The Nicholas and Alexandra Picture Thread

[AnastasiaEvidence]

I know, Alix has a very tragic look on her face. I think after her mother, Alice and sister May died Alix felt quite shy and sad. Especially, in the forth photo. It seems like she somehow knew that later her life would be in danger or something bad was going to happen. That's a feeling when someone in your family was going to die next. This reminds me of Princess Kaiulani of Hawaii when her mother, family and close friends died I notice she too also had a sad look in her photos; just like Alix.She was very shy, reserved and serious just like Alix was!

 

[CarolinaLandgrave]

I am sure that tragedy will do that to you - losing one's mother (esp as a young person) alone would do that.
Or like you said, maybe she somehow new that her later life would be so full of sorrow.

 

[AnastasiaEvidence]

Yes, it especially would make me feel truely upset. Once a love one dies, you began to have a feeling that your children, husband, and cousins. That's how Alix felt towards Alexei, especially since he had the hemophilia disease...it's very terrible that your son could bleed to death whenever he fell or when he had a bruise. There was no cure for the disease, and not much was known about it. Even if Alexei didn't have hemophilia Alix would have been just as worried about her son, and daughters. She was over protective and worried about their safety, just like any other mother does.

 

[FabianJ]

I would recommend Adobe photoshop Elements 7, Adobe Photoshop cs3, and Paint shop pro 9. Those are very great colouring programs.

I have all those of photoshop programs and recolored, I try to coloring some photos and I did not have good results. Ekaterina, very good.

 

[AnastasiaEvidence]

I have all those of photoshop programs and recolored, I try to coloring some photos and I did not have good results. Ekaterina, very good.

That's good, the best program I've used was Adobe Photoshop 7. I have it on my laptop! I've went to computer stores and seen Adobe Elements 6.0 for 110$. I was impressed about how the colour came out I used dodge tool, blur tool, and most importantly the paintbrush tool!

Here are my colourings from before (They're a little too light)

 

[Ekaterina Romanova]

Thanks Fabian!!

Well i have more of Nicky. The originals are public domain, but these , since i recolored them, are not

 

[AnastasiaEvidence]

Nice colourings, Ekatrina. You did a great job. I especially like the first photo of Nicholas on a bike. The third one is also great, too! Are you using the program recoloured? I've tried this program, and I wasn't so happy about the way the quality came out. I remember colouring around areas, and pressing the 'recolour' button and the results would come out somewhat messy. I'm not use to the program, and can't operate it well.


I'm more used to Adobe Photoshop 7. It's easier for me.

 

[Kalafrana]

Here is the picture I am referring to (unfortunately, when photographing the photograph, I missed the horse's nose off).

 

[AnastasiaEvidence]

Here is the picture I am referring to (unfortunately, when photographing the photograph, I missed the horse's nose off).

I've been trying to find better versions of this photo...

This is one of my favorite photos of Alix>>>

 

[queenofthelight]

I really happy that you are interested in the Russian history, the history of my country!
Czarevitch Nicholas II:
http://s5.tinypic.com/292r7o5.jpg
http://s5.tinypic.com/2u8ds86.jpg
http://s5.tinypic.com/25z6x40.jpg

 

[queenofthelight]

Alex and Nicholas.
http://i42.tinypic.com/9se9a8.jpg
http://i39.tinypic.com/350l25f.jpg

 

[AnastasiaEvidence]

I have all those of photoshop programs and recolored, I try to coloring some photos and I did not have good results. Ekaterina, very good.

I don't like recolored either. It was a ripoff even buying it. No wonder it was 30 dollars. The whole program is cheap. My colorings came out horribly. It was absolutely embarassing. The good coloring programs cost 60 dollars and above!

 

[Ekaterina Romanova]

Are you using the program recoloured?

Thanks!! well, yes i use recolored . I got the program for free and suits me very well since doesnt occupate much space on my computer and its easy to use. I couldnt change it for any other program!

 

[AnastasiaEvidence]

Thanks!! well, yes i use recolored . I got the program for free and suits me very well since doesnt occupate much space on my computer and its easy to use. I couldnt change it for any other program!

You're so lucky, you got a coloring program for free. I remember trying recolored and I wasn't happy with it, because there is not tools to enhance the quality and make it clearer.

I've been using Adobe Photshop 7 for a year now, and I'm satisfied with it. The program is very easy for me to use and color quickly.

 

[silverstar]

Alix was really a beauty , as these pics show.
( a little like Lady Diana in the above pic ! )

In the French Rev... Marie Antoinette was made into a hate figure and it was used
by revolutionary forces to ridicule the Monarchy and incite the population.
This was often done with illegal printing presses printing what was virtually pornography
with Marie Antoinette playing a central role.

I read somewhere that similarly in the Russian Rev.. Alix became a hate figure
and was used by the Revolutionaries to stir up the populace.

