Caroline💛

Posting random interesting stuff ▪️Mostly focused on paintings and historical anectodes about the Medieval era, Victorian era and 20th century▪️

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Fifteen-hundred people went into the sea, when Titanic sank from under us. There were twenty boats floating nearby and only one came back. One. Six were saved from the water, myself included. Six out of fifteen-hundred. Afterward, the seven-hundred people in the boats had nothing to do but wait. Wait to die. Wait to live. Wait for an absolution that would never come.

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In this month, 1918.

On July 17th, 1918, the Czar's family was murdered. Mother, father, daughters and son - all gone in a terrible massacre comitted by a Bolshevik firing squad.

The Emperor, Nicholas II, was 50.

The Empress, Alexandra Feodorovna, was 46.

O.T.M.A were just young adults or adolescents.

And Alexei, a child.

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Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia, in 1896.

Two granddaughters of Queen Victoria of the U.K (they were daughters of Princess Alice) and noted beauties of their time. Both of them were executed in 1918 during the Russian Revolution.

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La Siesta

Technique: oil on canvas

Year: 1841

Artist: Franz Xaver Winterhalter

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Lamia

Technique: oil on canvas

Year: 1905

Artist: John William Waterhouse

This painting was inspired by John Keats' 1820 poem also called "Lamia", a Romantic work featuring mythology, beauty, danger, and tragic love.

Lamia was a serpent-turned-woman who became a stunning girl. She falls in love with a mortal man, Lycius, but their love is doomed.

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Lillie Langtry - mistress of European royals, actress and renowned beauty of her time

Born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton in 1853 in Jersey, England, she was the only girl among seven siblings and received an excellent education, which included lessons for Latin, Math, Greek, German, French, music, and drawing. When she went to London with her first husband Edward Langtry (married 1874), she became the talk of the town due to her beauty and charm, rapidly gaining social influence.

She also became the first publicly- acknowledged mistress of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and managed to maintain a good relationship with his wife, Princess Alexandra, remaining good friends with the Prince until his death.

Due to financial difficulties, she took to the stages in the 1880s, where she was a crowd puller not necessarilly because of her talent, but because of her beauty and notoriety. She proved successful in both the U.S. and Britain, leading to the inauguration of her own theatre company.

Lillie would go on to remarry in 1899 to Hugo de Bathe, after her previous relationships with other notable men. She spent her later years mostly in Monaco and passed away in 1929. Today, she is remembered as a symbol of beauty, social defiance and independence.

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Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII

Year: 1854

Artist: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres