Question about and/or Help with Picture(s)

[Sarushka]

I'm away from most of my books at the moment so I can't check for certain, but that photo looks very similar to one that's in The Private World of the Last Tsar.

[CorisCapnSkip]

Also, for good - quality scanned photos, I think Beinecke Library gives many of them from A. Vyrubova's personal albums, also, Jamd.

Thanks, I guess if this turns out not to be from one of theirs, they might know where it is from.  I will also try The Private World of the Last Tzar if I can find a copy.

[Condecontessa]

If I'm not mistaken, that came from a New York Library scan of a book that was published in Russia.

[Sarushka]

If I'm not mistaken, that came from a New York Library scan of a book that was published in Russia.

Aha! You're exactly right:


(page 27 -- scans of the full book are available somewhere on the NYPL website)

[CorisCapnSkip]

Oh, wow, cool.  There must be some button you click to see what resolution a scan is at but I am hazy on that.  I downloaded the scan of the book page and it said 500 KB.  Is this an indication of resolution?  Thanks for any tech help.

[Sarushka]

The higher the resolution, the larger the file size will be, but I don't know exactly how that equates. (A scan with large physical dimensions will also produce a large file size, so it's hard to know for sure.)

[nena]

Here is larger/bigger size of bottom one, 1914:

[CorisCapnSkip]

Can anyone help me with posting a picture to the Forum not already online (like emailing to a member who will post)?  If not, it will have to wait till I get a Facebook account.

[Ally Kumari]

You can only post a picture which is already uploaded to the internet. However you don´t need to have specifically the facebook account. There are other commonly used servers just as www.photobucket.com or imageshack.

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1906 or 1907 ?

[nena]

1906 , from what I have read, since it is a formal one.

[Ally Kumari]

That´s what I though, but wasn´t sure since Alexei is not in a girl´s dress Thank you.

[Sarushka]

I have that series filed as 1907.

[nena]

Then it is contradiction about year formal photos - we know there are 1906 ones, with sisters too, here Aleksei looks bit older, so It s quite possible it is 1907. We agree that he is 2 - 3 years. So, formal shots were taken more often. In his 1907 photos I see different hairstyle (like a haircut he had) but since we don't know month of taking photos, it seems still unlikely.  ;-) Here is one from 1907.

[nena]

Then it is contradiction about year formal photos - we know there are 1906 ones, with sisters too, here Aleksei looks bit older, so It s quite possible it is 1907. We agree that he is 2 - 3 years. So, formal shots were taken more often. In his 1907 photos I see different hairstyle (like a haircut he had) but since we don't know month of taking photos, it seems still unlikely.  ;-) Here is one from 1907.

My sincere apologies, I have considered that photo Ally posted really was taken in 1907. :-)

[nena]

Two questions.

1) A. V's album labeled this one as "Tsarevich with cadets in Military School, 1915" (Peterhof, I think):




But I think it is incorrect. I think that one is only retouched of this one, which shows Aleksei with friend- cadets, Zehnya Makarov, and Vasya Agayev, with Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana, during sailings on the Dnieper River, in 1916 ) I think Grabbe's book says same:



So, what do you think, what is correct -- At Military School in 1915, or near Mogilev in 1916?

2) Date of this Aleksei's photo? 1905 or 1906?



Thanks in advance!