Tag: Christina Robertson
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Christina Robertson’s Princess Zinaida Nikolayevna Yusupova, with Footnotes. #133
Princess Zinaida Nikolayevna Yusupova (2 September 1861 – 24 November 1939) was an Imperial Russian noblewoman, the only heiress of Russia’s largest private fortune of her time. Famed for her beauty and the lavishness of her hospitality, she was a leading figure in pre-Revolutionary Russian society. In 1882, she married Count Felix Felixovich Sumarokov-Elston, who served…
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14 Works, Today, July 4th, is the Romanovs’ day, their story in icons #185
The canonization of the Romanovs was the elevation to sainthood of the last Imperial Family of Russia — Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei, by the Russian Orthodox Church. The family was killed by the Bolsheviks on 17 July 1918… Please follow link for full post