Etched in the Frost

A true Aquarius is most ways, her life is pretty much a dull existence. She is a childfree, bibliophilic introvert. Books are a huge part of her life and her greatest passion. More than two thousand are in her ever expanding collection. You can find everything from language dictionaries and history to romance novels and art. books. The Kindle Fire is one of the greatest bits of technology to ever come along. Pursuits and interests vary and change. Some have been ongoing while other are cast aside for something newer and more interesting. Among the ones that have endured are reading, writing, history (Egyptian, mythology, mediveal, Tudor England, Scotland, Ireland, Regency, Victorian, American west and cowboys, immigrants to America, the last Imperial Family of Russia, the Romanovs); genealogy, the history and meaning of names, art, listening to music, watching movies and animals. .

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1860 Silk dress (skirt and bodice) (Hungary)

(Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest)

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happy pride month !!

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Private photograph depicting Princess Elisabeth of Hesse with her German cousins, Prince Gottfried and Princess Marie Melita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. I would date the photograph as 1903, because Elisabeth looks quite grown up. She is wearing a bridal gown and a veil surmounted by a star.

Close up of Elisabeth. Notice the gap between her front teeth, something her Russian cousins and her own father also had as children:

source: latest addition to my collection

[thisfeebleheart]

"It's a long story."

Shane and Ilya through the years

[the1920sinpictures]

1922 Two-piece navy wool suit with embroidery and celluloid buckle with Egyptian motif. It was a going away suit for an American bride, and was very on trend for 1922. From The Fashion History Museum.

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1850 Adam Józef Potocki (photo by Alexis Louis Charles Gouin)

(National Museum, Warsaw)

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1660-1690 Benedetto Gennari the Younger - Portrait of Ippolita Obizzi Campeggi (?)

(Collezioni Comunali d'Arte, Bologna)

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1846 Leopold Kupelwieser - Portrait of a woman (Rosalie von Hohenwart ?)

(Moravian Gallery, Brno)

[chic-a-gigot]

L'Art et la mode, no. 31, vol. 28, 3 août 1907, Paris. Robe de taffetas pékiné; veste à taille courte. Manche de mousseline plissée. Imp. d'art L. Lafontaine, Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France

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Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and by Rhine with his children Victoria (on stairs), Irene (holding horse's bridle), Elisabeth and Alix (seated in the carriage). Ernest Louis is seated on a tricycle.

Wolfsgarten 1880s

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Josefine Swoboda (29 January 1861 – 27 October 1924) was an Austrian artist who focused on watercolor portraits. She was from a family of artists and her first lessons in painting were done with her father Eduard Swoboda.

In 1890 she earned the title of court painter from Queen Victoria. She would work off and on for the British royal family until 1899.

Alexandra, Princess of Wales 1895

Princess Alice of Battenberg 1891

Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg 1890

Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein 1897

Prince Leopold of Battenberg 1890

Princess Patricia of Connaught

Princess Elizabeth of Hesse and by Rhine 1899

Source of paintings: Royal Collection Trust

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Prince Henry of Prussia, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Princess Louise of Battenberg, and Prince Sigismund of Prussia.

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King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra at Cowes, Isle of Wight, August 1909

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Grand Duchesse Anastasia, Olga, Tatiana and Maria

"Taken on board the "New Zealand" on Maria's 15th birthday, 14 June 1914. Photo from Grand Duchess Olga's album GARF 673-1-204 No. 28"

Source: George Hawkins via Facebook in the group "Princess Victoria of Hesse, Princess Louis Battenberg Victoria MilfordHaven"

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Formal photographs of the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia. Taken on 11 August 1916 by Alexander Funk, these would become the last formal photographs the sisters would ever sit for. In less than two years their lives would cruelly come to an end.

Anastasia, Olga, Maria and Tatiana

Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia

Olga

Anastasia

Maria and Olga

Tatiana

Anastasia

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For her coronation on 15 October 1922 Queen Marie of Romania had a new crown made for herself instead of wearing the same one worn by her predecessor, Queen Elisabeth.

Marie's crown was modeled after the one worn by Milica Despina, the wife of 16th-century Wallachian ruler Neagoe Basarab. Designed by Costin Petrescu, it was made in the Art Nouveau style by Falize, a Parisian jewelry house.

Made of gold mined from the Transylvania region of Romania, it contained rubies, emeralds, amethyst, turquoise and opals and weighed 4 pounds (1.8 kg). Grains of wheat decorate the base of the crown topped by eight large and eight small flower ornaments connected by interlacing branches. A globe and cross sit a top the eight arches above the flower ornaments. The crown had two pendants on the sides; these hang from either side of the headband just above the ear, each bearing a coat of arms- on of Romania and the other, the arms of the Duke of Edinburgh, which Marie had used as her own arms prior to her marriage. From each of these pendula hang three chains, each with a cross within a gold circle at the end.

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Princess Alice of Battenberg and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. About 1901.

Nicholas was married to Alexandra, who was the youngest sister of Alice's mother, Victoria. Alexandra and Victoria were born Princesses of Hesse and by Rhine and granddaughters of Queen Victoria via her second daughter, Alice.

In 1903 Alice would marry Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, a cousin of Nicholas' and her last born child would become Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. Alice was the grandmother of King Charles III.

Though congenitally deaf, Alice learned to read lips and speak English and German, and also later Greek, the language of her new homeland.