Tsarist Miscellania

[kell]

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[Vasillisos Markos]

Originally Posted by Vasillisos Markos

I am interested in learning more about the Order of St. Catherine. With the exception of the Order of St. Olga, which was only in existence for a couple of years during WWI, the OSC was the only order for women in Russia.

From what I've learned, most of the Grand Duchesses were members, some at birth, others when they married a Grand Duke. Princesses of imperial blood were invested upon reaching their majority.

The Empress was the head of the Order and it was for her lifetime. Therefore, it appears that Empress Marie Feodorovna was the last Mistress of the Order of St. Catherine.

There were twelve Dames Grand Cross, typically made up of females from European ruling houses. Alexandra of Great Britain was made a Dame Grand Cross, and so was Princess Alice of Greece, the mother of Prince Philip. But I cannot locate a list of members both inside and outside of Russia.

Does anyone have more information?

Here is a link to a photograph and article on the St. Catherine Hall in the Kremlin. I wish it had more information about the members of the Order.


Chapter 11 - St Catherine Hall - The Great Kremlin Palace & It’s Nine Churches

[Russophile]

Aw crap VM. Good try though.

[kell]

Turn-of-Century Russia in Color | Arts & Ideas | The Moscow Times romanovs in color exbhit in russia
In the “Russian Empire in Color” exhibition at the Photo Center, photographs by Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky reveal the churches, landscapes and inhabitants of the late Russian Empire in brilliant whites, sharp blues and rich purples.
A famous photographer, inventor and chemist, Prokudin-Gorsky invented a three-color method of photography with German scientist Adolf Miethe that projected monochrome negatives with red, green and blue light to achieve the illusion of color. Their announcement of the method’s success in 1902 marked the formal beginning of color photography.
In 1909, Prokudin-Gorsky won a commission from Tsar Nicholas II, a photography buff, to travel across Russia, documenting its people and places with his new technology. For his expeditions, the tsar granted Prokudin-Gorsky a steamship