Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovitch,his 1st wife Alexandra & their family

[Vecchiolarry]

Hi,

Somehow 1860 seems like yesterday and 1960 seems so long ago - go figure!!!

I guess that proves the old axiom that all time is just relative!!!!!

Larry

[Svetabel]

GDss Alexandra with her mother,Queen Olga

[Laura_]

GDss Alexandra with her mother,Queen Olga

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v433/feomarie/Rarefind/alixolg1a.jpg

That is a very beautiful mother & daughter image. The resemblance is striking. Both of them had very beautiful, tender eyes. It is what I like most about them. : )

[Svetabel]

GDss Alexandra with her mother,Queen Olga

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v433/feomarie/Rarefind/alixolg1a.jpg

That is a very beautiful mother & daughter image. The resemblance is striking. Both of them had very beautiful, tender eyes. It is what I like most about them. : )

Yes, both had tender eyes, though for me Queen Olga looked more not of this world.

[Forum Admin]

We recently acquired a book from GD Alexandra Georgievna's personal library, with her cypher embossed in gold on the cover. A Greek religious tract, written in French.

[Svetabel]

GDss Alexandra with her daughter Maria, and mother.

[bestfriendsgirl]

Poor Maria - I really think she suffered most from Alexandra G.'s death. She needed a mother and Ella, as good a person as she was, just couldn't have that kind of relationship with her. She probably would have been better off with GD Paul and Princess Paley in France.
 

[Svetabel]

A bit larger version of Alexandra G. with GDss Elizaveta Fedorovna

[bestfriendsgirl]

Thanks - it's a great photo and such darling outfits! 

[rachel5a]

Alexandra was buried in the Fortress of S.Peter and S. Paul in St. Petersbug. In 1940, King George of Grece contracted the promess he had done to his grand mother  Queen Olga, and Alexandra was reburied in Greece, in Tatoi, as her mother wanted. Queen Olga didn´t want that her loved daughter stayed in Russia, the country where so many members of her family were assesinated.

Did her children GD Maria and GD Dmitri attend this ceremony in 1940 (or was it 1939?).

[Rodney_G.]

Did her children GD Maria and GD Dmitri attend this ceremony in 1940 (or was it 1939?).
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It's good that the reburial took place when it did because within a year (1941) both Greece and Russia would be at war and a transfer of a coffin would have been impossible for them to arrange.

[Svetabel]

Alexandra in 1891.Peterhof.

[Svetabel]

Newly-engaged couple Pavel and Alexandra with her mother.1888 year.

[Sara Araújo]

I've been reading Alex Voklov's memoirs right here, at the Alexander Time Machine, and I came across a very interesting information, which I'd never heard before:

"In the autumn of that same year, 1894, Grand Duke Paul was to go to England, accompanied by Grand Duke Serge Alexandrovich. The reason for the voyage was the arranged marriage of Grand Duke Paul to one of the English Royal Princesses. (...) As I already said, the reason for the journey to England was the eventual marriage of Grand Duke Paul to one of the English princesses. However, that plan was never realized; the Grand Duke and the Princess, it was said, were not able to find "mutual affinity in their characters." We returned to Petersburg at the beginning of autumn.

Does anyone know who this Princess was?

[Kalafrana]

Two possibilities in terms of age and unmarried state were Victoria of Wales (born 1868) and Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (born 1870) neither of whom ever married. Victoria's sister Maud may also have been a possibility, as she didn't marry until July 1896.

Ann