Royalty
MARIA FEODOROVNA
(Russian Empress, 1847-1928, wife of Tsar Alexander III, mother of Nicholas II)
Very rare signed postcard photo
showing the tragic dowager Empress in exile, seated in her sitting room at Hvidore, with an autograph note signed on the verso, with very best wishes Marie, Hvidore, 5½ x 3½, Denmark, November
Item Date: 1924
Background
This was the last photograph that was released of the Dowager Empress due to the fact that her sister, the Dowager Queen Alexandra of England died the following year and Maria went into a decline.
Stock No. 32302