Well, first of all maybe you will call me crazy and say "Nadeshda, just wants to come up with something great!", but I do not want to make myself important, cause when I noticed this with my mum and Grandmother we were pretty astonished.
See his link here:
http://www.jcosmas.com/cdvs2.htmlThe first CDV is titled "Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine", known as "Ella". It is sold now. But this girl not Ella. Her name was actually Rachel Kisch, her father was selling fabrics, like silk, fine fabrics and the family was of Jewish origine, mainly having their residence in Czechoslovakia, Prague, but they had relatives in Hamburg and Darmstadt. Rachel was the youngest of five children, and wa sent to the relatives at Darmstadt for a while, after her mother started to suffer from a muscle disease- I do not know the English term for it, but people die of it. Rachel was the baby of the family, her sibling were older than her. The photo shows her in 1875- special about her was her blonde hair, as it was a saying in the family "Who did place the blonde baby in the storch`s nest?" to her mother, when they saw Rachel- (in Germany parents tell their little children that babys are brought by a storch or they do grow in cabbages!
). Why do I know? Because my Grandmother is a niece of the famous German author Egon Erwin Kisch and we have done much family research when they wanted to close the Egon Erwin Kisch- House in East Berlin in (if I remember it right) 1992. My mother and I have been there and decided to find more about the family tree/part, as my Grandmother does not imagine so much about her uncle, who visited the family very often. But we could find something about Rachel in the family books, documents. And the same photo like shown on this webpage.
So I wonder now who did mix it up with Ella and who is the poor one who bought it. It s a nice collectors piece if you collect something about Kischs family- but it s not Ella.
I ve tried to contact the administrator of the webpage, but he does not reply to my emails.
Hope you do not think that I would be the one with the raised finger here, but it s just funny to find that photo- Rachel would have been thankful to have been a Royal person!
