Måned: august 2023
Happy independence day
Today, Ukraine celebrates 32 years of independence. The independence day is the main state holiday in modern Ukraine, celebrated on August 24 in commemoration of the Declaration of Independence of 1991. In 1916 the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna left Petrograd (Sct. Petersburg) to join her daugther, the grandduchess Olga then working as a trained nurse […]
Alexei Nicholaevich
Alexei Nikolaevich (12 August [O.S. 30 July] 1904 – 17 July 1918) was the last Tsarevich (Heir apparent to the throne of the Russian Empire). He was the youngest child and only son of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden , whose father was appointed ambassador to the Royal Danish Court […]
Book release
Our latest book release features articles commemorating the danish princess Dagmar – the Russian empress Maria Feodorovna – and the memorable moments and places in Denmark dearest to her heart: – The double engagements to the granddukes Nicolas (1864) and Alexander (1866) at the Bernstorff and Fredensborg Palaces – The grand fête celebrated at her […]
Dress belonging to empress Maria Feodorovna
Thousands of sparkling sequins, pearls and jetbeads all hand embroidered by nameless seamstresses for the Empress dowager Maria Feodorovnas wonderfull black tulle-satin-and-lace dress in 1912. The dress was designed by the fashionable Brissac – couturier to the Imperial court and the grand ladies of Sct. Petersburg, and was exhibited at the 2019 easter exhibition, comemorating […]
Russian Icons and antiques
Great variety in artefacts coming up next week on web auction sale in Copenhagen, including another wonderful painting by Grandduchess Olga and several 18th century Russsian icons, including a richly decorated silver Oklad and Mother of God inlaid with pearls Link to auction
Grandduchess Olga as an artist
Grandduchess Olga Alexandrovna (1882 – 1960), the daughter of Emperor Alexander III and Empress Maria Feodorovna, was a younger sister to the last Romanov Emperor Nicholas II. As a child, she studied in the Imperial Palace at Gatchina under the guidance of the best artists of the empire, nameley Kirill Vikentievich Lemokh (Moscow, 1841 – […]
Grandduchess Olga painting for sale
Upcoming international Danish web auction in Copenhagen features yet another delicate and lovely oilpainting by Grandduchess Olga, to be sold on august 21st, valued at 10.000 Dkkr. and signed “Olga” Visit webauction
We are now on facebook
Our website is now finally on FACEBOOK. Go to our new facebook-site and follow the distinctive lives who became part of the great history In the shadow of the Romanov Dynasty on Facebook LINK