The Romanov and Hessian royal families at Schloß Wolfsgarten, during the Romanov’s trip to Germany in the summer-autumn 1910📍🇩🇪
Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, who was Princess Alix of Hesse prior to her marriage, is seen in the photo surrounded by family, friends, and staff. Nearby sit two of her siblings, Princess Irene of Prussia and Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig. Ernst Ludwig’s two surviving children, Georg Donatus and Ludwig, sit between Tsesarevich Alexei Nikolaevich and Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna.
Doctor Yevgeny Sergeievich Botkin, the Imperial family’s doctor, is seen on the left in the second row from the top. He would be murdered alongside the Romanov family eight years later in July 1918.
SOURCES
📷 Photograph shared by: LastRomanovs, ‘Альбом Александры Федоровны, 1895-1911 гг., (ГАРФ ф.640 оп.3 д.37 )’ Flickr, shared 3 February 2021, [Accessed 10/07/2025]
📷 For Alexandra’s Darmstadt album, see LastRomanovs, ‘Альбом Александры Федоровны, 1910 год (ГАРФ ф.640 оп.3 д.43)’, Flickr, shared 18 November 2022, [Accessed 27/07/2025]’
📷 Photograph of the stairs today shared by the Catalogue of St Elizabeth’s Convent, ‘A Visit to Saint Elisabeth’s Hometown Darmstadt (PART 2)’, catalog obitel minsk, shared 11 August 2022, [accessed 28 July 2025]
