#feodorovna

[ohsoromanov]

Visiting Dress of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. Russia, St Petersburg, circa 1903. Workshop of August Brisac.

[gacougnol]

Feodorovna Shadow Patterns Ink and pastel on extra heavy weight paper

[thepompandcircumstance]

The Danish House of Glücksburg is one that goes deep down in history. They are intertwined with many other monarchies from back in the day up to the present. 

I have long observed the physical resemblance between these two consorts, both descendants of Christian IX of Denmark, but their similarities lie beyond that. 

On the right is the Empress Maria Feodorovna, Princess Dagmar, daughter of Christian IX himself. She married the Tsar Alexander III and is the mother of Russia’s last Tsar Nicholas II. Her elder sister, to whom she was close with, would marry the Prince of Wales and would then be known as Queen Alexandra of the UK.

On the left is Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, daughter of Frederik IX of Denmark and Ingrid of Sweden. She married Constantine II, the last King of the Hellenes.

Both women belong to a now-defunct monarchy and empire, deposed by revolutions within their realm. Imperial Russia would be replaced by a socialist government and Greece would become a republic.

[kootyl]

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna overlooking little Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov.

[historylovers]

Princess Dagmar of Denmark later spouse of Emperor Alexander III and  Empress Maria Feodorovna. (1866?)

[ella-indigo]

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia (1872-1918) with her baby son, Tsarevich Alexei (1904-1918) on the Standart.

source: Ilya Grigoriev’s Flickr.

[detournementsmineurs]

"Princess Dagmar of Denmark (Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia)" (detail) by Andreas Herman Hunæus, 1860s.

[anitanh]

Description du Sacre et du Couronnement de Leurs Majestes Imperiales L'Empereur de Toutes Les Russies (1883). Found in the Internet Archive by AnitaNH