FANTASTIC IMPERIAL RUSSIAN PHOTOGRAPH GROUP, C. 1860-1915.

FANTASTIC IMPERIAL RUSSIAN PHOTOGRAPH GROUP, C. 1860-1915.

Comprising over 30 individual pieces, as well as the album which held these images. Includes eight vintage CDVs depicting Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsar Alexander II, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich, Empress Maria Alexandrovna, Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna, a CDV inscribed on verso Grand Duke Alexis in Egypt in 1864, and others as shown. Together with a great Mathew Brady cabinet card photo of Grand Duke Alexis taken during his 1871-1872 tour of the United States. A cabinet card photo of Tsar Alexander III in uniform, a cabinet card photo of Alexander III and his family with the Royal Danish family in Denmark, a large cabinet card photo of Alexander III, the Empress, and their five children, including Nicholas, photo by court photographer Georg Hansen, Copenhagen. A print of the gathering of European royalty surrounding Queen Victoria taken in Coburg in 1894, a cabinet card photo of Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig, as well as a very crisp and pristine photograph of Nicholas II by Hills & Saunders, circa 1893, on the occasion of the wedding of his cousin Prince George (later King George V), a cabinet card photo of Princess Alix von Hessen (future wife of Nicholas II), two scarce examples of pre-wedding photos of Alix taken at Tsarskoye Selo, a cabinet card photo of Nicholas and Alexandra with four of their children, a cabinet card photo of the Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich in a sailor outfit, verso with mark of court photographer A. Otsup, a cabinet card photo of Grand Duke Alexander Nikolaevich, husband of Grand Duchess Xenia, a cabinet card photo of the Duchess of Edinburgh dated 1874 by court photographer Bergamasco, a charming, crisp cabinet card photo of the infant Grand Duchess Xenia, also by Bergamasco, a cabinet card photo of Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, circa 1878, by court photographer Alexander Paseti, and two cabinet card photographs of court officials in elaborate uniforms with numerous medals and orders. As well as an ornate gilt-decorated leather-bound photo album containing a dozen other images not illustrated. A great collection.