#empress maria fyodorovna

[resplendentoutfit]

Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky (Russian, 1757-1825) • Portrait of Empress Maria Fyodorovna (1759-1828)

The outrageous, extravagant, sometimes humorous and often beautiful outfits worn by subjects of old portraits; captioned, as an attempt at satire.

Emphasis on beautiful painting details.

[imperial-russia]

Emperor Alexander II, his wife, sons and two daughters-in-law

[rwpohl]

https://www.rct.uk/collection/2926760/maria-feodorovna-empress-of-russia-when-tsesarevna-and-nicholas-ii-emperor-of

[elsalouisa]

"[He] chose to read... the chapter in The Brothers Karamazov where Father Zossima receives the poor peasant women who have come on pilgrimage. . . . It was his own sorrow which Dostoevsky painted in this chapter. He too could not forget his little Alyosha. ... The Crown Princess Maria Fyodorovna, the future Empress of Russia, was present at one of these evenings. She too had lost a little son and could not forget it. As she listened to my father’s reading, the Crown Princess cried bitterly. When the reading was over, she turned to the ladies who had organized the evening and told them she would like to have a word with my father. The ladies hastened to carry out her wish, but evidently they were not too bright. Knowing Dostoevsky’s rather suspicious disposition, they feared he might refuse to obey the Crown Princess’ command, and decided to oblige him to do it through a stratagem. They approached my father and, with mysterious  expressions on their faces, said that “‘a certain very, very interesting personality” would like to have a talk with him about the reading he had given.

“What interesting personality?” Dostoevsky asked, surprised.

“You will see for yourself! She is extremely interesting. . .. Please come with us right away!” the young women answered, taking possession of my father. Laughing, they pushed him into a little boudoir and closed the door behind him.

Dostoevsky was astonished by this mysterious behavior. The little room where he was standing was dimly lit by a shaded lamp; a young woman was seated modestly at a small table. At that period of his life, my father no longer looked at young women. He bowed to the stranger as one bows to a lady one meets in a friend’s drawing room; and, since he assumed that the two young pranksters were playing a joke on him, he simply left the room by the opposite door.

Dostoevsky doubtless knew that the Crown Princess had attended the evening, but either thought she had already left or, perhaps, had already forgotten her presence, due to his habitual absentmindedness. He returned to the main drawing room, was immediately surrounded, became involved in an interesting discussion and completely forgot about the “joke.”

A quarter of an hour later, the young women who had led him into the little boudoir rushed up to him.

“What did she say to you? What did she say to you?” they asked eagerly.

“Who?” asked my father in amazement.

“Who? The Crown Princess, of course!”

“The Crown Princess? But where is she? I never saw her!"

Aimée Dostoevsky (Dostoevskaia, L. F. (Liubov Fedorovna) "Fyodor Dostoevsky: A Study"

[thepaleys]

The Grand Duke Serge and his wife Elisabeth (Ella) Fyodorovna, a sister of Empress Alexandra, went to Italy to talk to Paul, inform him of the tsar's decisions, and discuss the future of Maria and Dimitry. Their meeting in Rome was bitter, brief, and of course, useless. The question that still remained open was whether the marriage could be recognized as legal or not. On ecclesiastical grounds, there was no doubt of the marriage's legality since Olga's divorce had been approved by the Orthodox Church and Paul was a widower. But before Russian law, things could be quite different since the statutes of the imperial family clearly stated that morganatic marriages were forbidden and that no marriage contracted without the permission of the tsar would be considered real.

Legally married or not, Paul and Olga were forbidden to return to Russia, and they settled in Paris, where their son Vladimir spent what were probably the happiest years of his short life. (...) Vladimir Paley loved that house very much and in his last years remembered it with deep nostalgia and affection in several poems, such as Hyacinths and Lilac Flowers. During Paul and Olga's exile, their residence became an "annex" of the Russian imperial embassy in Paris. They offered dinners and receptions in grand style; but they didn't live merely to entertain aristocrats, diplomats and holidaying Russians. The former Madame von Pistolkors (nobody was sure what she should be called now) was an avid reader and had a remarkable inclination towards arts and literature. Paul, even if he was far from being the intellectual type, shared some of his wife's interests, and soon their salon became a meeting point for many writers, painters, musicians and artists. (...)

During the summer of 1903, Paul, Olga and Vladimir went to Schlangenbad, Bavaria, to spend a vacation with the three von Pistolkors children and their grandmother Madame Karnovich. For the grand duke's wife, the occasion must have been deeply remarkable since she hadn't been able to see Alexander, Olga and Marianna for almost a year. That same summer, Paul also had the chance to enjoy a short and moving meeting with Maria and Dimitry in Tegernsee, Bavaria, in the villa of his sister Maria Alexandrovna, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He also saw his brother Serge, who came from Russia with the children, but their conversation ended in a harsh argument.

