Royalty
THE YOUNG EMPRESS BEFORE HER MARRIAGE
MARIA FEODOROVNA
(Russian Empress, 1847-1928, wife of Tsar Alexander III, mother of Nicholas II)
Delightful carte de visite photo by J. Petersen of Copenhagen, signed underneath in her Danish name Dagmar,
showing the 17 year old Princess full length seated, wearing a white dress, holding her dog on her lap, 4 x 2½, no place, (Copenhagen), no date, circa
Item Date: 1865
£1,275
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Background
In 1864 Dagmar was engaged to the elder brother of Alexander III but her fiancee Nicholas, Tsarevitch of Russia died of TB. 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.
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