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Re: Question about and/or Help with Picture(s)
« Reply #270 on: August 07, 2014, 02:44:10 PM »


Which Princess Anna of Prussia is this?  Anna, Landgravine of Hesse or her sister-in-law, Anna of Anhalt-Dessau?  Many thanks!

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Re: Question about and/or Help with Picture(s)
« Reply #271 on: August 30, 2014, 12:19:41 PM »


Which Princess Anna of Prussia is this?  Anna, Landgravine of Hesse or her sister-in-law, Anna of Anhalt-Dessau?  Many thanks!


I think it's Landgravine Anna of Hesse, she wears the order of Luise, this Award was - as far as I know - not given to her sister-in-law Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau.

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Film of Wilhelm II & Ella
« Reply #272 on: June 17, 2016, 03:58:12 PM »
In the "Host of White Duchesses" documentary on FrozenTears - http://www.frozentears.org/Sasha/Spikes/White.Duchesses.01.m4v

Part 1 - 23:30-23:50

Is that Wilhelm on Ella? At first I thought it was Alix but how he is doting on her makes me think it must be Ella. Grin

If anyone watches it who speaks Russian could you tell what it says right in that part please?

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Re: Film of Wilhelm II & Ella
« Reply #273 on: June 17, 2016, 04:20:21 PM »
In the "Host of White Duchesses" documentary on FrozenTears - http://www.frozentears.org/Sasha/Spikes/White.Duchesses.01.m4v

Part 1 - 23:30-23:50

Is that Wilhelm on Ella? At first I thought it was Alix but how he is doting on her makes me think it must be Ella. Grin

If anyone watches it who speaks Russian could you tell what it says right in that part please?

The narrator is simply reading the entries from Tsar Nicholas' diary and letters concerning Wilhelm's visit.
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Re: Film of Wilhelm II & Ella
« Reply #274 on: June 17, 2016, 04:48:01 PM »
Oops of course I meant AND Ella not ON Ella lol

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Re: Question about and/or Help with Picture(s)
« Reply #275 on: July 25, 2016, 07:49:46 PM »
Which Princess Anna of Prussia is this?  Anna, Landgravine of Hesse or her sister-in-law, Anna of Anhalt-Dessau?  Many thanks!


Based on Royal Collection it is a lithograph of Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessau by Gustav Heinrich Gottlieb Feckert (1820-1899):

https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/search#/1/collection/608036/maria-anna-of-anhalt-dessau-princess-of-prussia

and by Carl Mayer:

https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/search#/5/collection/608038/marie-anne-princesse-de-prusse

Feckbert also painted Maria Anna's sister Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessau:

https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/search#/7/collection/610135/agnes


But based on Zvab,it is Maria Anna,Princess of Hesse,whose portrait was done by Carl Mayer (1798-1868):

http://www.zvab.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=15817058906&searchurl=hl%3Don%26tn%3Dcarl%2520anna%2520maria%26sortby%3D20


Just for comparation here is a lithograph of Princess Maria Anna of Hessen-Kassel by Gustav Heinrich Gottlieb Feckert (1820-1899):

https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/610792/anna-of-prussia-princess-of-hesse-kassel
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Re: Question about and/or Help with Picture(s)
« Reply #276 on: September 22, 2016, 01:34:08 PM »
Whose portraits are hanging on the wall next to Gloria?Woman with a tiara?


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Re: Question about and/or Help with Picture(s)
« Reply #277 on: September 23, 2016, 11:58:33 AM »
Bigger version with better close up:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5vfnS-1A7H4/Vl3tew1FbKI/AAAAAAAApcw/PPn7Bn-wExg/s1600/HouseofThurnUndTaxis_cover.jpg

Can anyone recognize the portraits on the wall?

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Re: Film of Wilhelm II & Ella
« Reply #278 on: May 15, 2020, 11:10:58 AM »
In the "Host of White Duchesses" documentary on FrozenTears - http://www.frozentears.org/Sasha/Spikes/White.Duchesses.01.m4v

Part 1 - 23:30-23:50

Is that Wilhelm on Ella? At first I thought it was Alix but how he is doting on her makes me think it must be Ella. Grin

If anyone watches it who speaks Russian could you tell what it says right in that part please?

The narrator is simply reading the entries from Tsar Nicholas' diary and letters concerning Wilhelm's visit.

My command of the Russian language is not good enough to understand the text, so I hope the following makes sense.

To the footage at 23:00-23:25:
On 26 September, 1903 (O.S.), during his stay in Darmstadt, Tsar Nicholas wrote in his diary that “a very beautiful carousel took place in the manege” of the Hessian Dragoon Regiment of which he was the regimental proprietor.

To the footage at 23:30-23:45:
Nicholas visited his Dragoon Regiment again on October 14, 1903 (O.S.). Manfred Knodt’s biography of Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse includes a picture of a Reiterfest of the Tsar's Hessian Dragoons in their barracks area. The photo shows a setting very similar to the one seen in the footage at 23:30-23:50. According to its caption, Empress Alexandra , Princess Irene of Prussia and Princess Alice of Greece attended the event. Ella was not mentioned, as she and Sergei had already left Darmstadt. Kaiser Wilhelm wasn't present either. The gentleman ‘doting’ on Alexandra probably was not Kaiser Wilhelm but may have been the regimental commander, Lt. Col. Werner Freiherr von Waldenfels; neither the footage nor the picture is clear enough to establish the identity of the gentleman.
"The Correspondence of the Empress Alexandra of Russia with Ernst Ludwig and Eleonore, Grand Duke and Duchess of Hesse. 1878-1916"
"Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig and Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine in Italy - 1893"
"Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine - Gebhard Zernin's Festschrift"

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Re: Question about and/or Help with Picture(s)
« Reply #279 on: June 15, 2024, 03:01:32 AM »
Does anybody know who might be the woman in the portrait, painted in Berlin by Fisher in 1906:

https://www.hermann-historica.de/en/auctions/lot/id/1098729

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Re: Question about and/or Help with Picture(s)
« Reply #280 on: July 18, 2024, 03:49:21 PM »
It is indeed a portrait of Cecilie Auguste Marie Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin/Crown Princess of Prussia.  The German to English translation is incorrect.  The word "possibly" in the German description is that it was "possibly" painted from a photograph, not that it is "possibly' her.  It is a very flattering portrait of her.  I didn't know anybody even frequented this site anymore so I am glad I took a look today.  Kind regards, JGP

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Re: Question about and/or Help with Picture(s)
« Reply #281 on: September 11, 2024, 04:51:44 AM »
Thank you for your answer, but it is not Cecilie. It is Duchess Elsa of W?rttemberg, Princess of Schaumburg-Lippe.

https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=wsb&datum=19050225&seite=1&zoom=33