Vanguard News Network
VNN Media
VNN Digital Library
VNN Reader Mail
VNN Broadcasts

Old May 31st, 2017 #21
Alex Him
Senior Member
 
Alex Him's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 6,834
Blog Entries: 219
Post

All of the photos was taken from the Russian State Film and Photo Archive - http://rgakfd.ru/





Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 200
Photographer: Grillet.
Date: 1859-1870
Location: Italy, Naples.
Portrait of an unknown young man.






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 201
Photographer: Backofen.
Date: 1862-1865
Location: Germany, Darmstadt.
The wife of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Friedrich Franz II.
Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine.


https://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=...6&postcount=15






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 202
Photographer: Grillet.
Date: 1859-1870
Location: Italy, Naples.
Portrait of an unknown young man.






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 203
Photographer: Backofen.
Date: 1865-1870
Location: Germany, Darmstadt.
Portrait of the brother of Empress Maria Alexandrovna. Prince [Karl] of Hesse.

https://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=2141444&postcount=3






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 204
Photographer: Backofen.
Date: 1865-1870
Location: Germany, Darmstadt.
Portrait of the brother of Empress Maria Alexandrovna. Prince Alexander of Hesse.

https://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=2141541&postcount=6






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 205
Photographer: Wolff.
Date: 1859-1866
Location: England.
Portrait of an unknown girl.






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 206
Photographer: Робиллард.
Date: 1860-1863
Location: Russia, Saint-Petersburg.
Portrait of the son of Emperor Alexander II. Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich.

https://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=2141316&postcount=2






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 207
Photographer: Wolff.
Date: 1863
Location: England.
Portrait of an unknown girl.






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 208
Photographer: Robillard.
Date: 1861-1864
Location: Russia, Saint-Petersburg.
Portrait of the daughter of Emperor Alexander II. Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna.
She is photographed in profile.


https://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=2141290&postcount=1






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 209
Photographer: Wolff.
Date: 1861-1865
Location: England.
Portrait of an unknown girl.


 
Old August 24th, 2017 #22
Alex Him
Senior Member
 
Alex Him's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 6,834
Blog Entries: 219
Post

All of the photos was taken from the Russian State Film and Photo Archive - http://rgakfd.ru/





Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 210
Photographer: Робиллард.
Date: 1865-1867
Location: Russia, Saint-Petersburg.
Duke Nicholas Maximilianovich of Leuchtenberg.

"Duke Nicholas Maximilianovich of Leuchtenberg (1843-1891).

He was the third child and the eldest son in the family of the Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna and the Duke of Maximilian Leuchtenberg.

From birth, he was listed in the Life Guards Preobrazhensky and the Life Guards Hussar Regiments. In July 1850 he was promoted to ensign, in 1852 appointed chief of the Kiev Hussar Regiment, in 1856 enlisted in the Life Guards 4th Battalion of the Imperial Surname Battalion.

In 1859 he entered the active military service. From 1863 he was an aide-de-camp, and then from 1865, Major-General of the Emperor's Suite. With the outbreak of the Russo-Turkish war, the duke, who lived abroad, returned to Russia and was appointed commander of the hussar brigade in the detachment of Adjutant General Gurko, who made the crossing across the Balkans. From June to July 1877, he commanded the cavalry of the advanced Western Detachment of the Danube Army. He Distinguished himself in the capture of Kazanluk and in the battle of Eski-Zagroi. In 1877 he received the rank of Lieutenant-General. Since 1890, he was an adjutant-general and a cavalry general.

In 1865-1891 he was president of the Mineralogical association. He was a member of the Mining Council and the Scientific Committee of the Ministry of State Property. The Duke of Leuchtenberg initiated a detailed geological study of Russia and the creation of a new geological map of the country. In 1866-1867 he, together with professors Koshkarov and Zinin, participated in two scientific expeditions in the central provinces of Russia and the Urals.

He was an honorary member of the Imperial Russian Technical Society, Kiev University of St. Vladimir, a member of the Council and the Scientific Committee of the Corps of Mining Engineers.

He founded Nikolayev-Maximilianov Medal and a scholarship, which was annually awarded to the authors of the best works on mineralogy, geology and paleontology, not only in Russia, but also abroad.

