#empress elizabeth

[lvcygraybaird]

THE GREAT ⇢ 3x06 | ICE

Let us all sing a rousing Russian war song! We will restore monarchy! So, with me, everyone!

[enchantingqueenkitten]

Your Royal Highness, it is time - The Empress

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Józef Oleszkiewicz (Polish-Lithuanian, 1777 - 1830) Milosierdzie i opieka nad ubogimi cesarzowej Elzbiety, 1813 National Museum in Warsaw

[himejoshi-phd]

I been reading The Reluctant Empress by Brigitte Hamann. It's a biography on Empress Sissi of Austria. The most recent chapter I finished was "Cult of Beauty" which detailed The Empress' obsession with her own beauty and that of others.

This chapter was just me going from "it's fun to read this through a sapphic lens" to "🤨" increasingly over the course of it.

[luminescentdark]

[russpals]

The Catherine Palace

The Catherine Palace is one of the largest in the vicinity of St. Petersburg. It is located in Pushkin (formerly Tsarskoye Selo), 25 kilometers south of St. Petersburg. The palace was built in 1717 as the summer residence of Empress Catherine I.

In 1752, Empress Elizabeth asked the architect Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli to rebuild the palace because she considered it too old-fashioned and small. The reconstruction lasted four years; the modern palace was completely rebuilt in the Russian Baroque style. The size of the Grand Palace is seen immediately. The final touch in the construction and decoration of the Catherine Palace was the Main Staircase in the Rococo style, created in 1863 by the Russian architect I. Monighetti. 

After the Revolution, the Catherine Palace was turned into a museum. Today, 32 rooms of the palace are in exhibition. The most interesting place of the palace for tourists is the famous Amber room, restored in 2003. The main decoration of the Amber Room was made at the beginning of the XVIII century in Prussia, in 1716. It was presented by King Friedrich Wilhelm I to Peter I; in 1746, it was completed and fit in the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg in 1755, it was moved back to Tsarskoye Selo (see two photos of the Amber Room below.)

The Catherine Palace is as impressive inside as outside. The Great Hall (below), also known as the Hall of Light, measures nearly 1,000 square meters and occupies the full width of the palace so that there are superb views on either side. Using similar techniques but on a smaller scale, the White Dining Room is equally luxurious but, like many of the rooms in the palace, its grandeur is softened by the presence of a beautiful traditional blue-and-white tiled stove in the corner. 

[julyzaa]

If someone told me they loved me and wanted a relationship repeatedly after me politely turning them down i too would light the couch we were just sitting on on fire the moment they left

[fairweathermyth]

I cannot kill people in cold blood! That is not me. That is not the nation I wish to build. I thought I would write a speech about forgiveness, it's a new day for us all, and release them. I see your looks. I'm naïve. I think people can be changed by reason, and a few pithy words will unlock their hearts and minds, and the good of all will be seen and sacrifices will be made for that.

THE GREAT 3.01 The Bullet & The Bear + 3.02 Choose Your Weapon

[teatimeatwinterpalace]

Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, Princess Alix of Hesse, Grand Duke Louis IV, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, Prince Ernest Louis, 1888.

[p1325]

Barbie Collector - Women of Royalty

Queen Elizabeth the First

Marie Antoinette

Sissi, the Empress

Joséphine de Beauharnais/Bonaparte

[empress-alexandra]

Princess Alix of Hesse (later Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia) with her sister Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia, 1890.

[perioddramapolls]

Period dramas' dresses tournament: Golden-yellow dresses

Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Semifinals Finals

Winner: Bai Zhouyue's dress, from Novoland: eagle flag

Costume designer: Yee Chung-man

[imnotawitch]

I've been playing around with designs for a Scarlet Witch Tarot Card

[queenaryastark]

Devrim Lingnau as Empress Elisabeth of Austria in The Empress

[keiraonfilm]

Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann in The Pirates of The Caribbean trilogy. (2003-2007)