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teatimeatwinterpalace · 22 days

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Louis IV Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine with his two eldest daughters Princess Victoria and Princess Elizabeth, 1883.

#louis iv #princess victoria of hesse #grand duchess elizabeth feodorovna #romanov #russia #hesse #look at those hq photographs #i'm crying #ella's dress is so pretty :')#and louis wig!!!!!!#lmao

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thehessiansisters · 5 months

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Portraits of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia along with Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, wearing costumes of Tsar Alexei and Tsarina Maria Ilyinichna Miloslavskaya for the 300 years anniversary of the Romanov dynasty, Winter Palace, 1903.

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empress-alexandra · 4 months

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Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia (Princess Dagmar of Denmark), mother of the last Russian Tsar, early 1880s.

#russian imperial family #imperial russia #imperial family #romanovs #victorian #colored photography #history colored #empress maria feodorovna of russia #empress maria of russia #empress maria feodorovna #princess dagmar of denmark #dagmar of denmark #danish royal family #danish royalty #1880s fashion'#1880s #1882

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the-alexander-i · 1 month

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Whiteboard doodles!!!

#history #napoleon #napoleonic wars #tsar alexander i #art #alexander i of russia #historical yaoi #doodles #extremely gay activity’s #napalex #joachim murat #whiteboard #konstantin #napoleon bonaparte #princess josephine

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la-belle-histoire · 3 months

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Princess Tatiana Konstantinovna of Russia in Fairy Costume, c. 1900s-1910s.

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everythingroyalty · 10 months

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First cousins Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (1868-1935) and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (1872-1918) having a laugh together at a family photo session at Bernstorff Palace in Denmark in 1899 ✨

#toria and alix 😭🫶#holding hands 🤌#royaltyedit #historyedit #alexandra feodorovna #princess victoria #british royal family #princess victoria of the united kingdom #imperial russia #1899 #royal cousins #**#gif: misc #fredensborgdagene

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illustratus · 2 months

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Princess Tarakanova by Pavel Svedomsky

#princess tarakanova #art #pavel svedomsky #russia #russian #history #europe #european

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kaiserrreich · 7 months

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Empress Alexandra of Russia, having her likeness modeled in clay, three years before the revolution of 1917.

Source & colorization credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/9h2q7x/empress_alexandra_of_russia_having_her_likeness/

#oldschoolcool #tsarina alexandra #empress alexandra feodorovna #princess alix of hesse #russian monarchy #russia #monarchy #tsardom of russia #romanov dynasty #romanov family #romanovs #antique

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usssnarfblat · 6 months

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Did Anastasia deserve to die for her family's crimes against Fieval's family?

I've always found it interesting that "Anastasia" and "An American Tail" were made by the same guy...

My mom got us "An American Tail" as kids, since we were Jewish, and a Disney-like movie with Jewish characters was a one-of-a-kind thing. ("The Prince of Egypt" was still a few years away. Yes, I'm that old.) More to the point, my dad's side of the family is largely Russian Jews, who immigrated in the early 1920s, for exactly the same reasons as the Mouskewitz. Being a child of this background and very literally obsessed with cats, I had mixed feelings about the movie.

When "Anastasia" came out a few years later, Mom didn't let that history stop us from enjoying the new princess movie, but she didn't shelter us from it either. We regarded it like we did the real history behind any sugar-coated princess movie. She even got us some history books about the real Romanov family, and we were fascinated by the subject.

Still, it's an odd elephant in the room, watching "Anastasia" and knowing that her granddad was the one who sent those Cossack cats after Fievel's village, and her dad himself continued doing it to the Jewish mice who didn't leave.

"Go, Pompom, Kibble and Fluff-Baron! Kill those Jew mice, and I'll give you extra catnip treats tonight!"

Don Bluth presents both the Romannov family and their victims with equal sympathy, even opening both movies with the family celebrating a holiday, with the kid heroes getting a plot-specific present, before being viciously attacked.

"Wow Grandmama! Fieval and Tanya could use this as a merry-go-round!"

*Cough* "Yes uh, about those Jewish mice Sweetie..."

