Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna-elder, wife of GD Wladimir

[katmaxoz]

This looks like the same piece. sold again in 2009. It's amazing how many of these jewels keep re-appearing at auction

http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=159563032

[grandduchessella]

Thanks for that link--they do appear to be the same. I would definitely have wanted to hold onto it for longer than 5 years!

[Geglov2-3]

1914

[Geglov2-3]

Примерно какой год фото ?

Фотоателье Царское Село.

[Svetabel]

Примерно какой год фото ?

Фотоателье Царское Село.

It is 1900-1901.

[ashanti01]

Grand Duchess Maria

[Carolath Habsburg]

[Carolath Habsburg]

[Naslednik Norvezhskiy]

I will add the phonetic transcription to the several lengthy attemps at describing her German nickname Miechen: [ˈmiːçən].
Though in "Peterhof ist ein Traum. Deutsche Prinzessinnen in Russland." she is also referred to as Minnchen.

Miechen really looked looked very beautiful in her youth, rather bland in middle age and wonderfully rotund in old age,
judging from this funny picture from a 1913 regimental dinner:


Sans jewels and in uniform, this grande dame (in both meanings of the word!) has something Sovietic about her.... Or is it just her great granddaughter Maria Vladimirovna that shines through? :-)

[Marc]

Her granddaughter Olga was always scared of her because she said that she may not leave the table if she doesn't eat everything from her plate.This habit she always practiced herself and one can see in this picture :-)

[Teddy]

Where did you get this amazing picture?

[Svetabel]

Where did you get this amazing picture?

This amazing picture had been posted by me previously at some other thread.

[Naslednik Norvezhskiy]

OK. I "stole" it from griffith's "The Empress Alexandra Fights Back #3". I hope that's OK.
NB I linked from griffith's photobucket account, not directly from the thread, because that's not good.

BTW thinking about Miechen's rivalry with AF, I am fascinated by the fact that they were enemies and chose widely different paths to uphold Romanov rule and yet both can be accused of playing a major part in the dynasty's downfall.

[Eric_Lowe]

Miechen looks amazing and so alive. It took exile to shorten her life.

[ashdean]

Miechen looks amazing and so alive. It took exile to shorten her life.

It took the tribulations of the revolution and its aftermath...I think she was already far from well by the time she reached exile!