The photo taken in October 1888 features Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich and his wife, Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna, on their trip to Jerusalem for the consecration of the Church of St. Mary Magdalene.
Grand Duke and Grand Duchess in Jerusalem
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10 October, 1888
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100x122,5 cm
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Born in a grand duchy in western Germany, Elizaveta Feodorovna was a Lutheran. In 1891, in Russia, she converted to Orthodoxy. In a letter to her father, she wrote about her decision to adopt the Orthodox faith:
‘All this time I was thinking and reading, and prayerfully asking God to show me the right way, and came to the conclusion that only in this religion can I find the true and strong faith in God one must have to be a good Christian.’
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The photo on display also features Sergei’s brother, Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich. His wife died, leaving him with two little children who grew up in the family of Sergei and Elizaveta as the Duke and the Duchess did not have children of their own.
The first from the left is Ekaterina Kozlyaninova, Elizaveta Feodorovna’s maid-of- honor, the position granted to well-born young women. Grand duchesses were attended by unmarried girls only; after marriage, the former maids of honour lost the title but retained some of the privileges.
The first from the left is Ekaterina Kozlyaninova, Elizaveta Feodorovna’s maid-of- honor, the position granted to well-born young women. Grand duchesses were attended by unmarried girls only; after marriage, the former maids of honour lost the title but retained some of the privileges.
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Contemporaries spoke of Yekaterina Kozlyaninova as a refined and educated young lady and the Grand Duchess’s favorite maid of honor. She attended to Elizaveta Feodorovna for ten years and then married Nikolai Strukov, the Grand Duchess’s secretary. The former maid of honor remained close to the Grand Duchess and appears in many photographs with Elizaveta Feodorovna.
Yekaterina Kozlyaninova accompanied the Grand Duchess during their trip to the Holy Land; there, when years had passed, she paid her final respects to Elizaveta Feodorovna. After their tragic death in Alapaevsk, the remains of Elizaveta Feodorovna and her nun-companion Sister Varvara were, with great difficulty, transported to Jerusalem. Yekaterina and her husband went to the Holy Land to see Elizaveta Feodorovna off on her last journey. The Grand Duchess and her nun-companion were canonized by the Orthodox Church; their relics are preserved in Jerusalem, in the Church of St. Mary Magdalene.
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Grand Duke and Grand Duchess in Jerusalem
Creation period
10 October, 1888
Dimensions
100x122,5 cm
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