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Demoiselle d'honneur
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Demoiselle d'honneur
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Saint Petersburg, a Ball event in the 1840s
Date 1842
date QS:P571,+1842-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
British Library HMNTS 10106.df.15
Notes Die dargestellte Person war am 6. Januar 1843 ? beim Neujahrsempfang des Zaren, zugleich der Dreikönigstag, die Ehrendame (Demoiselle d'honneur) der Zarenfamilie (sie trägt ein entsprechendes Diamant-Diadem als Erkennungszeichen im Haar) und entstammte, dieser Aufgabe entsprechend, aus dem Hochadel und Hofstaat der Zarenfamilie, sie war Mitglied des Ordens der Heiligen Catherine (laut kurzer Beschreibung im Buch von Rigby).
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Image extracted from page 256 of volume 2 of A Residence on the Shores of the Baltic. Described in a series of letters; published in two volumes., by RIGBY, Elizabeth - afterwards EASTLAKE (Elizabeth) Lady. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr.

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