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Tsarina Alexandra posing in Tsar Nicholas II's uniform, 1896

The young Tsarina posing in her husband's Preobrazhensky uniform, with a cigarette.

The Tsar was coronated in May 1896 wearing the uniform of the Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment (slide 6), of which Nicholas II was a colonel, founded in 1690 by Tsar Peter (Pyotr) I. The uniform, alongside the coronation dress worn by Alexandra, have survived and have been beautifully preserved.

The photographs are from Tsar Nicholas’s 1896 diary preserved by GARF, and shared by George Hawkins in ‘Alexandra Feodorovna: Diaries and Correspondence: Volume III The Young Empress 1895 - 1905’

An illustration of Nicholas II wearing the Preobrazhensky uniform, published in the French publication Le monde illustré in 1901

Sources

📍📷 'A series of photos of Alexandra dressed in Nicholas's Preobrazhensky uniform, from Nicholas's 1896 diary. GARF 601-1-236' in Alexandra Feodorovna: Diaries and Correspondence: Volume III The Young Empress 1895 - 1905, translated by George Hawkins, (Independently published, 2024), pp. 37-38 — please credit this if you share on social media

📷 V. von Mengden, 'The Coronation Procession of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia' (14 May 1896), platinum print, 18.0 x 23.0 cm, © Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2025 | Royal Collection Trust

📷 Wikipedia / Shakko (Sofia Bagdasarova), 'Nicholas II's coronation uniform', (2013), Wikipedia Commons

📷 Anonymous, 'Illustration of Nicholas II', (1901), from Le monde illustré

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Last words of The Romanovs

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New photos of NAOTMAA, Last Imperial Family of Russia

shared by Ilya (aka LastRomanovs and Sledstvie): Part 1

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* = pretty sure

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Portraits of Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna and Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Nikolaevna by Friedrich August von Kaulbach, 1903.

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Nicholas II with his wife Alexandra and two eldest daughters.

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Nicholas, Alix and little Tatiana in Poland.

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Emperor Nicholas II of Russia with his wife Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, onboard Imperial Yacht Standart during King Edward VII and his family’s visit in 1908.

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Ludwig IV and Tatiana Nikolaevna: Grandfather and Granddaughter. They never met, as he passed before she was born. She resembles him a lot in my opinion 🤍

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TIM Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra onboard with their children TIH Knazhna Olga, Knazhna Tatiana, Knazhna Maria, Grand Knazhna Anastasia, and Tsesarevich Alexei.

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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

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

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Alexandra Feodorovna's christmas prayer

Alix's handwrited prayer in 1917 at Tobolsk to her childrens tutor.

I pray that Christ the Xmax King may stoop to bless, and guide you day to day holiness, Your friend in joy, Your comfort in distress, I pray that every cloud may lead you to the light, and He may raise you up from height to height, Himsef the Day-Star of your darkest night; I pray that the Christ before whose Crib you bend the knee, may fill your longing soul abundantly, with grace to follow him möre perfectly. 1917 Tobolsk - Alexandra

Nicky, Alix and Ella

Alexandra's icon and Alexandra with her oldest daughter Olga.

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Famous Books OTMA Read (or at least owned)

The Wide Wide World by Elizabeth Wetherell. Olga wrote in pencil in Russian on the endpaper, “Olga from Grandmother, for Xmas, 1908.”

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Written on the half-title page, “Tatiana Nicolaivna, from her loving Nana, M. Edgar.”

La Fontaine’s Fables, with pictures by C. M. Park and Rene Bull. On the flyleaf of the first volume, “To dear Tatiana, Xmas, 1904, from Aunty Irene.”

The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge. Written in pencil, “For darling Tatiana fr. Papa & Mama G. C. Jan. 12, 1910.”

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Written in pencil on the flyleaf, “To Marie Nicholaievna, with fond love from her old Nana, M. Edgar.”

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. With an inscription by Maria.

Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput and Brobdingnag. Adapted by John Lang for children. “For Darling Marie from her loving Aunt Irene, for Xmas, 1908.”

The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley. “For Darling Anastasie from her loving Aunt and Godmama Irene, for Xmas, 1908.”

Source: Important Collection of Manuscripts, First Editions, and Illustrated Books of the XVIII and XIX Century: Fine Bindings from the Libraries of the Tzars of Russia