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"I forgot to say that at Torby (home of Countess Sophie Torby) I saw the last photograph of Ksenia Alexandrovna's daughter. How beautiful she is..." Letter from Prince Felix Youssoupoff to his mother, Zenaida in October 1910.

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Nicholas II leading a procession with his wife and mother.

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A young Alexandra Feodorovna, nee Alix of Hesse and by Rhine.

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Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna dressed for the 1903 Imperial Ball.

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Heir Tsesarevich and Grand Duke Alexei Nikolaevich.

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Russian and British postcards of Alexandra Feodorovna and her daughters.

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Gathering of Danish Royal Family.

Maria Feodorovna, nee Dagmar of Denmark, is seen in the front row next to her father and nephews. Maria Georgievna, nee of Greece and Denmark, is between her aunt Alexandra and cousin Maud. Behind her is her (future? not sure of the date on this one) husband, Georgiy Mikhailovich.

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Nicholas II hunting with King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy.

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Just got some photos, not postcards. Allegedly printed in the 1970s from the original negatives. I understand if you are skeptical, but I've bought some photos before with that same provenance. The story on the others was that they belonged to an American Russian-language teacher who took his students on trips to the USSR.

None of them are as big or perfect at that one OTMA 1914 photo I have, but they're neat nonetheless. :)

Anyway you'll be seeing a lot of them in the queue because I'm still waiting for some postcards to arrive.

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Grand Duchess Maria Georgievna and her cousin, Princess Margrethe of Denmark, at the hospital she sponsored at Harrogate.

This is a great example of the the 'photoshop' they often did on photographs that were used in newspapers and magazines. You can clearly see where lines were drawn in to make the figures pop, especially on the lighter tones. It gives it an almost cartoon-like quality.

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Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna with her daughters and grandchildren.

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Anastasia, Maria and Tatiana with their mother Alexandra Feodorovna, Anna Vyrubova, and N.P. Sablin.

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Grand Duke Vladimir and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna dressed up for a costume ball held in their palace in 1883

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Newspaper article announcing engagement of Nada de Torby and Prince George of Battenberg.

Nadejda Mikhailovna de Torby was the daughter of exiled Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich and his morganactic wife, Sophie, Countess de Torby. Nada was a first cousin of Irina Alexandrovna and her brothers, as well as Nina and Xenia Georgievna. Prince George of Battenberg (later 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven) was the elder son of Louis of Battenberg and his wife, Princess Victoria of Hesse. He was a first cousin of OTMAA and elder brother of Maria's admirer, Dickie Mountbatten. They married on 15 November, 1916 and had two children, Tatiana (1917) and David (1919).

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Irina Alexandrovna with her mother Xenia and brother Vasili.