#Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

empress-alexandra · 7 months

Text

Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, 1894.

#Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia #Grand Duchess Xenia of Russia #Grand Duchess Xenia #romanovs #victorian #imperial family #imperial russia #russian imperial family #colored photography #1890s #1894 #1890s fashion

96 notes · View notes

thepastisalreadywritten · 7 months

Text

Empress Maria Feodorovna and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, 1891

—

Maria Feodorovna (Mariya Fyodorovna; 26 November 1847 – 13 October 1928), known before her marriage as Princess Dagmar of Denmark, was Empress of Russia from 1881 to 1894 as the wife of Emperor Alexander III.

She was the second daughter of Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel.

Maria's eldest son became the last Russian monarch, Emperor Nicholas II.

Maria lived for 10 years after Bolshevik functionaries murdered Nicholas and his immediate family in 1918.

Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (6 April [O.S. 25 March] 1875 – 20 April 1960) was the elder daughter and fourth child of Tsar Alexander III of Russia and Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia (née Princess Dagmar of Denmark) and the sister of Emperor Nicholas II.

#Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia #Princess Dagmar of Denmark #Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia #House of Glücksburg #House of Hesse #House of Romanov-Holstein-Gottorp

3 notes · View notes

adini-nikolaevna · 8 months

Text

The children of Emperor Alexander III of Russia.

#emperor nicholas ii #grand duke georgiy alexandrovich #grand duchess xenia alexandrovna #grand duke mikhail alexandrovich #grand duchess olga alexandrovna #romanov #russia

87 notes · View notes

loiladadiani · 9 months

Text

Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna and Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich

Xenia was pregnant and they looked happy here. They had been in love since their teens. They had seven children. In the middle of her pregnancy with the seventh he chose to tell her he had a mistress.

He constantly asked her for a divorce to marry this or that woman.There was a wealthy American. There was the wife of a sculptor who was carving his bust. He wanted to run away to Australia with most of them. There was a young nurse, who already married and years after the relationship, nursed him as he was dying. By the time he was a fifty-something, Sandro was in love with and wanted to marry someone younger than his daughter. Irina begged her mother not to give him a divorce so that he would not embarrass himself.

What was Xenía going to do? She took lovers herself (I have only read of two.) Irina hated the first one, Fane. She suffered through her parents’ marital woes.

Close to the end of his life, he wanted to go back to Xenia (there is a letter from him to her stating so- he says the opposite in his book, of course.) She was too tired and said no.

Xenia and Sandro are buried together in the South of France.

#russian history #imperial russia #romanov family #grand duchess xenia alexandrovna #grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich #Princess Irina Alexandrovna

70 notes · View notes

postcard-from-the-past · 5 months

Text

Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia

Russian vintage postcard

17 notes · View notes

tiaramania · 1 year

Text

Bonhams' Auction

Bonhams' Luxury Paris Jewels auction on February 16th will feature two tiaras and a jewelry catalog that belonged to Grand Duchess Ksenia Alexandrovna.

Diamond Necklace Tiara - estimate 40,000 - 60,000 EUR

Diamond Tiara by Giuseppe Knight - estimate 50,000 - 70,000 EUR

Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia's Personal Jewelry Albums - estimate 50,000 - 70,000 EUR

#tiara auction #tiara #Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna #Russia #Russian Imperial Family #convertible tiara #Giuseppe Knight

99 notes · View notes

lesyoussoupoff · 1 year

Photo

Grand Duke Alexander and Grand Duchess Xenia with their children Princess Irina and Prince Andrei

https://vk.com/lastromanovs

#Grand duchess Xenia Alexandrovna #Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich #Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia #Princess Irina Youssoupoff #prince andrei alexandrovich #Romanov #Yusupov

73 notes · View notes

epoque-victorienne · 1 year

Photo

#Colorized Photo #Colorization #Romanov #Russia #Victorian #1880s #Tsar Nicholas II #Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna #Tsar Alexander III

5 notes · View notes

foreverinthepagesofhistoryy · 6 months

Text

VERY rare photo of Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, early 1880s 🖤🤍

#sorry I haven’t been posting much lately!#xenia Alexandrovna #grand duchess xenia alexandrovna #rare #early 1880s #1880s #romanovs #romanov #russian history #russian imperial family

81 notes · View notes

romanovsonelastdance · 5 months

Text

Close up of Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia.

