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“On the train, the girls are sprawling on the floor with the sun shining full upon them to get brown. From whom have they got that craze?”
- Empress Alexandra Feodorovna
And they say Cary Grant was the first one to pick up on how “cool” tanning was- hah!
Rare of Tsar Nicholas II and Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna (source)
Thank you for these last few, Romanov Russia Today! Sorry to see you leave Facebook and Tumblr!
From the VK: A few members of the Imperial Family
I’m still sticking with this being GD Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia holding her French bulldog puppy, Ortino; C. 1914.
Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana with their grandmother Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorovna and a hospital staff (source)
Sisters, Late 1890s
The name of dragoons officer Hubert Rochereau is commemorated on a war memorial in Bélâbre, his native village in central France, along with those of other young men who lost their lives in the first world war.
But Rochereau also has a much more poignant and exceptional memorial: his room in a large family house in the village has been preserved with his belongings for almost 100 years since his death in Belgium.
Nice photo from vk!
Maria Nikolaevna with her little brother Alexei Nikolaevich & cossacks in 1916
The Young Victoria
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge leaves the Natural History Museum after she attended the Wildlife Photographer of The Year 2014 Awards Ceremony | October 21, 2014
Blossom Time, 1910 - Willard Leroy Metcalf
Evening Dresses
c.1911-1913
France
The empire style of a straight column of drapery and a high waist was high fashion especially in the years 1912 and 1913. Heavy fringe on delicate fabrics was popular, too, like the white silk fringe and silver beaded fringe on the sleeves and on the train of the green dress. The bodice is trimmed with pale pink pearls and pink chiffon rose buds. The other evening gown has similar proportions with the high waist and short sleeves, although the shape is less angular and more curved, like the swirling feathers “drawn” on the net overskirt in black and silver sequins. However soft they both look, they both are boned in the bodice. Both dresses belonged to Florence Elizabeth Hopwood ‘11 who married the widowed tycoon, Charles William Gates soon after her graduation. Both dresses are likely made in France. (Smith College Historic Clothing Collection)
Article I of the Fundamental Laws of Imperial Russia (via history-in-pictures)
The 2 children of Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia, Prince Teymuraz and his younger sister Princess Natalia; C. 1915.
Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Grand Duchess of Hesse, later Grand Duchess Viktoria Feodorovna of Russia. She is wearing her diamond and emerald tiara, wedding gift from her parents.
