Concerning Reply # 283: IF (and this is a big "IF") the photograph of the child is still in/on its original cardboard frame/backing, IMO it is not Russian, because the crown is clearly NOT the Russian Imperial crown (to which GD Pavel A. would have been entitled even as a child). Even allowing for "artistic llicense," I have never seen the Russian Imperial Crown depicted as such. Off-hand, the crown here appears to be close in depiction to the Italian or one of the other European crowns, such as Spain. (Of course, Italy and Spain were never "Imperial" per se, thus the labeling as an "imperial child" would not be correct for Italy or Spain.) All in all, until it is properly identified, it is entirely POSSIBLE that it is a pastiche OR that it is not even a royal or imperial child, but simply a period photograph of a well-born child, placed in/on the frame. AP
