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“Whenever I see the Empress among the public, I have the impression that she is immeasurably far away in soul, that she has nothing in common with this motley secular crowd that gathers around her. Her sisters-in-law, Grand Duchesses Maria Nikolaevna, Olga Nikolaevna and Alexandra Iosifovna, make a completely different impression. They shine with beauty, their facial features are more regular than those of the Empress, their posture is perhaps more regal, but the Empress has much more charm, a charm that comes from the soul and is difficult to define, but making one’s innermost soul-strings sound.”
- Anna Tyutcheva on Empress Maria Alexandrovna of Russia.
#anna tyutcheva#empress maria alexandrovna#grand duchess maria nikolaevna the elder#grand duchess olga nikolaevna the elder#grand duchess alexandra iosifovna#romanov#russia#quotes
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Empress Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, ~ Wife of Tsar Alexander II ~ Grandmother of Tsar Nicholas II ~
“Marie won the hearts of all those Russians who could get to know her. Sasha [Tsar Alexander Il] became more attached to her every day, feeling that his choice fell on God-given. Their mutual trust grew as they recognized each other. Papa [Tsar Nicholas I] always began his letters to her with the words: "Blessed be Thy Name, Mary." Dad joyfully watched the manifestation of the strength of this young character and admired Marie's self-control. This, in his opinion, balanced the lack of Sasha's lack of energy from which he constantly worried about.” - Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna (the elder)
"I thought her very ladylike, kind and amiable. We were at ease at once, but she has a sad expression and looks so delicate. I think we should get on very well together, poor thing. I pity her much." - Queen Victoria
“The first time I set eyes on the Grand Duchess, she was already twenty-eight years old, but still looked very young. She retained that youthful appearance all her life; when she was forty, she could have been taken for a woman of thirty. Although she was tall and slender, the Empress was so thin and fragile that at first glance she gave no impression of a 'belle dame'. However, she was unusually elegant, with that special kind of grace only found in old German paintings…Although her facial features were regular, her beauty lay in the delicate color of her skin and her large blue eyes, which looked at you with both perception and timidity... She seemed almost out of place and uneasy in her role as mother, wife, and empress. She was tenderly attached to her family and conscientiously fulfilled the duties which her exalted rank demanded. Her mind was like her soul: refined, subtle, penetrating and extremely ironic, but lacking in breadth and initiative.” - Anna Tyutcheva, maid of honor to Maria Alexandrovna
#maria alexandrovna#empress maria alexandrovna#russian imperial family#russian history#personality post#Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna#imperial russia#tsar Alexander II#quotes#queen Victoria#olga nikolaevna#grand duchess Olga nikolaevna (the elder)#Anna tyutcheva#romanov#Romanovs#Maria Alexandrovna quotes#Russia#1800s
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"Of Grandmamma Empress my recollections are still more vague. On a journey somewhere we were brought to her in the train. She was lying on a very low bed that was all draped in sky blue. I have the hazy vision of a pale emaciated woman with a thin, waxen face and long, white, beautiful hands. I remember we had been taken away from our tea which did not please us very much, and we stared “non-understandingly” at the very sad-looking woman in her blue-curtained bed. I think that she was being transported somewhere to the South of France. She had already been an invalid for several years, and, as I have heard since, had more reasons than ill-health for being sad. That is my only recollection of Grandmamma Empress, Mamma’s Mamma".
Marie, queen of Romania "The story of my life"
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Emperor Alexander II, his wife, sons and two daughters-in-law
#Russia#romanov#Alexander II.#Empress Maria Alexandrovna#Alexander III.#Maria Fyodorovna#Vladimir Alexandrovich#Maria Pavlovna the Elder#Alexei Alexandrovich#Sergei Alexandrovich#Pavel Alexandrovich
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“I find paranormal cases involving royalty interesting. One of the most fascinating relates the sighting of the ghost of Empress Maria Alexandrovna of Russia in the Winter Palace.” - Text & Image Submitted by cenacevedo15
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1857 Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Portrait of Empress Maria Alexandrovna wife of Tsar Alexander II (Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (Marie of Hesse)), detail.
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
#1857#painting#portrait#franz xaver winterhalter#empress maria alexandrovna#detail#my edits#marie of hesse#maria alexandrovna of russia#tsar alexander ii#dress detail#pearls#beautiful dress#winterhalter#court dress#gala dress#gala gown#court gown#Magnificent pearls#melancholy
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~ ROYALS AND THEIR SIGNATURES ~
Part 3/3
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Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark(Princess Alice of Battenberg)
Crown Princess Thyra of Hanover(Princess Thyra of Denmark)
Princess Diana, Princess of Wales
Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia
Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna
Empress Elisabeth(Sissi) of Austria
Empress Maria Feodorovna(Dagmar of Denmark)
Tsar Alexander III
Princess Helen, Duchess of Albany(Princess Helen of Waldeck and Pyrmont)
Empress Maria Alexandrovna
#princess alice of battenberg#princess alice of greece and denmark#princess thyra of denmark#crown princess thyra of hanover#princess diana#lady diana#princess viktoria luise of prussia#duchess of brunswick#grand duchess elena vladimirovna#empress elisabeth of austria#empress sissi#empress maria feodorovna#dagmar of denmark#tsar alexander iii#sasha#princess helen duchess of albany#princess helen of waldeck and pyrmont#empress maria alexandrovna#signatures
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The focus of the photograph for me is the Empress María Alexandrovna. I am always looking for pictures of her, as she is described as beautiful when young. I can see indications of that in pictures such as this one, but I am also beginning to understand why it might have been that many mistook her shyness for coldness and aloofness.