 

[AnastasiaEvidence]

Beautiful portraits of Alix, silverstar!
It's very sad how Alix was being blamed for Russia's revolution and was accused of being a German spy. Many others, like Grand Duchess Ella, tried to warn Alexandra of how dangerous Rasputin was. Of course, she was stubborn and refused to listen to anyone. Alix even hired and fired on governer positions based on what Rasputin told her. I think her faith in Rasputin help cause the Russian Revolution and destroy the dynasty. Rasputin was used by a secret group behind the communist revolutionaries, which acted to destroy the Romanov dynasty and the monarchy.

It all was terrible because her son, Alexei was very ill and she didn't have much help. Since Rasputin was there to stop Alexei's bleeding Alix had no other choice but to trust him.

 

[silverstar]

as with Marie Antoinette in the 1780s, from
being the darling of the Parisians and feted by
society, Marie became the hated figure... the German
bitch... suddenly there were dark, evil forces at large
like hungry wolves seeking to bring the French monarchy down.
Conspiracy theorists will say that the same evil forces
were at work in Moscow 120 years later.

 

[susan alicia]

some posting re Alix looking sad, they just did not ask you to smile when taking a picture in those days and being serious was a virtue. She mercifully had no way of knowing how terrible her life would end.

 

[AnastasiaEvidence]

some posting re Alix looking sad, they just did not ask you to smile when taking a picture in those days and being serious was a virtue. She mercifully had no way of knowing how terrible her life would end.

Before Rasputin died, he told Alix and she and her family would die within 2 years. Since she believed everything that Rasputin said, she definitetly was worried and very sad during her last months of her life.

 

[silverstar]

I recently read the autobiography of Elinor Glyn...." Romantic Adventure...."
well worth a read if you can get hold of it.
Elinor was of course the writer of racy novels in the Victorian era
in later life she even went to Hollywood to write and direct movies ! she had a
certain old world style that Hollywood was much in need of at the time.
She also travelled widely in Europe.. including Russia.......

.......... " In Moscow I was shocked to find that the Empress's unpopularity
amounted to hatred ... even as early as 1910 .
Because of her English descent I felt a natural sympathy for her.... but gradually I
came round to the general view of her as the evil genius of the country.

I was told that the Emperor was a genuinely nice man and capable of being friendly and human... when not under the influence of the Empress.... who... from the first, seemed to shed an atmosphere of unhappyness and dread over the whole court.
He would have liked to have enjoyed the companionship of the ladies of the Court... but the Empress would not allow it keeping him alone with her at Tsarskoe Selo... his only relaxation being regimental dinners with men where far too much wine was drunk.

She was of course strongly reactionary in her politics and in her later years seems to have imagined herself a second Catherine the Great . She appeared to have a positive hatred for the Russian people and to have determined to flout all their prejudices from the beginning.
Rasputin had originally been brought to the Court by the Duchess of Leuchtenberg.. a Montenegrin.
The Empress at that time had a great friendship with one of her ladies in waiting. This lady fell under the spell of Rasputin and she became his mistress.
She then introduced Rasputin to the Czarina who also fell under his influence and believed that he could cure her son.
The whole story is too appalling and only madness will explain it !

 

[Grace Angel]

I think had Nicholas and Alexandra been more open about why Rasputin was in the palace, instead of keeping their son's illness secret because they wanted him to be seen as a strong heir, people would have realized that madness wasn't the explanation, nor was the explanation the untruth that Alexandra and Rasputin were having an affair. But, it was easy to assume when you didn't know, and so the reputation of Alexandra got even worse after Rasputin was with the IF. Not that Rasputin should have been there of course.

 

[Velkoknezna Maria]

Nikolai and Alexandra

 

[Dierna23]

Never seen this version of the picture before - very beautiful. Thank you!

 

[silverstar]

funny how my pics in this thread have remained up
and running, yet every other pic I posted in this forum
has been deleted.
I started a Fergie thread with pics, the whole
thread was deleted.
This has made me give up the ghost with this forum
the mods are just a bit too precious..... as far as pics are concerned.........
and a forum...( like a book....) without
pictures .... is very dull indeed.

 

[Warren]

...and a Forum that ceases to exist because the owner has been sued for breach of copyright is even less appealing.

It's quite simple:
photos subject to copyright cannot be posted directly to the Forums;
photos not subject to copyright (most everything first published prior to 1923, or photos taken by yourself, or public domain and "free use" photos) can be posted directly.

Thus pictures of the late Imperial Family may be freely posted; pictures of Sarah Ferguson (unless taken by yourself) may not.

 

[AnastasiaEvidence]

Amazing photos of Alix and Nicky.

 

[Dierna23]

Very nice pictures, the secound one is one of my favourites of Alix, she was so beautiful.

 

[Velkoknezna Maria]

Moscow 1914
Same

Engagement photo 1
Second version
And another one

 

[silverstar]

 

[AnastasiaEvidence]

Sliverstar! That's amazing. Emperor Nicholas II, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and King George V! I like it, very much...
This is my favourite portrait of Empress Alexandra. She's so beautiful!