Marie Feodorovna, Alexander III and Nicholas (Nixa)

[Eric_Lowe]

Sad...Maybe one day they would do English too.  

[Romanov_fan]

For the most part, I think he was. Perhaps he one fling or two, but there is no hard evidence. It's possible, and that he was very discreet about it. But he certainly was a better example of marriaage than any other Russian Czar until his son. His marriage didn't start as a love match, but it was his choice to marry her ( I believe she wasn't just passed onto him as his dead brother's fiance), and that they came to have a very mutually affectionate marriage, just a bit short of a love match.

[James1941]

An author who was doing research for a book or article about the Dowager Empress related the story of when he went to the Anichov Palace he was granted access to the contents of the empress' rooms which had been kept in storage for all these many years. Granted unlimited access to view her belongings he was amazed at the huge number of photographs of Nixa which the curator told him had been in Marie's bedroom and boudoir. Evidently she never got over her love of him and cherished his memory long after his death. And all because of a little silly play fight and the sharp edge of a table.
I apologize as I am still trying to find the source of this story. Bear with me, please.

[royal_netherlands]

[loulia]

Hi everybody, I'm looking for informations about Sasha and Minnnie's wedding day: who were there? Do we still have photos or paints? where did it took place? Did they went in honeymoon after? I mean they travelled? And that was a travel for hollidays or in order to meet important people of this time and to make the new couple quite popular?
Thank you for your answers and if it's possible, I really enjoy to see a picture of them on this day.

[Svetabel]

As for the pictures of the wedding ceremony - a long ago I started a thread "Weddings of the Romanovs", and seems now it's gone  Anyway here are 2 parts of the painting (watercolour) by a court artist Mihaly Zichy.

The bridal couple



The guests

[Svetabel]

The ceremony took place October 28, 1866, at the Chapel of the Winter palace. The newlyweds did not have a honeymoon actually but they went to visit Maria's relaltives in Denmark in spring 1867 (a sort of vacation in fact).

[loulia]

thank you svetabel! The pictures are wonderul!

[Ena]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Marie's parents couldn't afford to attend.

[Svetabel]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Marie's parents couldn't afford to attend.

yes, they did not attend the ceremony.

[dmitri]

They could have afforded to attend the wedding but not the entertainment expected of them as a byproduct of attending. They therefore chose not to attend. Denmark was not a wealthy kingdom.

[loulia]

why the Russian governement didn't pay for them? It was probably very sad for Minnie to live this day without her parents, I'm sure she was able to ask Sasha to make something to help her parents. Didn't she?

[Belochka]

why the Russian governement didn't pay for them? It was probably very sad for Minnie to live this day without her parents, I'm sure she was able to ask Sasha to make something to help her parents. Didn't she?

Why should the Russians have done so? MF was not in any position to seek such a request from Alexander II. Fundamentally it would have been most inappropriate to have done so.

Margarita

[Vecchiolarry]

Hi,

Thank you very much for supplying those pictures.  They are beautiful!!

I believe Dagmar's brothers, Frederick and Waldemar, accompanied her to Russia.  Iread that somewhere but can't remember where.
Can anybody verify this?

Also, it would be fun to try and identify some of the guests present.
I'm sure we all can pick out Alexander II and Maria Alexandrovna.
I think the man holding the crown over Sasha's head is his brother Alexei....  Am I right?

Also, the two young boys in the front of "the guests" picture must be Paul and Sergei???

Who else can we identify??

Larry

[dmitri]

The following information comes from 'A Royal Family' by Anna Lerche and Marcus Mandal :

"The lavish wedding was held in St.Petersburg and followed by a ball at the Winter Palace. ... Here the Tsar could easily give parties accommodating up to 3000 people. The wealth was unimaginable." (p.172) - hardly surprising then that the King and Queen of Denmark could not compete.

"The bride's parents did not attend the wedding. They simply could not afford to mingle with the extravagant, imperial Russians and plainly did not wish to appear as the poor in-laws from provincial Denmark. King Christian IX and Queen Louise settled for an inexpensive solution : they sent a number of telegrams and exchanged honours with the Russians. On the other hand the new generation of Glucksburgs were handsomely represented in St. Petersburg. Dagmar's favourite sister, Alexandra, was expecting and had to stay in Britain, but her husband, the Prince of Wales, appeared as the first-ever British royal representative in the Russian empire. Also present was Dagmar's eldest brother, Crown Prince Frederik (VIII) of Denmark." (p.172-173)

On page 173 there is a colour reproduction of the painting of the wedding.