Bluth's portrayal of the Romanov family is not entirely inaccurate. By all accounts, Nicholas II was a deeply loving father who both doted on his children, but raised them not to be spoiled. Despite being royalty, the princesses shared bedrooms and did charity work at hospitals.

It's a baffling irony that Nicholas was nevertheless was a tyrant, and not remotely just to his Jewish subjects. When I was about twelve, Mom got me the Dear America book A Coal Miner's Bride, about the Catholic Polish immigrants who also fled the oppression of the Russian Tzar. (Anastasia's family conquered part of Poland in the 1800s, banning the Pols from speaking their own language and drafting their sons into the Tzar's dick-measuring contest wars.) Anyway, that's what my mom's side of the family was fleeing when they immigrated. Yes, my family has double reason to hate the Romanovs.

So, I personally don't have a lot of sympathy for Nicholas II. But the horrors his poor wife and children endured in their final moments never fails to get the reaction from me.

The rationalization for the murder of the children and queen was that it was the only way to ensure that the monarchy never returned. But I assume most modern-thinking people would say that the ends do not justify the means in this case.

That said, millions of families like Anetka's and Fievel's suffered as bad or worse than the Romanovs, because of the Romanovs, and no one remembers them because they didn't wear tiaras. This no doubt was another factor that killed sympathy for the Romanov children. But they were still children.

The question today is, if we can feel for a family that was literal royalty, despite their father being an undeniable tyrant against our own families...can we also feel for Palestinian and Israeli families, during a conflict that is vastly more complicated than Imperial Russia?

Or do they need to be cute mice and glittery princesses to get our attention?

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adini-nikolaevna · 3 months

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Grand Duke Georgiy Mikhailovich of Russia with his daughter, Princess Nina Georgievna.

#grand duke georgiy mikhailovich #princess nina georgievna #romanov #russia

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lesyoussoupoff · 7 months

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Prince Andrei Alexandrovich, Prince Feodor Alexandrovich, and Princess Irina Alexandrovna

#Prince Andrei Alexandrovich #Prince Feodor Alexandrovich #Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia #Princess Irina Youssoupoff #Romanov #Yusupov

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thehessiansisters · 4 months

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Portraits of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna wearing uniform of the chief of the 5th Hussar Alexandria regiment, Tsarkoye Selo, 1911.

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empress-alexandra · 7 months

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Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia with her second child Grand Duchess Tatiana Nicholaievna of Russia, 1898.

#empress alexandra feodorovna #empress alexandra of russia #princess alix of hesse #grand duchess tatiana of russia #grand duchess tatiana nicholaievna #otma #romanovs #imperial children #imperial russia #russian imperial family #1890s #1898 #1890s fashion #victorian #colored photography #history colored

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foreverinthepagesofhistory · 7 months

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~ ♡ The Two Tatiana’s ♡ ~

Tatiana Konstantinovna ~ 1890-1979

The 1st daughter of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, a third-cousin of Tsar Nicholas II. She was a very quiet child who reportedly had the talent for playing the piano. In 1911 she married Prince Bagration of Mukhrani who was serving in the Russian Imperial Guards and had two children (Teimuraz and Natalia) before he sadly perished in WWI. After this she escaped the revolution and eventually joined a nunnery before she died in 1979.

Tatiana Nikolaevna ~ 1897-1918

The second child of Tsar Nicholas II , Tatiana grew up surrounded in a close knit family who often took vacations to various places in Russia. She was a very well behaved child and was very studious and confident. She was known to be very beautiful and was often called “The Governess” by her 4 siblings for her organized ways. At the start of WWI she became a nurse and was very good in the operating rooms. During the revolution she was under house arrest with her family and eventually was executed by the Bolsheviks at the age of 21.

#🤍🤍🤍#tatiana nikolaevna #tatiana konstantinovna #romanov #romanovs #grand duchess tatiana nikolaevna #grand duchess tatiana #princess tatiana Konstantinovna #royal aesthetics #russian history #russian imperial family #imperial russia #otma #romanov family

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stefhy846loveu · 3 months

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#princess diana #diana spencer #princess of wales #fashion #iconic #british royal family #1990s #russia

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loiladadiani · 9 months

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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

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