In 1868, Nikolai Maximilianovich entered into a morganatic marriage with Nadezhda Sergeevna Annenkova, in the first marriage - Akinfova (1840-1891), which caused the Emperor's displeasure. The Duke of Leuchtenberg was forced to leave Russia.

Abroad, he lived in a serious mental state and ended his life as a result of the use of morphine.

His children were the Duke of Nicholas (1868-1928) and
Duke George (1872-1929)."

The text was translated from Russian Wikipedia.






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 211
Photographer: Robillard.
Date: 1863-1865
Location: Russia, Saint-Petersburg.
Portrait of the granddaughter of Emperor Nicholas I. Maria Maksimilianovna in marriage Duchess of Baden, née Duchess of Leuchtenberg.

https://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=2142114&postcount=7






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 212
Photographer: Лоренс Альфред.
Date: 1860-1862
Location: Russia, Saint-Petersburg.
The son of Emperor Alexander II. Grand Duke Alexander in military uniform.

https://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=2141290&postcount=1






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 213
Photographer: Robillard.
Date: 1863
Location: Russia, Saint-Petersburg.
Portrait of the granddaughter of Emperor Nicholas I. Maria Maksimilianovna in marriage Duchess of Baden, née Duchess of Leuchtenberg.






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 214
Photographer: Robillard.
Date: 1863
Location: Russia, Saint-Petersburg.
Prince Louis William Augustus of Baden with his wife Duchess Maria Maksimilianovna of Baden.

"Prince Louis William Augustus of Baden (1829-1897) - (German: Ludwig Wilhelm August Prinz von Baden) was a Prussian general and politician. He was the father of Prince Maximilian of Baden, the last Minister President of the Kingdom of Prussia and last Chancellor of the German Empire. Wilhelm was a Prince of Baden, and a member of the House of Zähringen.

Wilhelm was born in Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden, on 18 December 1829 as the fifth child and third surviving son of Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, and his wife Princess Sophie of Sweden. Through his father, Wilhelm was a grandson of Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden and his wife Baroness Louise Caroline Geyer of Geyersberg and through his mother, a grandson of Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden and his wife Frederica of Baden.

Wilhelm was a brother of Alexandrine, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Louis II, Grand Duke of Baden, Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden, Prince Charles of Baden, Marie, Princess Ernest of Leiningen, and Grand Duchess Olga Feodorovna of Russia.

During his brief service in the Baden Federal Contingent (German: Baden Bundescontingente), Wilhelm attained the rank of Lieutenant in 1847 and First Lieutenant in 1849. Beginning between 1849 and 1850, he served as a First Lieutenant in the 1st Foot Guards (German: 1. Garde-Regiment zu Fuß) infantry regiment of the Royal Prussian Army. Wilhelm received his formal education in the Prussian Army. From 1856, Wilhelm served as Major of the Guard Artillery (German: Gardeartillerie) and served as the last Major General and Commander of the Guards Artillery Brigade (German: Gardeartilleriebrigade). Wilhelm retired from Prussian military service in 1863 with the rank of Lieutenant General, shortly before his marriage to Princess Maria of Leuchtenberg.

In 1866, during the Austro-Prussian War between the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Empire, Wilhelm assumed command of the Baden Division of the 8th Federal Corps (German: 8. Bundeskorps) siding with the Austrian-led German Confederation. The dissolution of the 8th Federal Corps began on 30 July 1866 when Wilhelm sent a flag of truce along with a letter to the Prussian headquarters at Marktheidenfeld. The letter stated that Wilhelm's father Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, had entered into direct negotiations with Wilhelm I of Prussia and that King Wilhelm I granted the Baden troops permission to return to their homes.

Immediately following the Austro-Prussian War, Wilhelm reformed the army of Baden based upon the Prussian system. Wilhelm and Prince August of Württemberg were the two south German princes who were foremost in securing the union of the Northern and Southern German states. On 22 September 1868, Wilhelm announced his resignation from the command of the troops of the Grand Duchy of Baden and was replaced by General Beza.

