The House of Romanov was the second dynasty, after the House of Rurik, to rule over Russia, and reigned from 1613 until the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II on March 15, 1917. DISCLAIMER: This is a human interest and culture page, NOT a political one. I do not care for your views and arguments on...
These images showing the Royal families of Europe in the final years before the end of the German Empire have emerged as part of a new book chroniclin...
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The young Yusupov family
Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia playing the cello
According to her, Rasputin wasn't all that great.
View image | gettyimages.com Tiara Timeline: The Vladimir Tiara (source) 1874: In August, twenty-year-old Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin becomes a member of the Romanov dynasty when she marries Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia. Vladimir is
Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia c. 1915.
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George V was King of the United Kingdom. He was the first British monarch with the family name Windsor. His father was Edward VII.
“Nikolai Alexandrovich, in view of the fact that your relatives are continuing their attack on Soviet Russia, the Ural Executive Committee has decided to execute you. ” After the Bolshe…
Grand Duke Georgiy Mikhailovich and his daughters Princesses Xenia and Nina.
James Achilles Kirkpatrick (at 16), by Nathaniel Hone the Elder, 1780. Marc Chagall, by Yuri (Yehuda) Pen, 1914. Unknown, circa mid-nineteenth century. Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich, by Osip Braz, 1912. The Boy with the Arrow, by Douglas Volk, 1903. Agasse with a bulldog, by Firmin Massot and Jacques-Laurent Agasse, circa 1795. Prince Kazimierz Nestor Sapieha, by Józef Pitschmann, 1787. Robert S. Day as Rex, King of Carnival, unknown photographer, 1892. Detail of below. Segismundo Moret y Quintana, by Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, 1855. Jaime Girona, later first conde de Eleta, by Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, 1856. Unknown, circa second half of the nineteenth century. (Courtesy Ralf de Jonge.) Portrait of a Young Nobleman, by Jacob Ferdinand Voet (?), circa 1670s-80s. Joven sentado con libro, Gerardo Sacristán Torralba, 1930. Self-portrait, by Louis Meijer, 1838. Rudolph Valentino with his Irish wolfhound Centaur Pendragon, Chicago, circa 1925. Detail of below. Patrick Heatly, by Johan Zoffany, circa 1783-87. Giacomo Meyerbeer (composer, born Jacob Liebmann Beer), by Friedrich Georg Weitsch, 1802. Eustaquio Marín Ramos (painter), by José Villegas Cordero, 1900. Unknown, circa first half of twentieth century. Herthier de Boislambert, by Wojciech Kossak, 1924. Head of a Young Man, also known as Portrait of a Sailor, by John Singer Sargent, 1878. Self-portrait, by Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko, 1894. "Souvenir de Charles de Pape à ses chers cousins de Bruxelles, 22 08 1904." (Courtesy Ralf de Jonge.) William Burlton Bennet en chasseur (in hunting costume), by Henri-Pierre Danloux, 1802. Autoportret z paletą, by Teodor Axentowicz, 1898. John Barrymore, 1897. Peotr Lachinov, by Henri-François Riesener, circa 1820-22. Unknown, circa early twentieth century. (?) Thomas Hooke Pearson, by George Chinnery, circa 1824. Unknown man, formerly known as James Scott Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch, unknown artist, circa 1640s. Self-portrait in Pink, by Domenico Baccarini, 1903. William Henry Betty as Young Norval in "Douglas" by James Heath, by John Opie, 1804.
Young Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich of Russia
My horoscope said today that a tall, dark, handsome man would mug me in a dark alley tonight. Tsar Peter I of Russia (1672-1725, aka Peter the Great - also, a Romanov) could mug me any day,...
Grigori Rasputin in high comapy of bishop Hermogen and monk Iliodor, who later both turned against him
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The Empress Maria Feodorovna, wife of the Emperor Alexander III, sister of Queen Alexandra of England and mother of Nicholas II was born at the Yellow Palace in Copenhagen on this day, 26th November in 1847. The baby princess was daughter of Prin...
