Princess Zenaida Yusupova - discussion and pictures

[berno]

Thanks Svetabel for your wonderful pics. Do you now the other sitters in this picture?

[ashanti01]

Thanks Svetabel for posting that picture. Hope you continue to post these rare pic's

[brnbg aka: liljones1968]

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some of you may already have this, but for those that don't....


click on image for larger version


Zenaida at her desk in the Moika palace




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[Svetabel]

Thanks Svetabel for your wonderful pics. Do you now the other sitters in this picture?

I only know that the old lady in black (sitting second from right) is Countess Ekaterina Tizengausen, who supposedly was a lover of King Friedrich Wilhelm III and a mother of Felix Elston (1828-76), father of Felix-senior, husband of Zenaida.

[ashanti01]

Found this picture of Princess Zenaida and her husband Felix on a site. It's from the 1903 ball, but I had never seen this image before.



In attempting to make it a little bigger, I also made it not as good : (

Here's the link to where I found it. Maybe someone knows how to expand it without hurting it's quality.
http://www.asm.rusk.ru/07/asm2/asm2_5.htm

[brnbg aka: liljones1968]

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y'know, if i haven't mentioned it before, i have to say:  ashanti01, you are an absolutely amazing foto-archaeologist!!   
or, if you prefer, image-detective / image-archaeologist.    either way, you're amazing :-)



personally, i think the better title is image-archaeologist.    detectives, generally, follow a string of clues from a starting point provided by others.     archaeologists follow strings of clues as well, but rely heavily on intuition & hunches (based on experience) to find a place to start looking.


whatever the case may be, you are, without a doubt, a treasure-hunter with "the golden touch"!


as ever, thank you very, very much!

[ashanti01]

Dude, you made me blush!!!!

But thank you, for the wonderful compliment. I'm just like other's who are captivated the Yussupov's and their world. I must say that you have posted several rare pictures yourself as well as Svetabel and Taksa. 

[ashanti01]

[NAOTMAA Fan]

A larger version of Zinaida Yussopova that Ortino posted:



She has this almost ethereal beauty to her, very much in her eyes.

[Vassili_Vorontsoff]

This is highly probable that someone posted it beofre, but I have a try...princess Youssoupova on the front of her datcha in Tarskoye Selo...



Vassia

[ashanti01]

Very nice! You have a date for it? It hasn't been posted before in this thread but there is another picture I believe was taken at that time with Zenaida and Felix.

[ashanti01]

I think this has to be my favorite portrait of Zenaida. Where did you find it Brian? I mean the large version, cause I've only seen a small version of it.

[ashanti01]

Isn't there a copy or smaller copy of this painting hanging in Zenaida's bedroom in the Moika palace today?

[Vassili_Vorontsoff]

I have nothing more on this photo...sorry to disappoint you ashanti01

Vassia

[Svetabel]

One of my favourite of Zenaida