french empire ( with Napoléon 3 and the gracious Empress Eugénie... They have a visitor , Grand Duc Constantin ( Konstantin Nicolaevitch I guess) and the Grand Chambelland receives order to organise an imperial chase : Forêt de Fontainebleau : chasse à courre en l'honneur du Grand Duc Constantin de Russie, le rendez-vous à la croix de Saint-Hérem - 1857. (the drawer is not named )




That's all, folks....

best regards from your devoted

Mr Canard

Imperial.Opal:
Monsieur Canard, many thanks for posting such a wonderful collection, I have never seen these items, much appreciated.

pouvoir_aux_canard:
Thank you, Imperial Opal...

About Chantilly I post something else to help the forum in understanding the situation:

best wiews of Chantilly Castle during the Chase Season (photos)








now a painting of Chantilly chases by Jean-Maxime Claude (1824-1904)





this ones could be photographies that the painter Sokolov Alexandre-Petrovitch (1829-1913)  used in Russia to paintVladimir and Maria (uncertain but possibile) . The two paintings were presented later to Duc and Duchesse de Chartres as a thank for the period of  chasing in Chantilly.








(Chantilly Castle and estate was property of Condé family until the death of the last Prince de Condé (1830). Then the Orléans family heired the estate.)



to be continued with an other travel ..../....

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