#levitsky

[otmaaromanovas]

First and last formals: Olga and Maria Nikolaevna

The two were paired together for their last formal photograph session, echoing their first formal photographs together taken in 1899.

1899: photographed by Levitsky

1916: photographed by Alexander Funk

[roughridingrednecks]

Levitsky

[klimbims]

Alexander III | Александр III, 1890 by Olga Via Flickr: Фото: Левицкий Photo by Levitsky

[la-catharsis]

Rafail Levitsky - Bridge in the Woods (1885-96)

[paintingispoetry]

Dmitry Levitsky, Portrait of Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova detail, 1784

[sarcasticcynic]

In How Democracies Die, Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt identify four warning signs that a leader puts democracy at risk:

A weak commitment to democratic rules

Denial of the legitimacy of opponents

Toleration of violence

A willingness to curb civil liberties or the media

“With the exception of Richard Nixon, no major-party presidential candidate met even one of these four criteria over the last century. ... Donald Trump met them all.”

h/t Politico Magazine

[somanyhumanbeings]

Dmitri Levitsky, Portrait of Procope Demidov (1773)

[adini-nikolaevna]

Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich of Russia, later Emperor Pavel I, by Levitsky.