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Watch the reconstructed rooms of the Alexander Palace in this beautiful video
Catherine the Great (2019): Official Trailer | HBO
“Oscar-winner Helen Mirren will lead miniseries Catherine the Great as the tumultuous monarch and politician who ruled the Russian empire and transformed its place in the world in the 18th century. The four-part historical drama will follow the end of Catherine’s reign and her affair with Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin that helped shape the future of Russian politics. Catherine the Great premieres October 21 at 10PM on HBO.”
Grigori Rasputin with his “ladies” at the ball in the new trailer for The King’s Man (2020)
Source:Official Teaser Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX
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One of the last photos of Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna (spouse of Alexander III, mother of Nicholas II) [1924] The photo was taken close to the Russian Orthodox Church of Alexander Nevsky in Copenhagen, Denmark. Assisting her is Cossack Timophey Yaschik. Yaschik was the Dowager Empress’s bodyguard and stayed with her from 1912 until her death in 1928. [source]
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so… how many people saw the scene of the execution of the family of Nicholas II and an alternative story of Anastasia in the last episode of American horror story?
season 8, episode 9 if someone needs
![Nicholas II with family, staff and officers, c. 1905. [original source]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/a55b2dbbf9042bfe6ea49878cc2bb4ce/tumblr_pfkqryAFLB1skwqjto2_640.jpg "Nicholas II with family, staff and officers, c. 1905. [original source]")
![Nicholas II with family, staff and officers, c. 1905. [original source]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/122c225a38644323c7c2524869af6a18/tumblr_pfkqryAFLB1skwqjto3_640.jpg "Nicholas II with family, staff and officers, c. 1905. [original source]")
The four daughters of the last Tsar, though sharing some of the family resemblance, all took after different predecessors when it came to their looks.
- Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, the eldest of the four, was a perfect mix of her parents.
- Grand Duchess Tatiana favoured her Hessian relatives, most notably her great-grandmother Empress Maria Alexandrovna and her aunt Grand Duchess Elizaveta Fyodorovna.
- Grand Duchess Maria bore unmistakable resemblance to her paternal grandparents, Emperor Alexander III and Empress Maria Fyodorovna.
- Grand Duchess Anastasia was a less beautiful version of her own mother, resembling in that aspect her aunt Princess Irene of Prussia.
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Russian imperial coronations, from Catherine the Great to Nicholas II.
Princess Irina Paley, daughter of Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich of Russia.
I have long believed that this portrait by K.F. Sohn, identified by the Hermitage Museum as Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russia, is in fact Maria’s younger sister, Grand Duchess Elizaveta Mikhailovna, Duchess of Nassau, but seeing it displayed so prominently in a palace belonging to the grand ducal family of Luxembourg (who are descendants of Elizaveta’s widower, Adolphe, Duke of Nassau) has convinced me that my hunch was correct. What do you all think?
Pavlovsk Palace, ca. 1847.
Alexandra Feodorovna, the last Russian empress, based on a portrait by Koppay.
