Imperial Postcards

[Ally Kumari]

[tom_romanov]

i just bought a book called ' postcards from the Russian revolution' I'll post the pictures tomorrow if anybody wants to see them?

[Ally Kumari]

Of course we do!

[Ally Kumari]

More postcard:

[nena]

These are fantastic, Ally!

[Carolath Habsburg]

Ps: just for the record. some of the pictures posted here are not postcards, they re CDV (carte de visite )

[Ally Kumari]

Well,never heard of those... Is there really a big difference? BTW - the picture you posted is great!

[Carolath Habsburg]

Thanks!

Well..CDV is a format of photography very common in mid xIX century  and other format posted here are Cabinet cards. Postcards are... postcard (in this case, real photo postcards)

Ex

This is a cabinet card

[Ally Kumari]

[Ally Kumari]

Imperial couple

[Alexandre64]

Alexandra:

[Ally Kumari]

Beautiful!

Nicky and Alix - engagement picture

[nena]

I agree.

Aleksei Nicholaievich Romanov. (this photo deserves to be here. )

[Ally Kumari]

Defnitiely so! I´m probably going to colour it because it´s one of the best picture of Alexei I´ve seen.

[Olga Maria]

O it's my first time to see his name written in Russian. Thanks, nena.