Personal Travel Album Made by the Dowager Empress Maria Feoderovna Showing Events in the Daily Life


Personal Travel Album Made by the Dowager Empress Maria Feoderovna Showing Events in the Daily Life of the Russian Imperial Family, 1916, Gelatin silver prints; photomechanical prints, x x (11 5/8 x 16 5/8 x 2 1/4in.) each, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna (Russian, born Denmark, Copenhagen 1847–1928 Copenhagen), This is one of two unique albums, bound in antelope leather, assembled by the dowager empress Maria Feodorovna, mother of Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia. The dowager empress took up photography with her sister, Queen Alexandra of England, in the late 1880s, just after the invention of the hand-held Kodak camera


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Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
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