EXTREMELY, never before seen, rare photo of the four eldest children of Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and By Rhine and Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland riding in a small carriage 🤍
From left to right: Victoria, Ernst Louis, Irene, and Elisabeth 🤎
Source: Hessian State Archives
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A page of the diary of 12-years old Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, when she met Tsesarevich Nikolai of Russia at the wedding day of her sister Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, who was marrying Nicholas' uncle, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich. Both poem and drawing made by Alix!!
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Élisabeth Feodorovna... Sœur de la tsarine Alexandra, elle mourra elle aussi en 1918, de façon tout aussi atroce... 💔
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5th May 1912 part 1/2
Photo 1-2 : Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna and Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna in Oreanda, 5th May 1912.
Photo 3 : Grand Duchess Eleonore of Hesse and by Rhine and Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine in Oreanda, 5th May 1912.
Photo 4 : Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna at the ruins of the Oreanda palace, 5th May 1912.
Photo 5 : Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna at the ruins of the Oreanda palace, 5th May 1912.
Photo 6 : Tsar Nicholas II at the ruins of the Oreanda palace, 5th May 1912.
Photo 7 : Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna in Oreanda, 5th May 1912.
Photo 8 : Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna and Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna in Oreanda, 5th May 1912.
"5th May. Saturday.
With A[unt] and T[atiana] rode on horseback to Oreanda on the Cross Hill. Zlebov and Kublitsky had breakfast with us. In the afternoon, all together and with Mama went to Oreanda and from there we 2 with Aunts, Papa and Uncle went to Harax for tea. The weather was wonderful. Was at vsenoshchnoy. Had dinner on the balcony. There was a thunderstorm."
1912 Diary of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna
Photos from:
Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna's 1912-1916 Album/ Pages 9&9b - photo 125, 126, 128, 129, 130, 132
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna's 1910-1912 Album/ Page 25b - photo 384, 385
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“Sometimes I feel bad that I don't have the same sympathy for certain royal figures as a lot of royal watchers/researchers. It is truly hard for me to feel too bad for Alix of Hesse, Anne Boelyn, or Empress Sisi. It makes me feel unempathetic. But at the same, I know I have read sooo much about them and still find them to be unlikable people. Someone can be a tragic figure who didn't deserve it and also be a not-so-good person. I wish other people could admit that. Many iconic royals were assholes, including Queen Victoria.” - Submitted by Anonymous
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EXTREMELY RARE photo of Princesses Victoria, Elisabeth, and Irene of Hesse and By Rhine, 1868-69 🤍✨⭐️
Source: my lucky day at the Hessian State Archives
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Happy 159th birthday to Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna (née Princess of Hesse and By Rhine), Nov. 1st 1864 🤍
“Heard just before going out by telegraph from Louis, that dear Alice had got a 2nd daughter… & that both were doing well. Very thankful, as had felt rather anxious about her, but am sorry it is again a girl…”
— Queen Victoria’s diary, Nov. 1st 1864
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Princess Ella of Hesse and by Rhine (Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna of Russia), Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine (Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, with their nephew Prince Waldemar of Prussia, son of Princess Irene.
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“I did a portrait of the Grand Duchess Anna, the wife of the Grand Duke Konstantin. She, born a Princess of Saxe-Coburg, did not have a celestial face like her sister-in-law, was nevertheless sweetly pretty. She was probably sixteen, and her features were all life and mirth. Not that this young Princess ever knew much happiness in Russia…”
- Louise Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun on Grand Duchess Anna Feodorovna of Russia (née Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld).
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