Tsar Alexander III
Grand Duchess Xenia with husband, Alexander Mikhailovich, and their children.
Empress Alexandra with an old man.
Maria
Tsarevich Alexei.
Nicholas and Alix.
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna.
Grand Duchess Olga with wounded soldiers of WWI.
Anastasia.
Tsarinas Consorts of Russia {15/16}: Maria Feodorovna (Princess Dagmar of Denmark).
“By the time Marie married Alexander, her father was Christian IX, King of Denmark, her elder sister Alexandra was married to the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VII, and her brother Wilhelm was King of Greece. Yet when she was born in 1847 the young Dagmar, as she was then called, could have expected little of this glory. Her family lived in relative poverty in a small grace and favour mansion in Copenhagen, minor cousins of Denmark’s King Frederick. Their situation only improved in 1852, when the childless King adopted Christian as his heir. For the first five years of her life, therefore, Dagmar was almost a commoner. She could hardly fail to be aware of the luck behind her sudden elevation. She revelled in her good fortune; her vivaciousness would eventually make her the most eligible bride in Europe.”
- Faberge’s eggs | Toby Faber.
(movies: A Royal Affair / Anna Karenina)