#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

[worldoftheromanovs]

OTMAA with their cousins Georg Donatus and Ludwig in Livadia. 1912

Source: Hessian State Archives

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

[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]

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.

[kootyl]

Tsar Nicholas II, Uncle Ernie and Grand Duchess Marie Romanov in a vehicle in 1910.

[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.

[royalty-nobility]

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

Artist: Ludwig Hofmann-Zeitz (German, 1832-1895

Date: c.1878-1892

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, England, 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).

[tccolour]

Alix, Elisabeth, and Ernst Louis of Hesse

[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 🤍

[worldoftheromanovs]

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

[romanovsonelastdance]

The family of Georg Donatus of Hesse and by Rhine.

[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]

Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich with his cousins Princes Georg Donatus and Ludwig of Hesse, 1912

[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.