Looking for help with Picture(s) and/or Captions

[Svetabel]

This portrait hangs in the palace of Grand Duke Vladimir in Sankt Peterburg...Can this be someone from the family of Maria Pavlovna,or maybe lady in waiting?She doesn't look like someone from the Imperial family...

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k126/auersperg21/Who.jpg

Any thoughts?

Not from the Imperial Family and that could be any noble woman from the beginning of the 1900s. Many portraits in the restored and open to public Palaces are often just a beautiful covering of the wall - to freshen the interior.

[Marc]

Oh,I see...thank you Sveta!Maybe I was hoping that we could discoverer someone new but in vain :-(

[blessOTMA]

Tea at the farm: Can anyone tell me who the young men with the family and N. P. Sabline ? They have the same uniform it seems...can they simply be young men from the yacht? They seem very at ease with the family and the family seems at  ease with them. They standing behind  Sabline in one of the photos...so perhaps they are connected with him ? His nephews? If simply Standart crew members, I wonder why they were chosen...they are seated at the table...not serving etc.  The photos are from Yale and Anya captioned them "tea  at the farm" ....1914 of course. Thanks in advance

[voyageroffreedom]

can anyone post this photo if they know what i'm talking about?
ages ago i found it- on here i think- and its of alix and nicky sitting on (what i think was the standart) although it could have been polar star i suppose, they were both sitting on the slanted side of the deck  boats are not my area of knowledge, i don't know if it has a proper name, but looked like a raised edge at a diagonal slant to me-  alix was closer to the camera than nicky, they were both sitting  on this slant, both dressed in dark clothes- alix in a large hat- i think- it was ages ago- her ankles crossed. thankyou so much to anyone who can help me! its been driving me crazy!  i take my hat off to you if you have a clue what i'm on about!

TunaEars do you mean this picture? It’s the only picture I can think of that fit your description:

[Marc]

Is this GD Ekaterina Mikhailovna by painter Jury Wassiljew?

http://www.muensterlandzeitung.de/storage/pic/mdhl/artikelbilder/lokales/mz-mlz-evz-gz/muensterland-zeitung/1917568_1_Wassiljew_Herzog_-_Herzogin_Mecklenburg-Strelittzkich_der_Abendspaziergang.jpg

[Svetabel]

Is this GD Ekaterina Mikhailovna by painter Jury Wassiljew?

http://www.muensterlandzeitung.de/storage/pic/mdhl/artikelbilder/lokales/mz-mlz-evz-gz/muensterland-zeitung/1917568_1_Wassiljew_Herzog_-_Herzogin_Mecklenburg-Strelittzkich_der_Abendspaziergang.jpg

Hmmm...good question!...There were no a lot of Herzogins of Mecklenburg-Strelitz...but the painting is puzzled me actually.

[Svetabel]

Is this GD Ekaterina Mikhailovna by painter Jury Wassiljew?

http://www.muensterlandzeitung.de/storage/pic/mdhl/artikelbilder/lokales/mz-mlz-evz-gz/muensterland-zeitung/1917568_1_Wassiljew_Herzog_-_Herzogin_Mecklenburg-Strelittzkich_der_Abendspaziergang.jpg

Hmmm...good question!...There were no a lot of Herzogins of Mecklenburg-Strelitz...but the painting is puzzled me actually.

Marc, I think now those are really Ekaterina M. and her husband Georg of Mecklenbourg-Strelitz in the 1850s.

[Marc]

Thank you Sveta...I thought the same but wasn't sure!

[historyfan]

I'm looking for a specific picture of GD Olga Alexandrovna and Nikolai Kulikovsky.

It's one that can be found in the first edition of The Last Grand Duchess, and it's labelled as the couple celebrating their silver wedding anniversary.

My copy, unfortunately, is missing all of its photographs, so I don't know which picture this is.

Does anyone have it, and can post it?  It would be most appreciated.

[Marc]

Although painted in 1904(she married 5 years later),could this be maybe Maria Pavlovna junior?

http://www.artnet.com/artists/lotdetailpage.aspx?lot_id=ACA474EBC1087292

[Svetabel]

Although painted in 1904(she married 5 years later),could this be maybe Maria Pavlovna junior?

http://www.artnet.com/artists/lotdetailpage.aspx?lot_id=ACA474EBC1087292

I think that couldn't be her...no real resemblance. The question is that who labelled the portrait "Olga of Sweden"...

[Marc]

The real question...and why?Based on...?And the name of Olga with Swedish royal family?

The only connection with Russia and Swedish royal family was Maria,so somehow I assumed it could be her...

On the other thread(Scandinavian Royals) I posted the same question,Rani posted a comparative picture and thinks it could be Maria...

Here is a link,scroll own for Rani's post and tell what you think:

http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=3439.0

[Svetabel]

The real question...and why?Based on...?And the name of Olga with Swedish royal family?

The only connection with Russia and Swedish royal family was Maria,so somehow I assumed it could be her...

On the other thread(Scandinavian Royals) I posted the same question,Rani posted a comparative picture and thinks it could be Maria...

Here is a link,scroll own for Rani's post and tell what you think:

http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/index.php?topic=3439.0

I still think that's not Maria. I don't see any resemblance and also Marie's colouring was not such a brunette type.

[Marc]

Thank you!The caption is very confusing indeed and the years don't match properly :-(

[Sunny]

I'm madly looking for the very first pic of the IF I've seen - the one from which my obsession began!
It was in a italian magazine, some 12 years ago (i know this not relevant at all) but i've lost it (grrr) and, moreover, i've never seen it again - it was not a fake, i'm sure. Maybe it was just very rare.
The resolution was very poor, and it came from one of Anastasia's album - it was partly coloured, most in red and pink, so i think it was Anastasia's colouring (she always used red and pink...)
I know i'm asking you something impossible - just try.
In the pics there were only Nicholas, Aleksandra, and OMA. No Tat'jana nor Aleksej. Aleksandra and Ol'ga were sitting in a carriage, one on front of the other. Nicholas was sitting on the footboard, Marija was standing at a side, near Ol'ga (on the far right, looking at the pic) and Anastasia was leaning to the carriage, just behind her mother - at the far left.
I'm quite sure the year was 1917, during the captivity in Zarskoje: the photo was labelled "The tsar and his family in captivity", but 'im sure not for it, but beacause all the girls - even Anastasija - had their hair gathered up, and they were those kind of clothes they used when they work in the garden during Tsarskoe captivity. Moreover, Nicholas and Aleksandra looked quite old, and very tired.
I know it's so difficult to understand which picture I mean - and now I know it's rare, but it's so important to me.
If anyone has already seen it... i thank you with all my heart!