#Empress Alexandra Feodorovna

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Ball Dress of the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna made in silk and chiffon, Germany, Frankfurt, 1894.

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Princess Alix of Hesse (Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia) dressed for costume dress ball, 1892.

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Portraits of Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna and Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Nikolaevna by Friedrich August von Kaulbach, 1903.

[adini-nikolaevna]

“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

[kootyl]

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna looking off into the distance.

[allthingsromanov]

Grand Duchess Olga in Tsarskoye Selo, 1909

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

New photos of The Romanov Family, Mogilev, Summer 1916

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

[wildfieldz]

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

[elsalouisa]

"I had not seen the Empress since we were girls, staying with Queen Victoria at Windsor or in the beautiful Isle of Wight. And what a charming girl she was! A simple English girl in appearance, in a skirt and blouse, utterly unaffected, warm-hearted, and fresh as a rosebud touched with dew. I was thinking of the happy, careless days when we were in England together, as I drove to the palace, forgetting the change that the passage of the years makes in the friends of one’s youth, and when I went into the room where the Empress was waiting to watch from the window the Blessing of the Waters, I felt startled to find, instead of the girl I used to know, a surpassingly beautiful and stately woman. The petals of the rosebud had unfolded. She was the centre of a brilliant group of Grand Duchesses and ladies, all wearing the strange but beautiful dress of the Russian Court, with long hanging sleeves. On her head was a kokoshnik, a crescent-shaped diadem, flaming with diamonds, from which fell a long white veil, and her stateliness and beauty distinguished her from all the other sumptuous figures surrounding her. A stranger who had never seen her before would have been certain that it was she, and not one of the others, who was Empress.

“How good to see you again, Eulalia, after all these years,’’ she said, coming towards me; and she put her arms round me and kissed me.

And in that greeting I realised that the Tsaritsa had not changed. She was still the affectionate and unaffected friend I had known years before. We had a hundred questions to ask each other, but almost before we had had time to begin, we had to stop talking to attend to the imposing ceremony which was beginning on the frozen Neva".

H. R. H. The Infanta Eulalia of Spain "Court life from within"

[kaiserrreich]

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/

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

♥︎ Empress Alexandra Feodorovna with Tatiana's dog, Ortipo, sat on her lap. ♥︎

[teatimeatwinterpalace]

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

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Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia when she was Princess Alix of Hesse, 1892.

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Empress Alexandra Feodorovna in one of her best court dresses, 1895. I wish I could explore every detail of her outfit, but unfortunately, I did not find much about it.

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Source: Tatiana Z on Flickr

[adini-nikolaevna]

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

[royal-confessions]

“People like to romanticize Nicholas and Alix’s mutual stupidity.” - Submitted by Anonymous

“The Last Czars made me loath Nicholas and Alexandra so much. They were stupid, incompetent, stubborn and out of touch. No, they and their kids did not deserve being massacred but they were not blameless at all.” - Submitted by Anonymous