MARIA FEODOROVNA (Russian Empress, 1847-1928, wife of Tsar Alexander III, mother of Nicholas II)

Charming carte de visite photo by George Hansen signed on the verso "Dagmar 1864", showing her full length seated, wearing mourning dress, with a book on her lap, 4" x 2½", no place, (Copenhagen), no date,

Signed whilst in mourning for her first fiancee Nicholas, Tsarevitch of Russia who died of TB. A very unusual portrait of the young Princess in mourning. Both she and her parents felt that the Russian throne had slipped from their fingers. Luckily a year later his brother Alexander proposed and Dagmar became the shining star of Imperial Russia.

Item Date:  1866

Stock No:  24065      £875

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