Russian sailors believed rough seas were caused by the Sea Tsar dancing to the gusli and would pray to the patron saint of mariners Mikula Mozhaysk for the music to stop so calmer seas would follow
Art: Frank C Pape (1878-1972)
Sergey Malyutin (1859-1937)

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Sketch for the opera, 'The Tale of Tsar Saltan', by Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov, 1913

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➡️C.Hall, Queen Victoria and the Romanovs
➡️M. Clegg, Empress Alexandra. The special relationship between Russia’s last tsarina and Queen Victoria
➡️Victoria avec sa petite fille Alexandra Feodorovna (Princesse Alix de Hesse), qui se mariera avec le Tsar russe Nicholas II en 1894

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🇷🇺Saint-Pétersbourg, 13 mars 1881:
Alexandre II est assassiné.
Celui qu'on surnomme le "Tsar Émancipateur", projetait alors d'octroyer au peuple russe une constitution libérale. Pas assez libérale, sans doute, aux yeux des anarchistes nihilistes qui lui ôtèrent la vie

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The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His Son the Renowned and Mighty Bogatyr Prince Gvidon Saltanovich, and of the Beautiful Princess-Swan

Illustrations by by Ivan Bilibin, 1905

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Last month's pic/design was @ /Sam_Tsar 's suggestion, cavern! How it works is that all $5+ patrons suggest a theme, & I pic my favorite one to make an illustration/character design for. Patrons are able to keep the design as an adopt, or offer it up to other $5+ patrons to grab!

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28 Feb 1557: Osip Nepea representative of Tsar Ivan IV parades through the streets of with the Lord Mayor & aldermen to lodge in Fenchurch St (BM)

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Born in 1690: Tsarevich of Russia (1690-1718), son of Tsar

Portrait by Johann Gottfried Tannauer (1680-1733), ca. 1710-5

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© Baron George Hoyningen-Huene (1900-1968) was a seminal fashion photographer of the 1920s &1930s.
He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, to a Baltic nobleman, the chief equerry to Tsar Alexander III and an American mother whose own father.../...



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Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria. The most successful ruler of Bulgaria, who brought it to its greatest extent.

He did it largely by observing the Byzantines and beating them at their own game. Thread.

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Born in 1779: Princess (1779-1826), aka Empress of Russia as wife of Tsar

Portrait by Jean-Laurent (1743-1808), 1805

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also.. the specific illustration of St Demetrius that I used as inspiration for my pose! I drew Tsar Kaloyan because historically that that is who St Demetrius is killing. traditionally he is killing Lyaios the Gladiator.. but he was killed by St. Nestor, St Demetrius’ disciple.

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Bon, journée pourrie, il faut bien l'avouer, alors une jolie aquarelle de la GD Olga Alexandrovna pour compenser. C'était la soeur du tsar Nicolas II et après la révolution elle vivra modestement comme artiste peintre. Ses oeuvres sont essentiellement conservées au Danemark.

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Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna, eldest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (née Princess Alix of Hesse), was born in Tsarskoye Selo on this day in 1895.

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Sketch for the opera, 'The Tale of Tsar Saltan', by Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov, 1913

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L'une de mes peintures préférées, par Ivan Aïvazovski (1886). Elle représente la parade navale de la flotte russe de la mer Noire en 1849, devant le tsar Nicolas Ier, accompagné de son fils, le tsarévitch Alexandre, de l’amiral Lazarev et des vice-amiraux Kornilov et Nakhimov...

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The Neva flows, a new wind blows
And soon it will be spriiiiiing ~
The leaves unfold, the Tsar lies coooooooooooold ~

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(1) Tsar Nicholas II & the Tsarina of Russia (2) the Kaiser of Germany. Others will know more than me, but, as I understand it, Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, & Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany - were all first cousins of King George V. If I have that wrong, someone please correct me.

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Tsar Mirnatius, but without beard.

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Tsar Mirnatius and Irina. From Spinning Silver by .

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