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Premier of Russia: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9901E3D81531E233A...

Vladimir Nikolayevich Kokovtsov (1853–1943) Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nikolayevich_Kokovtsov

Richard Arthur Norton (1958-) and captainslack: Thanks for the additional information on Kokovtsov. We'll add more details to the source data and then reload the description to Flickr.

Russian Grand Duke. He visited NY in 1913. Killed in battle in 1915. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E05E0DF153BE233A...

No way! It was a rumor! He died in 1933. He fled Russia in 1920 before Bolsheviks entered Crimea. "He and his family, together with his mother-in-law, the Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark), were rescued from the Crimea by British battleship HMS Marlborough in the quagmire of the 1917 Revolution, and thus they survived" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Alexander_Mikhailovich_o...

"GRAND DUKE NOT DEAD.; Russian Headquarters Also Deny Turkish Official Reports of Victories" -- New York Times, January 13, 1915. The New York Times reported the above four days after they initially reported the article, dated January 9, 1915, linked by Cynthia Wenslow. This photograph appears to be dated April, 1913, and accordingly may have been "in the news" as a result of Michaelovitch's announced 1913 visit to New York.

See www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3220576482/ for another photo and information.

Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia (1866-1933) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Alexander_Mikhailovich_o...

In 1913, on his second visit to America (the first was in 1893), his Imperial Highness visited Philadelphia, Newport RI, and New York City. In New York, the Grand Duke stayed at the Ritz-Carlton hotel. One of several photos that Bain took there is dated September 6, 1913. After his departure for Russia, the New York Times (on October 5, 1913) ran a story about the unpretentious royal visitor, and included a story about a famous joke that Alex had played on the press in 1893: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9406EEDF1E3BE633A...

During his visit to Newport, Rhode Island in 1913, His Imperial Highness, The Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia (1866-1933), was struck by the beauty of American women. According to published reports, The Grand Duke "collected photographs of the women he met in Newport, especially at The Casino and Bailey's Beach."

The Grand Duke was particularity smitten by Miss Marie Tailer of New York City, who was visiting Newport at that time, and he was "anxious to obtain a photograph of her". He declared that Miss Tailer was "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World". [1]

This pronouncement was picked up by newspapers across the country (if not the world), and photos of Miss Tailer were published for some years afterwards -- always with the "Most Beautiful Girl in the World" moniker in the caption. [2]

Marie Tailer was engaged in 1914, and married in 1915, to Mr. S. Bryce Wing. A photo of her is included in the LOC Bain Collection on Flickr -- however IMNHO there are more flattering photos of her in The (San Francisco) Call and The (Georgia) Evening Ledger.
                        "Miss Marie Tailer (right) 1913"   from Bain / LOC
                             

 

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Orthodox Church Architecture, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Orthodoxie russe / Русское православие, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Beautiful! Here it is in 1997: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/olgasch/3297728859/in/set-72157613154452515/]

olga s: Lovely pic! Thanks for showing us this modern photo of the cathedral. /Anna B.

Awesome church! it's a cultural heritage. =)