In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, Wilhelm commanded the 1st Baden Brigade in the Werderschen Korps. On 30 October 1870, Wilhelm and General Gustav Friedrich von Beyer assailed Dijon. The French had transported 10,000 men by rail and the citizens of Dijon, including women, joined in the defense of the city against the Germans. The resistance was not easily subdued and the Germans suffered heavy losses, however according to historian Gustave Louis Maurice Strauss, "[Wilhelm] carried the heights of St. Apollinari in gallant style and occupied the suburbs from which the Germans ultimately forced their way into the city where fierce fights from barricade to barricade from house to house lasted till midnight." Dijon was occupied by 24,000 Prussians on 18 January 1870, but was reoccupied by the French after a severe battle, and subsequently retaken by the Prussians on 19 January, during which Wilhelm was shot in his cheek at Nuits-Saint-Georges.

In 1895, Kaiser Wilhelm II promoted him à la suite to the Grenadier Regiment (German: Leibgrenadierregimentes) in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Nuits-Saint-Georges. At the same time, Wilhelm II made him knight of the Order of Pour le Mérite, the Kingdom of Prussia's highest military order.

Wilhelm's final military rank was General of the Infantry.

From a young age, Wilhelm held a seat in the First Chamber of the Diet of the Grand Duchy of Baden. From 1871 to 1873, Wilhelm was a representative of Baden in the Reichstag of the German Empire in which he was a member of the German Imperial Party (German: Deutsche Reichspartei) (also known as the Free Conservative Party).

Wilhelm and Maria had two children:

Princess Marie of Baden (1865–1939), later Duchess of Anhalt as the wife of Friedrich II, Duke of Anhalt (no issue).
Prince Maximilian of Baden (1867–1929)."

The text was taken from Wikipedia.






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 215
Photographer: Robillard.
Date: 1863
Location: Russia, Saint-Petersburg.
Portrait of the granddaughter of Emperor Nicholas I. Maria Maksimilianovna in marriage Duchess of Baden, née Duchess of Leuchtenberg.






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 216
Photographer: Robillard.
Date: 1863
Location: Russia, Saint-Petersburg.
Prince Louis William Augustus of Baden.






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 217
Photographer: (?)
Date: 1862-1863
Location: (?)
The sons of Emperor Alexander II.
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich (left) - https://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=...6&postcount=13
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich (right) - https://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=2141290&postcount=1







Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 218
Photographer: Robillard.
Date: [1863]
Location: Russia, Saint-Petersburg.
The son of Emperor Alexander II. Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich.






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 219
Photographer: (?)
Date: 1862-1863
Location: (?)
Children of Emperor Alexander II.
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna - https://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=2141290&postcount=1
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich with dolls in his hands.



__________________
Where should they dig the Very Deep Pit?
Piglet said that the best place would be somewhere where a Heffalump was, just before he fell into it, only about a foot farther on.
(c) Alan Alexander Miln
 
Old August 24th, 2017 #23
Alex Him
Senior Member
 
Alex Him's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 6,834
Blog Entries: 219
Post

All of the photos was taken from the Russian State Film and Photo Archive - http://rgakfd.ru/





Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 220
Photographer: (?)
Date: 1862-1863
Location: (?)
The son of Emperor Alexander II. Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich.

[In rgakfd.ru it is written that this was Paul Alexandrovich, but this is an obvious mistake.]

https://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=2141290&postcount=1






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 221
Photographer: (?)
Date: 1862-1863
Location: (?)
The sons of Emperor Alexander II.
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich (left) - https://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=...6&postcount=13
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich (right).







Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 222
Photographer: Robillard.
Date: 1863-1865
Location: Russia, Saint-Petersburg.
The daughter of Emperor Alexander II. Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna.

http://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=2141290&postcount=1






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 223
Photographer: Александровский.
Date: [1863]
Location: Russia, Saint-Petersburg.
Portrait of Emperor Alexander II in an overcoat with a dog at his feet.

http://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=2141290&postcount=1






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 224
Photographer: Александровский.
Date: [1863]
Location: Russia, Saint-Petersburg.
Portrait of Emperor Alexander II in an overcoat with a dog at his feet.






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 225
Photographer: Александровский.
Date: [1861-1865]
Location: Russia, Saint-Petersburg.
Portrait of Emperor Alexander II in military uniform on horseback.






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 226
Photographer: Александровский.
Date: [1863]
Location: Russia, Saint-Petersburg.
Portrait of Emperor Alexander II in military uniform with a dog at his feet.






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 227
Photographer: Александровский.
Date: [1863]
Location: Russia, Saint-Petersburg.
Portrait of Emperor Alexander II in military uniform with a dog at his feet.