On the photograph from left to right: Julie, Princess of Battenberg; Elizabeth of Prussia, Princess and Prince Carl of Hesse, Prince Wilhelmina of Hesse, Empress Marie Alexandrovna, Prince Louis of Hesse; Prince Gustav Vasa from Sweden; Princess Alice of Hesse and Prince Alexander of Hesse
#romanov family#romanov dynasty#vintage photography#Empress Maria Alexandrovna#Julie Princess of Battenberg#Elizabeth of Prussia#Princess Carl of Hesse#Prince Carl of Hesse#Prince Louis of Hesse#Prince Carl Vasa of Sweden#Princess Alice of Hesse#Prince Alexander of Hesse
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Tsar Alexander II with his family 1860s
Tsar Alexander II with his wife Empress Maria Alexandrovna and their three youngest children Maria, Sergei, Paul.
#Alexander ii#empress maria Alexandrovna#Maria Alexandrovna#sergei alexandrovich#paul alexandrovich#duchess of edinburgh#tsar Alexander ii#romanovs#1860s#russian empire
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"In the morning at 11 o’clock, we went with Papa and Mama to Petersburg and were at a memorial service in the fortress... I approached the grave of our angel, little Alexander, which was completely ready and graciously decorated with flowers. I prayed and thought a lot about you, my dear Minnie, and I was so sad to be alone at that moment, only Mom noticed this and came up to me to hug me, and it touched me very much, because she alone understands and does not forget our terrible grief. Others forget and constantly ask why I don't go to the theatre, why I don't want to go to the balls that will be in Peterhof, and it is very difficult and unpleasant for me to answer everyone. It made me 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?
Forgive me that I again remind you of our bitter loss, but I think so often about our angel Alexander, about you and the elder Baby (Nicholas II), about all of you, close to my heart and the joy of my life, and especially now when I am alone and miss you. This definitely consoles me, and my thoughts are often with you, my darlings."
Letter from Tsarevich Alexander Alexandrovich to Tsarevna Maria Feodorovna (June 4, 1870)
In memory of Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russia (1869 - 1870)
#alexander iii#maria feodorovna#czar alexander iii#tsar alexander iii#empress maria feodorovna#empress maria alexandrovna#maria alexandrovna#the romanovs#historical couples#history#tsar nicholas ii#otma#otmaa#royalty#royals#imperial russia#russia#baby#precious#love#longing#relationship#love quotes#19th century
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“You know what he meant to my maternal heart and how close our relationship was, which, perhaps I will never have with any of my other sons, although all of them, and especially Sasha, touched me deeply in this sorrowful time.”
- letter from Empress Maria Alexandrovna of Russia on the death of her eldest and most beloved son, Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandrovich.
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"She was then a little past her seventeenth birthday; she had only just left the young ladies’ institute, from which her mother had withdrawn her after some unpleasantness with the headmistress. The unpleasantness arose over the circumstance that at the public graduation celebration Irena was to have addressed the patron with some verses of welcome in French, but immediately before the function she was set aside in favor of another girl, the daughter of a very rich liquor licensee. The Princess could not stomach this affront, and even Irena did not forgive the headmistress her injustice; she had been dreaming of how, with all eyes on her, the center of attraction, she would rise and say her verses, and how Moscow would talk about her afterward.... And she was right, Moscow would certainly have talked about Irena. She was a tall and graceful girl, with virgin breasts and angular shoulders, a pale, velvety complexion unusual for her age and as clear and smooth as porcelain, and thick, fair hair with very distinctive mingled darker and lighter strands. Her features were exquisitely, almost artificially regular and had not entirely lost the artless expression of early youth. But the deliberate movements of her beautiful neck, and her smile, a rather abstracted or rather weary smile, suggested that she was a highly strung young lady; and the very outlines of her fine, faintly smiling lips and her small, aquiline, rather firm nose expressed a self-willed and passionate quality —a quality dangerous both for others and for herself. Astonishing, truly astonishing were her eyes, which were a very dark gray shot with green, with a languishing look, and unsually long, like those of Egyptian goddesses, with radiating lashes and boldly sweeping brows. There was a strange expression in those eyes: they seemed to be attentively and thoughtfully looking out from an infinite depth and distance. At the institute Irena had had the reputation of being one of its most intelligent and capable pupils, but also of possessing an uncertain, ambitious character and a mischievous head. One class mistress prophesied of her that her passions would ruin her — “vos passions vous perdront” — whereas another class mistress chided her for her coldness and insensibility and called her “ane jeune fille sans ceeur.” Her friends found her proud and secretive, her brothers and sisters were afraid of her, her mother did not trust her, and her father felt awkward when she fixed her mysterious eyes on him, but in both father and mother she inspired a feeling of involuntary respect, not because of her qualities, but because of the peculiar, vague expectations that she aroused in them, for no obvious reason".
Ivan Turgenev "Smoke".
The prototype of Irena Ratmirov (princess Osinin) was Alexandra Sergeevna Dolgorukova, maid of honour to the court of Grand Duchess (later Empress) Maria Alexandrovna since 1853 to 1862. Mistress of Tsarevich Alexander Nikolaevich (later Emperor Alexander II).
#novels#alexander ii#empress maria alexandrovna#house of dolgorukov#maid of honor#romanov#aristocracy
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A statue of Empress Maria Alexandrovna, consort of Emperor Alexander II.
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“18th century Royal names were so confusing, Tsar Alexander Ii of Russia had a wife named Maria , a daughter named Maria and a daughter-in-law named Maria” - Submitted by queenempath007
#Empress Maria Alexandrovna#Empress Maria Feodorovna#Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna#queenempath007
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Aww🥺❤
Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia with her adorable baby grandson, Prince Alfred of Edinburgh, 1875.
I would like to find a photo of the Empress with her other grandchildren.
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