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Re: The Vladimirovitchi - discussion and pictures Part 1
« Reply #255 on: June 09, 2008, 02:09:46 PM »
Not a good quality but for me anyway a new one of Elena Vladimirovna




I have this one from a poscard (it also had individual photos of Boris, Miechen and Vladimir). I'll try to upload a better copy for you Svetabel.
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Re: The Vladimirovitchi - discussion and pictures Part 1
« Reply #256 on: June 10, 2008, 01:12:56 AM »
Not a good quality but for me anyway a new one of Elena Vladimirovna




I have this one from a poscard (it also had individual photos of Boris, Miechen and Vladimir). I'll try to upload a better copy for you Svetabel.

Oh, thanks so much!  :)

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Re: The Vladimirovitchi - discussion and pictures Part 1
« Reply #257 on: June 15, 2008, 01:29:10 PM »
Not a good quality but for me anyway a new one of Elena Vladimirovna




I have this one from a poscard (it also had individual photos of Boris, Miechen and Vladimir). I'll try to upload a better copy for you Svetabel.

Oh, thanks so much!  :)

I finally managed to ge it uploaded.



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Re: The Vladimirovitchi - discussion and pictures Part 1
« Reply #258 on: June 16, 2008, 07:34:20 AM »
IMO I see a strong resemblance in Helen to her cousin and sister-in-law Ducky in the above pictures.

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Re: The Vladimirovitchi - discussion and pictures Part 1
« Reply #259 on: June 30, 2008, 06:47:34 AM »
Thank you again Grandduchessella ! :) Do you have also a photograph of Elena?

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Re: The Vladimirovitchi - discussion and pictures Part 1
« Reply #260 on: June 30, 2008, 12:43:04 PM »
This is a famous picture of the ladies at the coronation:



Svetabel advised:  Sitting on the floor: Princess Olga of Wuerttemberg. Sitting (left to right): GDss Alexandra Iosifovna, Duchess Louise of Connaught. Standing (left to right): Princess Elsa of Wuerttemberg, Duchess Vera of Wuerttemberg, GDss Anastasia of Mecklenbourg-Schwerin, GDss Maria Pvalovna-elder, GDss Elena Vladimirovna, GDss Elizaveta Mavrikievna, Princess Elena of Saxe-Altenburg. Back row: pages.

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Re: The Vladimirovitchi - discussion and pictures Part 1
« Reply #261 on: June 30, 2008, 02:07:03 PM »
Thank you again Grandduchessella ! :) Do you have also a photograph of Elena?

Not exactly the 1896 photo but the gown is similar and tiara is the same.


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Re: The Vladimirovitchi - discussion and pictures Part 1
« Reply #262 on: July 03, 2008, 04:00:58 PM »
I also always find this strange about Helen and her marriage prospects...She was young,for me beautiful at that time and very,very wealthy...she schould be more ahead of the rest of European princesses,but she ended up in a love match with a Prince...

One more thing about Helen-she found herself in a love match,but reacted just like her mother when her daughter Olga wanted to marry Prince Paul of Yugoslavia,as she found that a descedant of the Demidov family is about to make aliance with an ''Imperial'' family which she didn't find plesing for her imperial dignity(just like her mother)...but after that his money ''made the way'' to her heart!

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Re: The Vladimirovitchi - discussion and pictures Part 1
« Reply #263 on: July 05, 2008, 10:55:14 AM »
I also think Elena was a very desirable bride. But why was Miechen so arrogant and filled with 'imperial dignity' ? I've never understood that  ??? She herself came only from Mecklenburg...

Actually GDss MP-elder considered herself and the Mecklenbourg  clan more Slavs than the Romanovs meaning her Pomeranian ancestors.

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Re: The Vladimirovitchi - discussion and pictures Part 1
« Reply #264 on: July 06, 2008, 10:25:31 AM »

24 May 1900
Iheard from Minnie about Maria Pavlovna's efforts to marry off her daughter Elena. After the failure with Max [of Baden], they are desperate to find another husband.


Anyway their engagement photos were lovely. :(


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Re: The Vladimirovitchi - discussion and pictures Part 1
« Reply #265 on: July 11, 2008, 03:03:32 PM »
A book about this branch of the Romanov family, would be very pleasant.

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Re: The Vladimirovitchi - discussion and pictures Part 1
« Reply #266 on: July 14, 2008, 01:38:35 AM »
A book about this branch of the Romanov family, would be very pleasant.

I'd say a LARGE book would be great as now there are only many articles and chapters (in the books on the Romanovs) about the Vladimirovitchi as well as a thin rare book on their palace in Saint-Petersbourg.

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Re: The Vladimirovitchi - discussion and pictures Part 1
« Reply #267 on: July 22, 2008, 08:33:39 PM »
If one could get the archievs in St.Petersburg to co-operate... ;)

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Re: The Vladimirovitchi - discussion and pictures Part 1
« Reply #268 on: July 23, 2008, 01:14:01 AM »
If one could get the archievs in St.Petersburg to co-operate... ;)

Ha, one must devote YEARS of the life to work in the archives.

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Re: The Vladimirovitchi - discussion and pictures Part 1
« Reply #269 on: July 23, 2008, 09:14:28 AM »
Not really...Charlotte Zeepvat had gotton stuff from the Russian archievs, but she told me that it operates like the cold war and things smuggle out...Russians books now are also beautifully illustrated as never before. I am hopeful at least.