#russian nobility

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Portrait of Princess Sophia Radziwill (1864) (detail)

via meisterdrucke.us

[lesyoussoupoff]

[la-belle-histoire]

Portrait of Maria Ivanovna Kochubey-Baryatinskaya, Christina Robertson. 1840s.

[thebaroquehuman]

1877-1882 Princess Maria Grigoryevna Rayevskaya, née Gagarina - Ivan Makarov

[royalty-nobility]

Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna of Russia (1830-1911)

Artist: Franz Xaver Winterhalter (German, 1805-1873)

Date: 1859

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, London, United Kingdom

Description

Considered a great beauty in her youth, with a tall, graceful figure, the Grand Duchess Alexandra, or ‘Sanny’, was the fifth daughter of Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg and Amalie Therese Louise, Duchess of Württemberg. In September 1848 she married Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaevich, second son of Nicholas I, and younger brother to Alexander II; they had six children, including Olga Constantinovna, grandmother to Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Their early years of marriage were happy and the couple shared a love of music; however, they gradually drifted apart.

[pompeianred]

Countess Barbara Dmitrievna Rimskaya-Korsakova | 1864 Franz Xaver Winterhalter

[portrait-paintings]

Portrait of Princess Tatyana Vasilievna Yusupova, Born Engelhart, Wife of Prince N.E. Yusupov

Artist: Christina Roberson (English, 1796-1854)

Date: 1841

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Mikhailovsky Castle, The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Description

Yusupova, Tatyana Vasilyevna (née Engelhardt; 1769–1841) — princess, daughter of V. A. Engelhardt and M. A. Potemkina, youngest niece of His Serene Highness Prince G. A. Potemkin-Tavrichesky. Maid of honor to Catherine II (since 1781). Since 1785 — wife of Lieutenant General M. S. Potemkin. In her second marriage (1793) to the actual privy councilor Prince N. B. Yusupov. Collected carved and precious stones. Her house was visited by G. R. Derzhavin, V. A. Zhukovsky, A. S. Pushkin, I. A. Krylov. She was buried in the Annunciation Church of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

[adini-nikolaevna]

Princess Irina “Bébé” Felixovna Yusupova, great-granddaughter of Emperor Alexander III of Russia. The portrait is housed at the Arkhangelskoye Museum.