#Empress Alexandra Feodorovna

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Princess Alix of Hesse with her father, Louis IV, 1889.

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Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia (nee Princess Charlotte of Prussia) by Hau, after Sokolov.

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New photos of The Romanov Family, Mogilev, Summer 1916

Kindly shared by Ilya aka LastRomanovs on Flickr and Sledstvie on Instagram!

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The more elevated a person is, the sooner that person should help everyone and never in fellowship remind everyone of their position. My children should be like that.

Nicholas II

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Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse with his surviving children: Princess Victoria of Battenberg, Marchioness of Milford-Haven, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, Princess Irene of Prussia, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia and Grand Duke Ernest Louis of Hesse, 1884.

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"The Empress is a tall graceful figure, her face not very handsome, but her little head beautifully set and her expression pleasing and features regular, her hands and arms beautifully shaped and an air of imperial dignity and grace I never saw before.? Her dress was perfect—simple and of dazzling whiteness, with a necklace, fringe, drops, etc. that I can only compare to dark blue glass eggs for never did I see their like". 

Russian journal of Lady Londonderry

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Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna taking a photo of herself at the Alexander Palace, 1913.

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Empress Alexandra of Russia, having her likeness modeled in clay, three years before the revolution of 1917.

Source & colorization credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/9h2q7x/empress_alexandra_of_russia_having_her_likeness/

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Empress Alexandra with her eldest daughters, Olga and Tatiana in 1898 🌸

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At the Russian Court (3/?)  I M P E R I A L  D I A D E M  

‘Regal assemblage of pearls and old diamonds. This diadem is, past question, one of the finest specimens of its kind.’  Fersman

This splendid diadem, worn by the Empress Alexandra at the opening of the Duma, was catalogued by Fersman as early 19th century, but it is more likely to have been made by the court jeweller Bolin expressly for the Tsarina, using antique pearls and diamonds from the Imperial Cabinet. Fersman considered it to be the fiest piece in the entire imperial collection. All trace if of it is lost after the inventory of 1922, and it seems likely that as with other pieces from the collection it was sold or broken up when some of the imperial jewels were sold by Christie’s in London in 1927. 

The Empress Alexandra in court dress for the opening of the first Duma in 1906, photographed by K. Bulla. She wears the diadem, a small diamond chain of the Order of St Andrew, and a collier de chien in pearls and diamonds and a pearl and diamond cluster necklace, both surely created by Bolin to accompany the diadem. Neither necklace appears among the inventoried jewels, and it is likely that they had been taken by the Empress to Tobolsk and then disappeared. | The Jewels of the Romanovs Family and Court by Stefano Papi 

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“Cornflowers were one of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna’s favorite flowers, and on her birthday they tried to decorate everything with cornflowers.”

- Baroness M. P. Fredericks

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Happy 152nd Birthday to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia (née Alix of Hesse)! June 6th 1872 🤍

"Many thanks for your dear letter and kind wishes for the birth of our baby, a nice little thing, like Ella, only smaller and with finer features, though the nose promises to be long." Princess Alice of Hesse to Queen Victoria, June 17 1872

"We think of calling our little girl "Alix" (Alice they pronounce too dreadfully in German)... I will add Vicky's name to baby's others, as you propose; and "Alix" we gave for "Alice," as they murder my name here: Allice" they pronounce it, so we thought "Alix" could not so easily be spoilt." Princess Alice of Hesse to Queen Victoria, June 17 + 24 1872

Edit made by me using Capcut

[nadziejacher]

В Оружейной палате Кремля можно посмотреть на коронационную мантию императрицы Александры Федоровны (жены Николая II), сшитую из золотой парчи, конечно же, с мехом горностая. На ней вышиты золотые и черные двуглавые орлы. Коронация Николая II проходила в Успенском соборе Московского Кремля 14(26) мая 1896 года и, кстати, стала первой в мире коронацией, запечатленной на видео.

Ну а на портрете авторства Константина Маковского - сама императрица Александра Федоровна в этой самой мантии

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Princess Alix of Hesse (later Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia) with her sister Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, 1890.

[elsalouisa]

"The opal-hued boudoir of the Empress, where we spent a great deal of our time, was a lovely, quiet place, so quiet that the footsteps of the children and the sound of their pianos in the rooms above were often quite audible. The Empress usually lay on a low couch over which' hung her favorite picture, a large painting of the Holy Virgin asleep and surrounded by angels". 

Anna Vyrubova

Painting "Holy Virgin asleep" by E.J. Poupion