#Empress Maria

[empress-alexandra]

Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia with her sister Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, during Russian state visit in 1873.

[7pleiades7]

Portrait of Empress Maria Alexandrovna (1857),(detail), by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German, 1805–1873), oil on canvas, 120 × 95 cm, The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

[adini-nikolaevna]

“I took off my slippers and my silver embroidered robe and felt the body of my beloved next to mine… How I felt then, I do not wish to describe here.”

- from the diary of the future Emperor Alexander III of Russia, following his wedding night.

[escapismsworld]

Court dress of Empress Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg), 1820s. State Hermitage Museum.

[archduchessofnowhere]

Folks I just came across the most incredible Habsburg lithography I've ever seen:

It doesn't look that odd at first glance but the more you look at each person the more ????? the picture becomes.

Like first I saw Emperor Franz holding hands with Empress Caroline, ok that's kind of cute! But then I noticed the then Crown Princess Maria Anna crying and praying?? What's going on.

And then I realized Crown Prince Ferdinand is fucking dying in the background???

I don't know who these guys are meant to be but the ones at the right are looking straight at the camera like if they were in The Office.

But this isn't the most ??? things of this picture. Because then I noticed the angel apparently ready to guide Ferdinad to the other world and I need you to tell me if I'm insane or if you see it too.

Guys. Guys. Is the half naked angel... Reichstadt????????

Or is it just a random twink angel???????? Please tell me what you think this will drive me insane jgkgk.

EDIT because I noticed the angel has a dagger so maybe he's actually protecting Ferdinand from death (and if he is meant to be Franz then it's sweet that he's depicted as an angel who protects his family from the other side not that they deserve it much lol)

Anyway I looked it up and apparently Ferdinand almost died in December of 1832, so this lithography of 1833 is depicting that, in a very normal, not bizarre at all way.

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

New photos of The Romanov Family, Mogilev, Summer 1916

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

[allthingsromanov]

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

[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

[leifgrandeduchesse]

Sisters Alexandra & Dagmar.

"Certainly in her late teen years Alix exuded a happy spirit and tranquil personality. Minnie, three years younger, on the other hand, was already the epitome of high-spirited fun and full of mischief. She would sew the pockets of her brothers' trousers closed so when they would reach to put a small treasure inside, they could not. Minnie would also spend time making special dishes for them, knowing that she had heavily laced her concoctions with salt. She once found a mouse in her bedroom just before going to bed and quickly placed it inside Alix's pillow, waiting in the dark for her sister to scream when the rodent began to move." "Of the two sisters, Minnie was the more adventurous. Alix was always timid outside the home. It was Minnie who proposed the two should dress alike - at least in the same colours and patterns. Alix always aimed to please and readily agreed to Minnie's impulsive ideas. Alix secretly admired Minnie for her sense of fun and her willingness to try new things."

Excerpts from Alix & Minnie: A Royal Trilogy by James-Charles Noonan

[elsalouisa]

"...we found...Maria Feodorovna, the kindest and the most charming. When this princess became czarina, she had my father make a magnificent manteau de cour for her of pink velvet entirely embroidered with silver. This splendid mantle became one of the mainstays of her official wardrobe, and she wore it upon more than one great occasion. When her son Nicholas became czar, she had the pattern of its silver embroidery restitched at a convent on a purple velvet more in keeping with her age and title of Queen Mother. The model for this and all other manteaux de cour worn at the Russian court was the one approved by the Master of Robes. The only deviation allowed was the length of the train, and even this was limited by the position at court of the wearer. For instance, if the train worn by the czarina was four meters long, those of the grand duchesses had to be three meters and seventy-five centimeters, those of the princesses three meters and fifty centimeters, and so on".

Jean-Philippe Worth "A century of fashion"

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

Happy 177th birthday to Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia, née Princess Dagmar of Denmark! 🤍

November 26th, 1847.

[empress-alexandra]

Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia (Princess Dagmar of Denmark), mother of the last Russian Tsar, early 1880s.

[tercessketchfield]

MEN THINK ABOUT ROMAN EMPIRE. WOMEN THINK ABOUT HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE

JUDITH OF BAVARIA (797-843) — Daughter of Count Welf I of Bavaria, Judith was a Carolingian Empress as the second wife of Louis I the Pious. Mother of Gisela and Charles the Bald, she foght for both her own influence at court and for the succession of her son over the claims of his elder half-brothers, the sons of Louis I from his first marriage. Charles became the Emperor in 875, after the death of Louis II, his nephew and a son of his half-brother Lothair / fancast: Annabel Scholey

MARIA OF AUSTRIA (1528-1603) — Daughter of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Isabella of Portugal. She served as Regent of Spain both jointly with her husband, Maximilian (before their accession to the imperial throne), and in person, for her father, and brother, Philip II. Her children include two Holy Roman Emperors, Rudolf II and Matthias, over whom she held great influence, and queens consorts of Spain, and France / fancast: Olivia Cooke

EMPRESS MAUD (1102-1167) — Daughter of Henry I of England and Matilda of Scotland. Her first marriage to the Holy Roman Emperor, Henry V, gave her the title under which she came down into history, and was a source of great pride to Maud. Rightful heiress of Henry I, she confronted her cousin, King Stephen, in the civil war, known as the Anarchy, fighting ferociously for her rights. She failed in this for herself but won for her son Henry, who became king and established the Plantagenet dynasty in England / cast: Alison Pill in The Pillars of the Earth (2010)

MARIA THERESA (1717-1780) — She succeded her father Charles VI as the ruler of Habsburg monarchy in 1740, and devoutedly defended it against its enemies in the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Year's War. Wife of the Holy Roman Emperor, Francis I, she was a forceful personality and a competent ruler herself, reigning first in her own right, and later, jointly with her son Empreror Joseph II. Her children include two Holy Romam Emperors (Joseph II and Leopold II), queens consorts of Naples ans Sicily, and France / cast: Marie-Luise Stockinger in Maria Theresia (2017)

[adini-nikolaevna]

“In the morning at 11 o’clock we went with Papa and Mama to St. Petersburg and attended a memorial service in the fortress for dear An-Papa and An-Mama. I approached the grave of our little angel Alexander, which was… beautifully decorated with flowers. I prayed and thought a lot about you, my darling Minnie, and I was so sad to be alone at that moment… Mama noticed this and came up to me to hug me, and it touched me very much, because she is the only one who understands and does not forget our terrible grief. Others forget and constantly ask why I don’t go to the theater, why I don’t want to attend balls at Peterhof, and it’s very difficult and unpleasant for me to answer everyone. I felt so sad when I prayed at the sweet grave of the little angel; Why is he not with us and why did the Lord take him from us?”

- the future Emperor Alexander III of Russia in a letter to his wife, Maria Feodorovna, on his grief at the death of their infant son, Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich.

[angie-massei]

I think I’ll make more of them. These were all in my diploma about women in history.

1. Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien

2. Livia Drusilla/Iulia Augusta

3. Empress Theodora

4. Queen Tiye

5. Regelinda

(I’ll probably make a post about every one of them but yeah)

[archduchessofnowhere]

Katharina Schratt as Empress Maria Theresia in the play "Maria Theresia" by Franz von Schönthan, Atelier Adéle, 1903.

Via ÖNB