#sisi of austria

[kaiserinelisabethsposts]

Posthume portrait of Elisabeth by J. von Koppay. (1890s)

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

VERY rare photo of Empress Elisabeth “Sisi” of Austria smiling at the camera, 1870s (?) 🤍✨🥹

Source: Pinterest

[the-angriest-bunny-of-the-fandom]

Sisi (2023) - Season 3

[catherinesboleyn]

Elisabeth of Austria by Franz Xaver Winterhalter / Romy Schneider as Elisabeth of Austria

[emilydickinsonsghost]

It’s so funny to me when gay mentally ill nerds on the internet put more historical research into their fucked up homoerotic fanfiction than major networks do for their period dramas

[madamelareinette]

Portrait of Elisabeth “Sisi” of Wittelsbach, duchess in Bavaria, on horseback in front of her family's summer residence, Possenhofen, by Karl Theodor von Piloty & Franz Adam.

The painting was commissioned in 1853 as a gift to Sisi's fiancé and cousin, Franz Josef I emperor of Austria.

[xkarmilkax]

Quick meme

[awkward-sultana]

(Almost) Every Costume Per Episode + Sisi's wedding gown in 1x01,2,3

[wardrobeoftime]

Sisi (2021) + Costumes

Empress Elisabeth of Austria's blue dress in Season 03, Episode 01.

// requested by @hauntedkaiserin

[la-cocotte-de-paris]

SISI & ICH (2023), dir. Frauke Finsterwalder

[kaiserinelisabethsposts]

Some photographs of Elisabeth’s imperial train compartment.

[obscurehistoricalinterests]

'Sisi' was a terrible empress. Her romanticization needs to STOP.

In more recent decades, Elisabeth has received a growing attention in pop culture: there are several series, films and even a musical paying tribute to her legend. Her beauty is admired, her trials and tribulations are pitied, her struggle to escape the chafing constraints of royal life is celebrated. There's a whiff of feminism surrounding her lately - a strong, intelligent woman, metaphorically, and if we take the film Corsage, even literally flipping off the patriarchy. She's galloping through forests barefoot, she's facing off her tyrannical mother in law, she's fighting for her freedom, for control over her own life. German writer Karen Duve goes as far as to call Elisabeth "an undiscovered feminist icon." 

But... was she? One of her ladies in waiting once said that Elisabeth will "live on in legend, not in history". And right she was. You see, Elisabeth has triumphed. When I look around, it seems as if we see her exactly as she would have wanted us to. A tragic heroine, a beautiful apparition, a nymph who somehow got trapped in the mortal realm, to her immense suffering. And for a modern woman,  there is much to empathize with in Elisabeth: her sublime sensitivity, her iron self-discipline, her headstrong character, her inborn thirst for freedom. But upon lifting the starry veil of this ethereal fairy-tale queen, one will find the face of a much more complex, flawed and ultimately human woman. Self-obsessed and narcissistic, monstrously selfish and possessive, cruelly indifferent to her empire (with one all-consuming exception), incessantly self-victimizing and deeply, deeply unhappy - overwhelmingly through her own fault.  

[the-angriest-bunny-of-the-fandom]

me upon finding out that empress Sisi had a tattoo, was Sapphic and faked being ill to skip out on the court life:

[tearsofbriseis]

DOMINIQUE DEVENPORT in SISSI

[archduchessofnowhere]

Archduchess Sophie in Die Kaiserin: *orders public executions, reigns from the shadows, tries to force FJ to marry someone he doesn't want, tries to emotionally break Elisabeth into submission, doesn't love Max, cheats on her husband*

Archduchess Sophie in her letters: My beloved son❤️ I hope you're doing well💪 Yesterday Papa👨 and I had tea🍵 with Ludwig👦, Grandmama👵 and Uncle Ludwig👴. Sisi👸 looked so beautiful at the ball💃 in her new gown👗, she has such great style!! I'm going to order a dress for me just like hers❤️ The current situation in Italy is stressing me so much😞 but Franzi👑💕 will surely prevail!! All my love, mama❤️💕 

[ladybeesbury]

Sissi {1955}