#romanov #xenia alexandrovna #ksenia aleksandrovna #my collection #close up

71 notes · View notes

mea-gloria-fides · 1 month

Text

HIH The Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna and her daughter HH Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia, 1910.

21 notes · View notes

empress-alexandra · 11 months

Photo

Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, the eldest daughter of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and Empress Maria Alexandrovna of Russia and sister of last Russian Emperor Nicholas II, 1900.

#Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia #Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna #Grand Duchess Xenia #Grand Duchess Xenia of russia #romanovs #imperial russia #Imperial Family #russian imperial family #colored photography #history colored #alexander palace #mauve room #mauve boudoir

81 notes · View notes

otmaaromanovas · 10 months

Text

The Grand Duchesses and sweets

Scientists working with the dental remains of three of the Grand Duchesses concluded that their dental structure and fillings suggested they were “fond of sweets”.

A favourite of the Grand Duchesses in the palace was Jim Hercules, an African American servant. The Grand Duchesses’ aunt, Olga Alexandrovna, recalls how Jim would spend his “annual holiday in the States and brought back jars of guava jelly as presents for the children.” Jim also brought them other American candy, and toys for their playroom.

The head baker at the palace, Ermolaev, specialised in making pastries and confectionery, and even the yacht Standart was equipped with a confectionery kitchen. However, the children still enjoyed the novelty of foreign imported sweets. In June 1912, it was reported that “when the Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of the Emperor Nicholas of Russia, celebrates the eleventh anniversary of her birth on June 18, she will have an abundant supply of American candy. Curtis Guild Jr, American Ambassador to Russia, left New York Tuesday on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse with a trunkful of candy for her.”

In 1916, the Governor of Tver sent the Grand Duchesses pryaniki, a sweet gingerbread cookie biscuit that the region specialised in manufacturing. Sweets were also discussed by fans of the Grand Duchesses: Dolores Sybilla Adam, a teenager from California, once wrote a fan mail letter to Olga Nikolaevna, writing “I should dearly love to make you a great big box of candy and send it to you, from your friend, away in sunny California.”

A love for sweets ran in the family. Conservators recently found a half-chewed piece of sugar paste candy hidden within the dress of the children’s aunt, Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna!

Sources:

Correspondence of the Russian Grand Duchesses: Letters of the Daughters of the Last Tsar, George Hawkins, ([n.p], Independently Published, 2020) [no page numbers], letter beginning Dolores Sybilla Adam to Olga and Tatiana, Nov 25 1913, Amazon Kindle eBook

LUNCH ON THE BALCONY: Recipes from the table of Russia’s last imperial family, Helen Azar, ([n. p.], Independently Published, 2022), Ch. ‘The Confectionary’, [n. p. n] Amazon Kindle eBook

The Many Deaths of Tsar Nicholas II, Wendy Slater, (Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2007), Ch. ‘True Crime’, p. 40, Google Books eBook

Anon. ‘RomanovsOneLastDance’, ‘June 1912’, Tumblr, 25 March 2016

Nicholas and Alexandra, Robert K. Massie, (New York: Laurel, 1985), Ch. ‘The Tsar’s Village’, p. 123, archive.org eBook

Helen Azar, ‘LUNCH ON THE BALCONY: Recipes from the table of Russia’s last imperial family’, (2022), Ch. ‘The Confectionary’

Photos: Public domain, GARF, Heritage Auctions, HA.com, Russia Beyond

#olga nikolaevna #tatiana nikolaevna #maria nikolaevna #anastasia nikolaevna #otma #romanovs #sources #romanov #russian history #sweets #confectionary #cookies #my own

87 notes · View notes

graceofromanovs · 9 months

Text

A loving photograph of Grand Duke Alexandra Mikhailovich of Russia and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia in the Mauve Boudoir of Alexander Palace, taken (most likely) by Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, early 1900s. (x)

#xenia alexandrovna #alexander mikhailovich #history #romanovs #alexandra feodorovna

61 notes · View notes

loiladadiani · 7 months

Text

A very young Xenia with her husband Sandro at the helm

#russian history #imperial russia #romanov family #grand duchess Xenia alexandrovna #grand Duke Sandro mikhailovich

44 notes · View notes

postcard-from-the-past · 5 months

Text

Grand Duchess Xenia and Olga Alexandrovna of Russia

Russian vintage postcard

5 notes · View notes