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 228
Photographer: Александровский.
Date: [1863]
Location: Russia, Saint-Petersburg.
Portrait of Emperor Alexander II in an overcoat with a dog at his feet.






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 229
Photographer: Бейер Карл.
Date: 1862-1863
Location: Poland, Warsaw.
Portrait of the wife of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich. Grand Duchess Alexandra losifovna - https://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=2141444&postcount=3
with her son [Vyacheslav] in her arms.


"Grand Duke Vyacheslav Constantinovich of Russia, (1862–1879), was a Romanov grand duke and the youngest son of Grand Duke Constantine Nicholaevich of Russia and his wife Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna. The English form of his first name is Wenceslas.

Vyacheslav, who was nicknamed "Slava," was the baby of the family and a family favorite. He was tall and used to joke that, when he is dead, his coffin would be stuck in a doorway of the Marble Palace. It really happened so when he died. At age sixteen, he complained suddenly of a splitting headache and violent illness. He lay with a Russian Orthodox icon on his pillow as his family surrounded him, urging him to breathe. He died within a week of brain inflammation. His mother later reported that she had seen the ghost of a white lady in the art gallery at Pavlovsk on the day before Vyacheslav became ill. She took the apparition as a portent of death. His brother Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia later recalled, as he walked in Vyacheslav's funeral procession, how much Vyacheslav enjoyed drawing funeral processions in great detail."

The text was taken from Wikipedia.


__________________
Where should they dig the Very Deep Pit?
Piglet said that the best place would be somewhere where a Heffalump was, just before he fell into it, only about a foot farther on.
(c) Alan Alexander Miln

Last edited by Alex Him; August 25th, 2017 at 02:10 AM.
 
Old August 24th, 2017 #24
Alex Him
Senior Member
 
Alex Him's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 6,834
Blog Entries: 219
Post

All of the photos was taken from the Russian State Film and Photo Archive - http://rgakfd.ru/





Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 230
Photographer: Бейер Карл.
Date: 1862-1863
Location: Poland, Warsaw.
Portrait of the wife of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich. Grand Duchess Alexandra losifovna - https://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=2141444&postcount=3
with her son [Vyacheslav] in her arms - https://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=...9&postcount=23







Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 231
Photographer: Backofen.
Date: 1865-1870
Location: Germany, Darmstadt.
Portrait of the brother of Empress Maria Alexandrovna. Prince Alexander of Hesse.

https://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=2141541&postcount=6






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 232
Photographer: Backofen.
Date: 1865-1870
Location: Germany, Darmstadt.
Portrait of the brother of Empress Maria Alexandrovna. Prince Alexander of Hesse in military uniform.






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 233
Photographer: Деньер.
Date: 1862-1865
Location: Russia, Saint-Petersburg.
Portrait of the wife of Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolayevich. Grand Duchess Olga Feodorovna with a book in her hands.

http://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=2141472&postcount=4






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 234
Photographer: Деньер.
Date: 1862-1865
Location: Russia, Saint-Petersburg.
Portrait of the wife of Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolayevich. Grand Duchess Olga Feodorovna with a book in her hands.






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 235
Photographer: Petitschinsky.
Date: 1863
Location: Russia, the Crimea.
Portrait of Emperor Alexander II in military uniform.

http://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=2141290&postcount=1






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 236 the photo is empty.



Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 237
Photographer: Petitschinsky.
Date: 1863
Location: Russia, the Crimea.
The daughter of Emperor Alexander II. Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna.

http://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=2141290&postcount=1






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 238
Photographer: Petitschinsky.
Date: 1863
Location: Russia, the Crimea.
The son of Emperor Alexander II. Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich.

https://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=...6&postcount=13






Сall number: Ал-323 сн. 239
Photographer: Petitschinsky.
Date: 1863
Location: Russia, the Crimea.
The son of Emperor Alexander II. Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich.

https://vnnforum.com/showpost.php?p=2141290&postcount=1


__________________
Where should they dig the Very Deep Pit?
Piglet said that the best place would be somewhere where a Heffalump was, just before he fell into it, only about a foot farther on.
(c) Alan Alexander Miln

Last edited by Alex Him; August 25th, 2017 at 02:14 AM.
 
Reply

Share


Thread
Display Modes


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 11:12 AM.
Page generated in 0.22088 seconds.