"A Poet Among the Romanovs" - Jorge F. Sáenz

[steliosagapitos]

~ "Ceremonial court dress belonging to Empress Maria Fyodorovna. Made by Atelier Izambard Chanceau / embroidery by A. Laman’s workshop. St. Petersburg, 1880s." ~

[joao-gomes-blog]

The Rock Crystal Egg or Revolving Miniatures Egg is an Imperial Fabergé egg, one in a series of fifty-two jeweled eggs made under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé for the Russian Imperial family. It was created in 1896 for Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna. The egg currently resides in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.The egg was created by Faberge's workmaster, Mikhail Evlampievich Perkhin (Russian, 1860–1903) with miniatures by Johannes Zehngraf (Danish, 1857–1908)[2] It stands about 248 mm (9 3/4 in) tall on its stand, with a diameter of 98 mm (3 7/8 in.)[3] The outer shell is rock crystal banded with emerald-green enameled gold studded with diamonds. On the apex of the egg is a 27-carat (5.4 g) Siberian emerald supported by an emerald-green enameled gold mount. This cabochon-style emerald is one of the largest gemstones Fabergé used in any of the Imperial eggs.[4] The egg's base sits on a plinth of rock crystal. The base consists of a colorfully enameled gold double spheroid which is circled twice with rose-cut diamonds. It has the monograms of the Tsarina, as the Princess Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt before her marriage, and later as Alexandra Fedorovna, Empress of Russia. Each monogram is surmounted with a diamond crown of the respective royal house.[4] These monograms form a continuous pattern around the base of the egg.Inside the rock crystal egg is a gold support holding twelve miniature paintings. The paintings are of the various palaces and residences that were significant to the Empress. Each location holds a special memory for Nicholas and Alexandra in the early days of their courtship, as they had just been married two years prior, in 1894.

When the large cabochon emerald on the apex is depressed it engages a mechanism that rotates the miniatures inside the egg. A hook moves down and folds the framed pictures back, like the pages of a book, so two paintings can be fully seen at one time.[1] Each miniature is framed in gold with an emerald on the apex. The frames are attached to a central fluted gold shaft which passes vertically through the egg.[4]

The locations include:

The Neues Palais, Darmstadt, Germany: Palace where the Empress was born.

Kranichstein, Hesse: A favorite summer residence of the Empress' youth.

Balmoral Castle, Scotland: Childhood holiday destination of Alexandra's grandmother, Queen Victoria.

Old Grand Ducal Palace (Altes Palais), Darmstadt: Official seat of Alexandra's father, Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.

Wolfsgarten, Hesse: Hunting lodge Alexandra's family visited as a child.

Windsor Castle, near London, England: A residence of Queen Victoria where Alexandra visited as a child.

Palace Church, Coburg: Site where Alexandra first consented to marry Nicholas.

Schloss Rosenau, Coburg: A site Nicholas and Alexandra visited the day after their engagement.

Osborne House, Isle of Wight: Site of Nicholas' visit to see Alexandra while they were engaged.

The Winter Palace, St. Petersburg: The site of Nicholas and Alexandra's wedding.

Anichkov Palace, St. Petersburg: Residence of Maria Feodorovna, where Alexandra spent her first year in Russia.

The Alexander Palace, Tsarskoe Selo, near St. Petersburg: the Imperial family's favorite winter residence.The egg was presented by Nicholas II to Alexandra Fedorovna on March 24, 1896. She received it at Eastertide in the same year that the young couple had suddenly ascended the throne.[1]

In 1909 the egg was housed in the Empress' study in the Winter Palace. The egg was seized by the Kerensky Provisional Government and moved to the Armory Palace of the Kremlin in Moscow along with approximately 40 other eggs. In 1930, the Rock Crystal Egg was one of the ten Eggs sold by the Antikvariat (Trade Department) to the Hammer Galleries in New York for 8000 rubles, or approximately $4000 U.S. In 1945 the egg became the last of five Imperial Easter Eggs bought by Lillian Thomas Pratt, the wife of a General Motors executive John Lee Pratt. Upon Lillian Thomas Pratt's death in 1947, the egg was willed to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia. It remains on view as part of the Virginia Museum of Fine Art's European Decorative Art collection

[loiladadiani]

The Russian Royalties at a picnic (or resting after a review of troops) - Notice on top photo, the Empress apparently in a playful mood.

