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Re: Grand Duke Konstantin N. and Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna
« Reply #150 on: September 23, 2008, 02:23:01 AM »
Diares of KN? Published?

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« Reply #151 on: September 23, 2008, 03:02:38 AM »
Diares of KN? Published?

Yes, some extracts from his journals of 1856-1861 years as well as his correspondence with his elder brother Alexander II. The book is a rare one as had been published in the 1990s, in Russian.

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« Reply #152 on: September 28, 2008, 10:58:19 PM »
Cousins of Alexandra Iosifovna von Sachsen-Altenburg  I had no idea that she was so closely related to some of these Royals: http://geneweb.inria.fr/roglo?lang=en&m=C&i=127216&v1=2

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Re: Grand Duke Konstantin N. and Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna
« Reply #153 on: September 29, 2008, 01:23:07 AM »
Cousins of Alexandra Iosifovna von Sachsen-Altenburg  I had no idea that she was so closely related to some of these Royals: http://geneweb.inria.fr/roglo?lang=en&m=C&i=127216&v1=2


Most of the German royalties were/are close relatives : )

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« Reply #154 on: September 29, 2008, 06:24:16 PM »
yes all the german royals are closly related but i had know idea she was a 1st cousin to the Queen of Belgium (Marie Henriette)  and some of the Habsburg and Wittselbachs and also a 1st cousin to Queen Mary's father.  I figured she
might be a 3rd or 4th cousin to these royals but not a 1st cousin.  Was she close to the Queen of Belgium or Franz, Duke of Teck.  Any pictures of her with some of her cousins?

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« Reply #155 on: September 30, 2008, 01:01:49 AM »
Was she close to the Queen of Belgium or Franz, Duke of Teck.  Any pictures of her with some of her cousins?

Never seen such pictures. Unlikely she was close to Queen of Belgium of the Tecks.

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« Reply #156 on: February 20, 2009, 04:19:58 AM »
I have put my article on the life of Konstantin Nikolaevich up on the web at

http://www.directarticle.org/Konstantin1.html   and following (19 pages including bibliography)

This is a significantly re-worked version of the article I did for Atlantis in 2005 (which most people won't have read anyway), plus illustrations.
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many; they are few.

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« Reply #157 on: February 20, 2009, 07:20:44 AM »
How well done the article is, Janet, thank you ! The illustrations are great  :)

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« Reply #158 on: February 21, 2009, 04:36:31 AM »
How well done the article is, Janet, thank you ! The illustrations are great  :)

Thanks Luc! - I feel Konstantin gets a rough deal because people tend only to remember him through the stories left by by well-known memoirists (like his grandson Christo!) which show an angry and even brutal man dealing harshly with his wife. In popular history he tends to be shown as a man of action, the product of a happy healthy childhood - and I think this is rather too simple as well, and takes Nicholas's family life rather too much at the face value presented in Victorian books.

For many more excellent pictures, I'd recommend these books: -

Veliki kniaz Konstantin Nikolaevich Romanov, by V.I. Motsardo (Samara: Agniart, 2004)
and Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich - a little exhibition catalogue, published St Petersburg: Abris, 2002.
the published version of K's diary (Perepiska imperatora Aleksandra II s Velikim Kniazem Konstantintom Nikolaevichem; Dnevnik Velikovo Kniazia Konstantina Nikolaevicha. Moscow: Terra, 1994) also has some very unusual images, though the quality of the reproduction isn't so good. The first two are fantastic.
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« Reply #159 on: April 08, 2009, 03:00:28 AM »
GD Konstantin Nikolaevich




Nikolai, Olga and Vera


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Re: Grand Duke Konstantin N. and Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna
« Reply #160 on: April 19, 2009, 09:36:23 PM »
It's really amazing how Olga's face did not change at all from when she young to when she was older.  For most adults it is very difficult to match them to their younger photos, but not for Olga.  



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« Reply #161 on: April 20, 2009, 11:41:25 AM »
It's really amazing how Olga's face did not change at all from when she young to when she was older. 

As well as her naive and somewhat childish nature never did not change.

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Re: Grand Duke Konstantin N. and Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna
« Reply #162 on: April 20, 2009, 11:42:42 AM »
GDss Alexandra Iosifovna in the midle of 1860s (brand new picture for me)


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« Reply #163 on: April 29, 2009, 11:27:07 AM »

GD Vera, GD Elizabeth, Queen Olga and GD Alexandra

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Re: Grand Duke Konstantin N. and Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna
« Reply #164 on: April 29, 2009, 04:16:56 PM »
Are they from a book Ashanti?