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Photo, Print, Drawing Emperor Alexander II with the Children: Sergei and Maria.

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Title

  • Emperor Alexander II with the Children: Sergei and Maria.

Summary

  • This photograph, taken in 1860 or 1861, shows Tsar Alexander II (1818-81, ruled 1855-81), with two of his eight children: Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna (born 1853) and Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich (born 1857). Alexander is seated in a chair, three-quarters to his left, wearing a military uniform. The grand duchess is leaning on her father's right knee, facing forward; the grand duke is sitting on his father's left leg. Alexander was most respected for his emancipation of the serfs in 1861, and his domestic reforms included reorganizing the judicial system, introducing limited local self-government, and support of universities. He was assassinated by revolutionaries in Saint Petersburg in 1881. Maria married Prince Alfred, duke of Edinburgh, the second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who also later became duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. She died in Zurich in 1920. Sergei, who was an influential figure during the reigns of his brother Tsar Alexander III and his nephew Tsar Nicholas II, was governor-general of Moscow for 14 years before his death at the hands of an assassin in Moscow in 1905. The photograph is preserved in the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1860 to 1861]

Headings

  • -  Russian Federation--Saint Petersburg--Saint Petersburg
  • -  1860 to 1861
  • -  Alexander II, Emperor of Russia, 1818-1881
  • -  Children
  • -  Clothing and dress
  • -  Group portraits
  • -  Kings and rulers
  • -  Portrait photographs
  • -  Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Marie Alexandrovna, Duchess of, 1853-1920
  • -  Sergeĭ Aleksandrovich, Grand Duke of Russia, 1857-1905

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 black and white photograph : projection printing from a duplicate.
  • -  Original resource at: Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

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  • 1 online resource.

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021669108

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Chicago citation style:

Emperor Alexander II with the Children: Sergei and Maria. Saint Petersburg Russian Federation, 1860. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1861] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669108/.

APA citation style:

(1860) Emperor Alexander II with the Children: Sergei and Maria. Saint Petersburg Russian Federation, 1860. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1861] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669108/.

MLA citation style:

Emperor Alexander II with the Children: Sergei and Maria. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, to 1861] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021669108/>.