In the photographs, left to right, Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna and her brother-in-law, Grand Duke George Mikhalovich; next, Grand Duchess Maria Georgevna, Tsar Nicholas II, Empress Maria Fyodorovna, the playful young man (whom I do not recognize), Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna and two individuals I cannot identify.

[heavyarethecrowns]

Empress Maria Fyodorovna with her sister Princess Alexandra of Wales and niece Princess Maria Georgievna of Greece

[gogmstuff]

1908-1910 Dress of Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorovna (Hermitage). From pinterest.com/sheshemoze/1900s/1908/ 830X2440.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Empress Maria Feodorovna and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, 1891

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Maria Feodorovna (Mariya Fyodorovna; 26 November 1847 – 13 October 1928), known before her marriage as Princess Dagmar of Denmark, was Empress of Russia from 1881 to 1894 as the wife of Emperor Alexander III.

She was the second daughter of Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel.

Maria's eldest son became the last Russian monarch, Emperor Nicholas II.

Maria lived for 10 years after Bolshevik functionaries murdered Nicholas and his immediate family in 1918.

Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (6 April [O.S. 25 March] 1875 – 20 April 1960) was the elder daughter and fourth child of Tsar Alexander III of Russia and Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia (née Princess Dagmar of Denmark) and the sister of Emperor Nicholas II.

[krasivaa]

Hey! Do you perhaps know what the relations between Alexandra Fyodorovna and Nikolai's parents were like?

That is a very good, but at the same time a complex question. We probably all know that in the beginning, Niki and Alix's marriage, as an idea, did not really meet with approval. Maria and Alexander were anti-Germans. On the other hand, Alexandra's grandmother, Queen Victoria, did not trust the Russians. However, it soon became clear that Nikolai would not take a single girl until Alix. He even said that he would rather become a monk. Before his death, Nicky's father, Alexander III, gave his blessing. Shortly after the royal wedding, gossip about the empress began to rage. Some claim that Maria Feodorovna also participated in it, while others dispute this. What we know for sure is that Maria was polite and even kind in the presence of her sister-in-law. She was also in labor. Considering the kind of person Maria Feodorovna Romanova was, no amount of gossip or lies could influence her opinion of Alicky.

If you have anything to add, I can`t wait to hear your thoughts.



[imperial-russia]

Emperor Nicholas II with his mother the Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorovna and his uncle Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich, late 1890s.

[rwpohl]

[evolutiontopeacefulmystic]

Saint Florence Li-Tim Oi Collect (Rite 2) Prayer

Almighty God, who pours out your Spirit upon your sons and daughters: Grant that we, following the example of your servant Florence Li Tim-Oi, chosen priest in your church, may with faithfulness, patience, and tenacity proclaim your holy gospel to all the nations, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen. + Lord Yeshua the Messiah, Pre-Eternal Bishop, Patriarch & Son of the Living Allah, through the most powerful prayers of thy most Holy Mother the Theotokos and Saints Florence Li Tim-Oi, Olga Michael of Alaska, Walatta Petros of Ethiopia, Maria Skobtsova the New Martyr of Paris, Josephine Bakhita, Coretta Scott King, Bayard Rustin, Marsha P. Johnson, André Bessette of Montreal, Rachel Held Evans, Mary Magdalene the Apostle, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna the New Martyr of Russia, Isaac Thomas Hecker, Alexis Toth of Wilkes-Barre, Aelia Pulcheria the Empress, Moses the Ethiopian, Gorazd Pavlik of Prague, Alexander Schmorell of Munich, Dorothy Day, Óscar Romero, Joan of Arc, Ioan Iacob Hozevitul, George Karslidis the Righteous of Drama, Iakovos Koukouzis of America, Alexander Schmemann, Kallistos Ware, Raphael Hawaweeny of Brooklyn, Leonty Turkevich of New York, and Archangel Michael, have mercy on us sinners. Amen.

Dios todopoderoso, que derramas tu Espíritu sobre tus hijos e hijas: concédenos que, siguiendo el ejemplo de tu sierva Florencia Li Tim-Oi, presbítera elegida en tu Iglesia, podamos, con gran fidelidad, paciencia y tenacidad proclamar tu santo Evangelio a todas las naciones; por Jesucristo nuestro Señor, que vive y reina contigo y el Espíritu Santo, un solo Dios, en la gloria eterna. Amén. + प्रभु यीशु मसीह, परमेश्वर के सन्तान, हम पर दया कर! ¡Santa Florencia Li Tim-Oi y Santa Maria Skobtsova, ruega por nosotros siempre! +

[fripperiesandfobs]

Bodice of the coronation dress of Empress Maria Fyodorovna, 1796

From Moscow Kremlin Museums