These photos chronicle the arrival, rise, and fall of the cage crinoline in Russia. The Leuchtenbergs were a thoroughly Russianized branch of the Beauharnais family. She married Duke Alexander from a thoroughly Russianized branch of the Oldenburg family. Her Wikipedia article is here.
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1556 Catherine de Medici possibly by Agnolo Bronzino
Portrait of Empress-Maria Alexandrovna, Alexandra Iosifovna, and Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) seated
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