#charlotte of prussia
1840-1841 Christina Robertson - Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia)
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“I feel like I’m entering the Fatherland,” Charlotte told the mourners as her carriage crossed the Russian border. The Cossack convoy that met her burst out “Hurrah!”, the princess told them in Russian: “Thank you, guys.” Then she turned to the Cossack colonel: “Please order them to shout again, I like it…” She sought to speak Russian with those courtiers who did not know foreign languages. However, despite the fact that her teacher was the poet Vasily Zhukovsky, Charlotte did not learn Russian until the end of her life.
Busts of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna
1840-1841 Christina Robertson - Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia)
(State Hermitage Museum)
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Photograph of Princesses Elisabeth and Victoria with their maternal cousins, Princesses Margaret, Viktoria and Sophia of Prussia and Charlotte, Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen, early 1880s.
