The Imperial Family and Italy

[hikaru]

I would like to start a new thread about the travel, life, home of Romanovs in Italy.
I would like to start from a question about  Villa Sciarra in Rome where KR lived in 1881 and where he met often with Tchaikowsky.
Is this Villa still exist?

[hikaru]

I have found out that the address in the letter was written as: Villa Sciarra. D. Pietro in Montorio Roma.

[hikaru]

Pavel 1 liked to visit  "Antico Caffee Greco" in Roma.
This oldest caffee still exists.

[hikaru]

KR was at Genova on September 1895. He wrote a poetry about Genova Sea.
The name of the verse: "By the sea".

[gem_10]

Serge visited Italy before his marriage to Ella in 1884.

[hikaru]

Serge also spent almost a year in Italy - since the May of 1880(immediately after the death of his beloved mother) till the march of 1881 (he had to return immediately due to the death of Alexander II).
He started to learn Italian because he wanted to read Dante in original version.

[hikaru]

GD Sergey Alexandrovith liked Fiorentina Painture, especially Fra Beato Angelico.
He started to collect paintures beeing in Italy.
In Fiorenza he became a friend with the Head of the Fiorentina Academia delle Arte Mr. Kiavacci, who became his consultant.
So Elizaveta Feodorovna became the admirer of the Fiorentina school and Medici period too.

[hikaru]

GD Nikolay Konstantinovitch and Fanny Lire made a romantic travel through Italy: Bologna, Venezia, Roma, Bari, Brindizi, Amalfi, Sorrento, Capri, Napoli, Fiorenza, Milan, Triest.
In Roma they spent a lot of money in the antique shops.

[hikaru]

 GD Sergey also went to Italy with Ella in October of 1892.

[gem_10]

GD Sergey also went to Italy with Ella in October of 1892.

Yes I remembered reading that somewhere. And many Italians were struck with Ella's beauty. 

[hikaru]

Olyga Alexandrovna , Peter of Oldenburg , Mikhail Alexandrovith and Dina - first freilina of Olyga Alexanrovna went to Sorrento.

[hikaru]

At March of 1914, Dmitry Pavlovitch went to Palermo to get a treatment.

[hikaru]

IN the wintertime of 1900, Gd Mikhail Mikhailovitch and GD Georgy Mikhaylovitch stayed at the "Grand Hotel" of Rome.

[hikaru]

At winter of 1903 GD Kyrill and GD Boris went with russian cruiserships to Napoli.

[Eutropius]

I remember reading that Queen Elena of Italy arranged for Pr Ioann Konstantinovich and Princess Helena of Serbia (her niece) to meet in Italy.  They had a brief courtship and became engaged.

edit: niece not grandniece