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Painting of the Last Imperial family of Russia:Tsar Nicholas ll of Russia.A♥W

Self-portraits by Grand duchess Olga Alexandrovna. Olga was an avid artist who as seen here was quite skilled as a painter. All of the Romanov children learned art, and many were talented. The one in...

תוצאת תמונה עבור ‪Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna painting‬‏

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My Anastasia painting is finished. Here is a memoir of someone who knew Anastasia from the hospital she and Marie would visit. I think he has caught her quite well! One feels she's just rushed out sight to play a new prank else where “When the Grand Duchesses came, in particular the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, there would begin a terrible fuss and endless lines of pranks. The Grand Duchess was a desperate ‘minx’ and a loyal friend to others, especially to the tsesarevich. The two…

My Anastasia painting is finished. Here is a memoir of someone who knew Anastasia from the hospital she and Marie would visit. I think he has caught her quite well! One feels she's just rushed out sight to play a new prank else where “When the Grand Duchesses came, in particular the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, there would begin a terrible fuss and endless lines of pranks. The Grand Duchess was a desperate ‘minx’ and a loyal friend to others, especially to the tsesarevich. The two…

Black-and-white photograph of bald and bearded Alexander III wearing a military uniform and surrounded by his children and wife.

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Surikov streltsi - מרד 1698 – ויקיפדיה

The Coronation of Tsar Nicholas ll of Russia in 1896. "AL"

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Portrait by the artist Georges Becker of the coronation of Tsar Alexander III and Empress Maria Fyodorovna, which took place on 27 May [O.S. 15 May] 1883 at the Uspensky Sobor of the Moscow Kremlin. On the left of the dais can be seen his young son and heir, the Tsarevich Nicolas, and behind Nicolas can be seen a young Grand Duke George.

Family Nicholas II of Russia ca. 1914 - Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) - Wikipedia

Wedding of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna by Laurits Tuxen (1895-6, Royal coll.) - Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) - Wikipedia

Queen Louise wears an early 1880s court dress with cuirasse bodice and fullness from middle back in this portrait.

The Romanovs. Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia, spouse of Emperor Nicholas II, photographed in court dress.

Despite the best efforts of Queen Victoria, Edward VII, Tsar Nicholas II and George V all loathed Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II.

The fourth Historical Sew Monthly challenge of 2016, due by the end of April, is Gender-Bender. In this challenge you should make an item for the opposite gender, or make an item with elements inspired by the fashions of the opposite gender. The first option in the challenge is easy: if you have someone of the opposite gender to sew for, or an excuse to make something historical that was traditionally worn by the opposite gender for yourself. Personally, I’ve always hankered for my own pair…

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Ecole de François Clouet (1522-1572). Portrait de François d'Alençon et d'Elisabeth, Archiduchesse et Reine de France (1544-1592)....

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Portrait Of A Young Woman, Probably Mary Of Burgundy - South Netherlandish School - WikiGallery.org, the largest gallery in the world: wikigallery - the largest virtaul gallery in the world with more than 150,000 on display. Always open and always free!

Louis IX le Saint (25/04/1214 Poissy - 25/08/1270 Tunis) - Fils de Louis VIII le Lion - Dynastie des Capétiens

Charles le téméraire....looks remarkably like his descendant Charles Windsor, Prince of Wales....

This Day In History: September 22, 1761 “Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Britain” – George III George III, one of England’s most illustrious monarchs, was crowned King at the age of 22 on September 22, 1761. He ascended the throne almost a year earlier when his grandfather, George II, died (on the toilet [...]

Artist: Holbein d. J., Hans, Title: Edward, Prince of Wales, Date: 1543

Lady Eleanor Brandon (1519 – 27 September 1547) Later Eleanor Clifford, Countess of Cumberland, was the third child and second daughter of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Princess Mary Tudor, the Dowager Queen consort of France.

Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, became the first English monarch of the Tudor dynasty by his victory.

A painting from 1687 shows Princess Anne of Denmark before she became Great Britain's Queen Anne.

King Malcolm & Queen Margaret of Scotland

View 'Henry VIII’s Psalter' on the British Library website

Lady Jane Grey (b.1537 r.1553 d.1554)

Jane Seymour wears an English hood with the veil portion folded up in this portrait.

TIME Magazine Cover: King Christian X

Christian X of Denmark (1870 - 1947). King of Denmark from 1912 to his death in 1947. King of Iceland from 1918 to 1944. He married Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and had two sons. He was the only King of Iceland.

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Oil on canvas. English painter and printmaker. He was the son of Charles Hayter (1761-1835), miniature painter, author of manuals for art instruction and Professor of Perspective and Drawing to Princess Charlotte. In 1808 George entered the Royal Academy Schools, and in 1815 was appointed Painter of Miniatures and Portraits by Princess Charlotte. Hayter was awarded the British Institution's premium for history painting for the Prophet Ezra (1815). Encouraged by his patron, John Russell, 6th…

In the 1913 edition of Who’s Who In America, there is an insertion of biographical information pertaining to an individual, not stan...

Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor

Un lugar para publicar y analizar los cuadros de las grandes batallas de la humanidad, desde la antigua Grecia hasta la invencion del cine a sido el unico mo…

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indypendenthistory: “ Kaiser Wilhelm II reviews his troops as Commander-in-Chief of the German Army. A close look at the Kaiser reveals the withered left arm he was born with. The Kaiser overcame the...

On 14 July 1683 the Ottoman Turks arrived before the Habsburg capital. The Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa is portrayed here directing the troops

Dömeke Harbi,The Attack 1896. Fausto Zonaro ( Italian 1854 – 1929)

Empress Elizabeth aged 17

Tableau de Jacques-Louis David (Château de La Malmaison)

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