#Ludwig of Hesse

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

The Photo vs Behind the Scenes

Photo 1: Grand Duchesses Maria and Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia with Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia, pushing maternal first cousin Prince Georg Donatus of Hesse and By Rhine in a cart, Wolfsgarten 1910

Photo 2: the same people on the left along a nanny or governess, maybe Prince Heinrich of Prussia standing on the stairs, and Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia playing with Prince Ludwig of Hesse and By Rhine, Wolfsgarten 1910

[romanovsonelastdance]

Romanov relatives: Ernst-Ludwig of Hesse with his sons.

[worldoftheromanovs]

Tsar Nicholas ii, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, and her nephew Ludwig of Hesse on the beach of Novi Svet, 24th May 1912

[ykzzr]

Grand Duchess Eleonore of Hesse and by Rhine, Prince Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and his wife, Hereditary Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine and Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine at the Bayreuth Festival in 1932.

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

Candid photo of Princess Cecilie of Hesse (neé Greece and Denmark) with her two sons Princes Ludwig and Alexander of Hesse, 1937

[worldoftheromanovs]

Presumably onboard the Standart. April-May 1912

The daughters of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Hessian relatives, Grand Duchess Eleonore of Hesse and little prince Ludwig and hereditary Grand Duke George Donatus. Early 1910s.

[empress-alexandra]

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.

[adini-nikolaevna]

“I was photographed as Princess Charlotte because Grandmother thinks I look like her.”

— Princess Victoria of Hesse to her brother, Hereditary Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig, 1882.

[thepaleys]

The Funeral of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich

My uncle was buried on the morning of the twenty-third of February. My uncle’s brothers, as well as his sister-in-law, the Dowager Empress, expressed a desire to attend but found at the last moment that they could not do so. Disorders were feared; strikes were breaking out one after another in all the great industrial centers. Any gathering of royal persons would only invite new catastrophes. A cousin of my uncle, the Grand Duke Constantine, took the risk, and so did the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg, her daughter Beatrice, and the Grand Duke of Hesse and his wife. Finally, my father, in his banishment now installed in Paris, asked the Emperor’s permission to come. It was granted.

Dmitri and I went to see him at the railway station and received him with sobs, which could not lessen the joy we had at seeing him again. We took him back to the house. The meeting between him and his sister-in-law was painful.

My aunt had conceived the idea of building a chapel in the crypt of the Miracle Monastery to shelter the remains of my uncle. While waiting for the chapel to be built, she obtained permission to place the coffin in one of the convent churches.

The funeral service was celebrated with great solemnity. Officers with drawn swords and sentinels were stationed around the bier. The Archbishop and the high clergy of Moscow celebrated the mass, a service so long and tiring that I almost fainted, and my father had to take me out. The church was full of people; wreaths and flowers were heaped around the coffin and on the steps of the catafalque. By this time, I had reached such a degree of physical lassitude that I could hardly think or feel anything. We had lived for six days in a state of nervous tension that never relaxed. At the end of the service, the coffin was carried to one of the little churches of the monastery, and here, for forty days and nights, prayers were said. We attended them every evening.

Some days later, my father and other members of the family departed. Little by little, life took up its normal course. "Normal" is an expression only relatively exact, for my aunt never left off her mourning and rarely went out.

"Education of a Princess" - Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna Jr.

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana Nikolaevna playing with their little cousins Princes Georg Donatus and Ludwig of Hesse and By Rhine, also with their maternal uncle Grand Duke Ernst Louis of Hesse and By Rhine, Livadia Crimea 1912 🤍

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The family of Georg Donatus of Hesse and by Rhine.

[worldoftheromanovs]

Alexandra Feodorovna with her nephews Ludwig and Georg Donatus during a visit to Hemmelmark on 27/28 July 1909

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Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich playing with his Hessian cousins, Princes Georg Donatus and Ludwig, Germany 1910

[ykzzr]

16 November 1937

On this day 86 years ago, 6 members of the Hesse and by Rhine family were killed after their plane crashed in Belgium. The victims were the Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, Georg Donatus, his pregnant wife, the Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine, Cecilie, her fetus, his mother, Dowager Grand Duchess Eleanor, and his two sons, Princes Ludwig and Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine.

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

A sweet photo of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna with her baby nephew Prince Ludwig of Hesse, Germany 1910

[royalty-nobility]

Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (1837-1892)

Artist: Ludwig Hofmann-Zeitz (German, 1832-95)

Date: c. 1878-1892

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Royal Collection, United Kingdom

Description

Louis IV (12 September 1837 – 13 March 1892) was the Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine from 13 June 1877 until his death in 1892. Through his marriage to Queen Victoria's second daughter Alice, he was connected to the British royal family. Two of his daughters married into the House of Romanov.

He is shown in three-quarter-length. He wears the uniform of a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Hessian contingent of the Prussian army, the collar, star and ribbon of the Order of Louis, the star of the Garter and the Iron Cross. His badges include the Red Eagle, the Order 'Pour la Mérite', the Iron Cross, the Golden Lion, the Cross for Military Merit (Hesse), the Cross for Military Merit (Mecklenburg-Schwerin) and the Order of St George (Russia).