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Par Dona Rodrigue le 6 Janvier 2014 à 01:39
The coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, took place with great pomp and ceremony on 26 May [14 May Old Style], 1896 in Moscow.
This magnificent collection of 60 photographs is a fitting tribute to the ceremony surrounding the crowning of Russia's last tsar.
The Kremlin and the Moscow Bridge decorated for the festivities
The Bolshoy Theater is decorated for the festivities
The Resurrection (later Revolution) Square and the Vitaly Fountain
The Strasnoy (Pushkin) Square
The festive pavilion of the Moscow Zemstvo across Tverskaya, opposite Strasnoy Monastery
The beautiful carved pavilion by the architect Fjodor Sehtel on Tverskaya
The asphalted Tverskaya along the Glinischevsky pereulok, with the Filippov bakery to the right
Facing it, the central building of the police and fire department
The Moscow Governor’s House, the home of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna
The Tverskaya continuing after the Manezhki
Further along Tverskaya, at the Georgievsky pereulok. Most of these buildings were demolished in the 20th century
Towards Kuznecki bridge
An unidentified place
On the corner of Myasnickaya, near the Red Gate
The adorned Red Gate (demolished in 1926)
A little square on the Kalanchovka, near the Red Gate
A temporary triumphal arch was constructed at the corner of Sretenka and Bulvarnoye kolco
Festive colonnade in front of the Moscow Assembly of the Nobility
Festive column on the Ohotny Ryad and the later pulled down Paraskeva Church
The Church of the Grebnovo Icon of Our Lady on the Lubyanka. It was demolished in 1898,
and the building erected on its place later became the infamous headquarters of Cheka/GPU/KGBThe first known examples of the festive pavilions regularly set up on Lubyanka Square
The bastion on the Kitaysky proyezd also received a festive dome
People assemble on the Red Square on the day of the Coronation
Flags and banners flutter on Red Square
The Manezh (to the left) and the Kutafya Bastion with the Romanov coat of arms
The Alexander Garden
The Petrovsky Palace where the tsar stayed during the festivities
Foreign delegations on the Khodynska field, across from the Petrovsky Palace
Triumphal arch on the Tverskaya, through which the tsar entered Moscow. Inscriptions on the columns read: "God, save the Tsar" and "Glory for ever and ever"
The tsar, according to the tradition, enters the old capital through the Tversky Gate on a white horse with silver horseshoes . . .
. . . proceeds to the Iversky (Iberian) Gate . . .
. . . Empress Marie, Tsar Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra visit the Iversky Chapel . . .
. . . then enter the Red Square through the Iversky Gate . . .
. . . they pass by the monument of Minin and Pozharsky and the recently erected GUM Emporium . . .
The carriage of the tsarina passes by the temporary grandstands set up on the Red Square, on the place of the later Lenin Mausoleum
The parade regiment waiting for the tsar on the Red Square, near to Lobnoye mesto
Festive entrance to the Kremlin through the Savior’s Gate. The Nicholas Palace can be seen on the left (demolished in 1929)
Guests of honor watching the march of the hussars from the grandstands near the Tsar’s Bell
The imperial regalia laid out in the Grand Kremlin Palace
The Andreyevsky or Throne Room
The three imperial thrones
Sedan chairs waiting for the tsar and tsarina
Officers having their photographs taken on the great occasion in front of the Tsar’s Cannon
Carriages in the Kremlin
The carriage of a guest of honor with lackeys and body-guards
The Senate Square in the Kremlin
The master of ceremonies announcing the details of the forthcoming coronation
Audience outside the Chudov Monastery (demolished in 1929) in the Kremlin
The tsar and his entourage at the bottom of the Red Staircase before entering the Uspensky Cathedral
Interior of the Uspensky Cathedral before the coronation
The imperial procession leaves the cathedral
“His Majesty, Tsar of All Russia” under the canopy after the coronation
The Honour guards line the path
Nicholas II ceremonially drinking a cup of vodka before the military parade on the Khodynka field
Policemen on the Khodynka field who later could not keep back the crowd of half million
On the Khodynka field at the beginning everything was in order
The Tsar’s pavilion, the grandstands and the crowd on the Khodynka field, some hours before the tragedy
it is estimated that 1,389 people were trampled to death,
and roughly 1,300 were injured on the Khodynka fieldThe festive illuminations of the Kremlin was an incredible novelty at the end of the 19th century
The Kremlin seen from the Bolshoy Kamennyj bridge
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