Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna, Duchess of Edinburgh and Coburg

[Carolath Habsburg]

The link  is not working with clicking it.

[Luc]

http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/fcgi-bin/db2www/descrPage.mac/descrPage?selLang=English&indexClass=PICTURE_EN&PID=JRR-7038&numView=1&ID_NUM=24&thumbFile=%2Ftmplobs%2FWP%249WTE0EE_408SZF26.jpg&embViewVer=last&comeFrom=quick&sorting=no&thumbId=6&numResults=40&tmCond=maria+alexandrovna&searchIndex=TAGFILEN&author=Zichy%2C%26%2332%3BMihaly

Introduction of Grand Princess Maria Alexandrovna to Shah Nasir al-Din in the Winter Palace
Zichy, Mihaly.
Series "Nasir al-Din, Shah of Persia, visiting St Petersburg in 1873"

I hope it works now !

[Ally Kumari]

Here it is "just like that"

Introduction od Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna to Shah Nasir al Din in the Winter palace

[CountessKate]

There is a really lovely Winterhalter portrait of Marie Alexandrovna as a girl on the website of the royal family of Serbia (alas rather small).  I think it must have been made around 1866/7, i.e. when she was 13 or 14 and before she put her hair up.  Winterhalter has done his usual job of prettifying her, but nevertheless one can start to see where some of her daughters got their looks.

Apologies if it's shown somewhere else in the forum but I've combed through all the references to Winterhalter and not seen it!

http://www.royalfamily.org/artwork/06_09/art_eng.html

[Vecchiolarry]

Hi,

A charming portrait and one can see she was a pretty young girl.
I can see Mignon in her and to a certain degree Missy too....

Larry

[Ally Kumari]

Prince Alfred with his bride ice-skating

[violetta]

some pictures of the coburg castle - COBURG VESTA (from my visit, august 2009)




a huge castle, the second biggest in europe (if i`m not mistaken), consisting of a few levels - hope its floors or levels are visible







entrance to the castle

[violetta]

inner yard of coburg vesta

[violetta]

inner yard coburg vesta

[Eric_Lowe]

Yes. Although she lived for a long time at the Edinbrugh Palais in town.

[violetta]

ehrenburg palace in coburg
this is a place where ducky`s wedding with ernst luwig took place.this is where nikolay and alexandra got engaged

[Eric_Lowe]

Yes. Baby Bee got married to Ali in that chapel too. The Edinburgh Palais faced Ehrenburg Palace.

[Gabriella]

Hello, Violetta,

thankd for the nice pictures of the Veste Coburg and Ehrenburg Palace. They are very interesting. Did you also get a chance to see the museums inside?

Have you been to Rosenau Castle (in Rödenthal not far from Coburg) where the family of Alfred and Marie spent their summers? There is also a museum inside. There they have a lot of pictures of the Edinburghs and in public guidances they also give information about them.

An interesting castle in that region is also Schloss Callenberg (engl. Callenberg Castle ) which was the summer residence of Charles-Edward of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha until 1945. It has been restored in 1998 and lodges the collection of art, pieces of porcelaind and furniture. There also a lot of information about the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family. I am not quite sure but I think it's still owned by the family.

Regards, Gabriella.

[violetta]

Hello, Gabriella

i visted coburg vesta. unfortunately,i didn`t visit schloss erenhburg as it was closed.i will post some pictures but their quality isn`t good `cause museum  visitors weren`t allowed to use flashes.i stayed less time in coburg than i planned an couln`t visit the places that i planned

[Eric_Lowe]

There is a nice booklet sold in the gift shop as well as nice postcards. I still need to visit Roseneau, the favourite place of Prince Albert. Indeed, Callenberg is still owned by the Saxr-Coburg family. I was lucky to be in it during the Queen Victoria Exhibition. The graves of Charley & Dick's children are buried in the garden there. Also in Coburg are the ceremitary of the Saxe-Coburgs and their cousins the Saxe-Coburg-Koharys. "foxy" Ferdinand of Bulgaria's house was there too. I saw all of that in one visit.