tsarevitch

Thanks for help with spellings and also spotting the photographer's name.

Probably this battleship.

We can still argue over the spelling. According to the OED it's either Tsarevich (no T in the middle) or Tsarewitch (W with a T).

Except that the Russian spelling is apparently Цесаревич, which transliterates more closely as Tsesarevich.

Never mind the spelling, it's a great old photograph, thank you for sharing.

A nice 'close in' shot, very interesting picture of the old ship, thank you for sharing.

The Tsesarevich (Цесаревич) was a battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy, built in France by Compagnie des Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée à la Seine. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_battleship_Tsesarevich

Thanks for letting us know!

Nicholas II [Russian: Николай II, Николай Александрович Романов, Nikolai II, Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov (18 May 1868 – 17 July 1918)] the last Tsar of the Russian Empire with his only son Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич) (12 August 1904 – 17 July 1918).

If this picture was from March, 1917, this was probably taken at what was the Russian Army's headquarters in Mogilev, in present-day Belarus, where the Tsar spent long periods as commander-in-chief. He went there on March 7, 1917, during violent riots in St. Petersburg. He was forced to abdicate the throne on March 15, 1917.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_Revolution#Tsar.27s_return...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_II
ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Nikolaevich,_Tsarevich_of_Ru...

Czarewitch (on the negative here, written Czarewitsch) is an older variant transliteration of Царе́вич, now more commonly written in English as Tsarevitch, meaning any male son of the Tsar.

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