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Photo, Print, Drawing Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna, Wife of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich.

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Title

  • Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna, Wife of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich.

Summary

  • Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna (1830-1911) was born Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg. Her name was Russianized on her conversion to Russian Orthodoxy and marriage to Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich (1827--92), son of Emperor Nicholas I, in 1848. This full-length portrait photograph, taken when she was about 30-35 years old, shows her facing left, warmly dressed, holding an umbrella, and standing by a panel of drapery. The image is from the Personal Album of Alexander II (1860-1870), which is preserved in the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents, Moscow. Alexandra and Konstantin had six children, but after 20 years of marriage, Konstantin formed a long-running liaison with a ballet dancer called Anna Vasilyevna Kuznetsova with whom he had more children. A severe stroke left Konstantin badly disabled for his last several years of life. Alexandra herself suffered a stroke eight years before she died and lived out her days at the Marble Palace in Saint Petersburg.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1860 to 1865]

Headings

  • -  Russian Federation
  • -  1860 to 1865
  • -  Aleksandra Īosifovna, Grand Duchess of Russia, 1830-1911
  • -  Nobility
  • -  Portrait photographs
  • -  Portraits
  • -  Romanov, House of
  • -  Royal family

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 photograph : black-and-white.
  • -  Original resource at: Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Source Collection

  • Personal Album of Alexander II (1860-1870)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021669208

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna, Wife of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich. Russian Federation, 1860. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1865] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669208/.

APA citation style:

(1860) Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna, Wife of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich. Russian Federation, 1860. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1865] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669208/.

MLA citation style:

Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna, Wife of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1865] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021669208/>.