AN IMPERIAL PHOTO ALBUM CONTAINING 81 PHOTOGRAPHS OF GRAND DUCHESS MARIE ALEXANDROVNA AND HER FAMILY

The album and twenty photographs,Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna (1853 – 1920), Duchess of Edinburgh

Thence by descent

Amongst the photographed in the album are the children of her husband’s sister, Alice Grand Duchess of Hesse (1843-1878), the sisters Princess Dagmar and Princess Alexandra of Denmark, the former later Empress of Russia, the latter Queen of England, Grand Duchess Marie, Duchess zu Mecklemburg (1854-1920) and her husband Vladimir Alexandrovich, rare photographs of Emperor Nicolas II (1868-1918) as a young boy with his brother Grand Duke Georg (1871-1899), unusual photographs of the royal sitters in historic and theatre costumes, by the ateliers F. Backofen, L. Suscipj, Ferretti, Behncke, Bergamasco St. Petersburg, Mondel

The twenty photographs comprising: 1.Two photographs of Emperor Alexander II (1818-1881) and two of his wife Empress Marie Alexandrovna(1824-1888), Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt, two by atelier Levitzky ca.1875 2. Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich (1860-1919) together with his wife Princess Alexandra of Greece (1870- 1891) and another of him signed and dated 1890 (damaged), ateliers Uhlenhuth and Bergamasco respectively 3. A rare photograph of Emperor Nicolas II (1868-1918) and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt(1872- 1918), seated in a garden 1894, another of the Imperial couple standing outside the Schlols Rosenau, Uhlenhuth Coburg 4. Elisabeth (Ella) Grand Duchess of Russia, Princess of Hesse­-Darmstadt (1864-1918); signed and inscribed "Thanking you for the happy days at Clarence House 1897", atelier Assikitoffs Moscow and another of her by the same atelier showing her in the year of her marriage 1884 standing next to a flower table, signed and dated in red ink, together with a printed postcard of Emperor Alexander II written by the Grand Duchess to her sister-in-law Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna, Duchess of Edinburgh (1853-1920): "God bless your X-mas & New Year my dearest Marie; 5. Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna (1853-1920) in elaborate ball gown and beewelled, atelier Uhlenuhth 1898 another of her ca. 1873 atelier Bergamasco, another of her holding her eldest child Prince Alfred ca. 1875 by the same atelier, another of the Duchess seated at a table 6. Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt (1872-1918), signed and dated 1900, atelier Torodetzki, Zarskoie Zelo 7. Empress Marie Feodorovna and her sister Queen Alexandra of England, standing inside a winter garden at their Danish home Hidovre both holding a spaniel ca. 1900 8. Grand Duchess Marie, Duchess zu Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1853-1920), in court robe and bejeweled, atelier Bergamasco ca. 1890 9. Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna (1853-1920) with her husband Alfred,

Duke of Edinburgh (1844-1900) and their children Alfred (1874-18991, Marie (born 1875), Victoria Milita (born 1876), Alexandra (born 1878) and Beatrice (born 1884) ca. 1896 together with a larger photograph of the Grand Duchess Marie and family members, both atelier Uhlenhuth Coburg 10. The two Danish Princesses, Dagmar (1874-1928), later Empress of Russia and Alexandra, later Queen of England (1844-1925), atelier Lewis Michelsen Belfort