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Alexandra Feodorovna (Russian: Императрица Александра Фёдоровна, Imperatritsa Aleksandra Fyodorovna) (6 June 1872 – 17 July 1918), was Empress consort of Russia as the spouse of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of the Russian Empire. Born as Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, was granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. Upon being received into the Russian Orthodox Church, she was given the name Alexandra Feodorovna and in 2000 she was canonized as Saint Alexandra the Passion Bearer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Feodorovna

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She clearly had an amazing array of jewelry. See, e.g., www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/aexpenses.html

It looks as though the tiara survived and is in the first photo in this blog post: maries-jewels-royals.blogspot.ca/2014/02/russian-imperial... The tiara was apparently made by Bolin, a court jeweler.

The photo at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Feodorovna_%28Alix_of_Hes... is in the same dress and jewels. That is another Bain photo. Someone other than LoC has dated it 1908 and identified the photographer as Boasson and Eggler St. Petersburg Nevsky 24. That date is found on a copy signed by the empress seen at www.romanovrussia.com/Signature_Autograph_Photograph_Empr... Her husband abdicated in March 1917. From the Wikipedia article: "On 12 March soldiers sent to suppress the rioting crowds mutinied and joined the rebellion, thus providing the spark to ignite the February Revolution (like the later October Revolution of November 1917, the Russian Revolutions of 1917 get their names due to the Old Style calendar). Soldiers and workers set up the "Petrograd Soviet" of 2,500 elected deputies while the Duma declared a Provisional Government on 13 March. Alexander Kerensky was a key player in the new regime. The Duma informed the tsar that day that he must abdicate. In an effort to put an end to the uprising in the capital, Nicholas tried to get to St Petersburg by train from army headquarters at Mogiliev. The route was blocked so he tried another way. His train was stopped at Pskov where, after receiving advice from his generals, he first abdicated the throne for himself and later, on seeking medical advice, for himself and his son the tsarevich Alexei. Alexandra was now in a perilous position as the wife of the deposed tsar, hated by the Russian people. Nicholas finally was allowed to return to the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo where he was placed under arrest with his family. Despite the fact he was a first cousin of both Nicholas and Alexandra, George V refused to allow them to evacuate to the United Kingdom, as he was alarmed by their unpopularity in his country and the potential repercussions to his own throne."

Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)

The boy is Alexei Nikolaevich, fifth child and first son of Czar Nicholas II. He had hemophilia and was treated for it by Rasputin.

Czarewitsch is typically spelled Czarevitch in English

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Feodorovna_(Alix_of_Hesse) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Nikolaevich,_Tsarevich_of_Ru...

царина и царевич

"Their Imperial Majesties and Noble Children"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Feodorovna en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia

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Thanks to all of you for your research. Wonder if these images of the royal family were taken by Count Tamburini? Thanks for connecting the images, Art Siegel.