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Photo, Print, Drawing Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich, Son of Emperor Nicholas I.

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Title

  • Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich, Son of Emperor Nicholas I.

Summary

  • This black-and-white photograph portrait of Konstantin Nikolaevich, Grand Duke of Russia (1827--92), taken in about 1862, is from the Personal Album of Alexander II (1860-1870), which is preserved in the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents, Moscow. It shows the grand duke sitting, looking to his left, dressed in a heavy three-piece suit. Konstantin was the second son of Emperor Nicholas I (1796--1855) and Empress Alexandra (1798--1860). Trained in naval sciences, languages, mathematics, and navigation by Count Fedor Petrovich Litke (1797--1882), a navigator, geographer, and Arctic explorer, Konstantin was appointed to the State Council in 1850. In 1853 he was promoted to admiral and made head of the naval department. In that capacity he presided over the disastrous Russian naval operations in the Crimean War, after which he oversaw the modernization of the navy, its education system, and its bureaucracy. Konstantin was involved in the emancipation of the serfs in Russia in 1861. From 1862 to 1864, he served as viceroy of Poland, where he survived an assassination attempt on his second day in office. Back in Saint Petersburg, he chaired the State Council for 16 years. His wife was born Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg; in 1848 upon her conversion to Russian Orthodoxy and marriage to Konstantin, she became Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna.

Names

  • Blanc, Numa, 1849-1922 Photographer.

Created / Published

  • Paris : [publisher not identified], [1860 to 1870]

Headings

  • -  Russian Federation
  • -  1860 to 1870
  • -  Konstantin Nikolaevich, Grand Duke of Russia, 1827-1892
  • -  Nobility
  • -  Politics and government
  • -  Portrait photographs
  • -  Portraits
  • -  Romanov, House of
  • -  Royal family

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "From the album: Personal Album of Alexander II (1860-1870)"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  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

  • 2021669207

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Blanc, Numa, Photographer. Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich, Son of Emperor Nicholas I. Russian Federation, 1860. [Paris: Publisher Not Identified, to 1870] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669207/.

APA citation style:

Blanc, N. (1860) Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich, Son of Emperor Nicholas I. Russian Federation, 1860. [Paris: Publisher Not Identified, to 1870] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669207/.

MLA citation style:

Blanc, Numa, Photographer. Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich, Son of Emperor Nicholas I. [Paris: Publisher Not Identified, to 1870] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021669207/>.