Tag: Ballerup Museum
Book release
Our latest book release features articles commemorating the danish princess Dagmar – the Russian empress Maria Feodorovna – and the memorable moments and places in Denmark dearest to her heart: – The double engagements to the granddukes Nicolas (1864) and Alexander (1866) at the Bernstorff and Fredensborg Palaces – The grand fête celebrated at her […]
Dress belonging to empress Maria Feodorovna
Thousands of sparkling sequins, pearls and jetbeads all hand embroidered by nameless seamstresses for the Empress dowager Maria Feodorovnas wonderfull black tulle-satin-and-lace dress in 1912. The dress was designed by the fashionable Brissac – couturier to the Imperial court and the grand ladies of Sct. Petersburg, and was exhibited at the 2019 easter exhibition, comemorating […]
Russian Icons and antiques
Great variety in artefacts coming up next week on web auction sale in Copenhagen, including another wonderful painting by Grandduchess Olga and several 18th century Russsian icons, including a richly decorated silver Oklad and Mother of God inlaid with pearls Link to auction
Grandduchess Olga as an artist
Grandduchess Olga Alexandrovna (1882 – 1960), the daughter of Emperor Alexander III and Empress Maria Feodorovna, was a younger sister to the last Romanov Emperor Nicholas II. As a child, she studied in the Imperial Palace at Gatchina under the guidance of the best artists of the empire, nameley Kirill Vikentievich Lemokh (Moscow, 1841 – […]
Grandduchess Olga painting for sale
Upcoming international Danish web auction in Copenhagen features yet another delicate and lovely oilpainting by Grandduchess Olga, to be sold on august 21st, valued at 10.000 Dkkr. and signed “Olga” Visit webauction
Olga Alexandrovna
Remembering Grandduchess Olga Alexandrovna, youngest daughter of Emperor Alexander III and Empress Maria Feodorovna. Here seen as a young girl, arriving in Copenhagen by steamship, sitting “in front” – with her back turned wearing a wonderful strawhat and polka dot dress – of the royal carriage with her mother, Empress Maria Feodorovna and her maternal […]
Imperial splendour
Upcoming danish auction at Bruun-Rasmussen – Part of the Bonham´s network – on sale 15th of June in Copenhagen are some really spectacular imperial easter-eggs. The 4 eggs are by renowned Petersburg workshops, notably Carl Fabergé, Alfred Thieleman and August Holmström; They each come with a royal provenance, since they were given as presents by […]
Lots of royal trinkets on upcoming auction
Lots of royal trinkets are up for auction this winter, as the Danish Bruun Rasmussen auctionhouse in Copenhagen goes “Russian Imperial Style”. On sale is a historically very interesting piece of gold jewelry, a medallion containing hair from the Romanov Grandduke Nikolai Aleksandrovich, who died in Nice in 1865. The Grandduke had recently been betrothed […]
Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna
This lovely Danish farmers-house in a rustic spring floral garden was painted by Grand duchess Olga Alexandrovna and depicts her Danish home, the Knudsminde at Ballerup (outskirts of Copenhagen). Up for auction at the Bruun-Ramsussen´s Russian auctions June 2nd (2021), it is valued at 25.000 Dkkr.
Exhibition re-opening
An exhibition celebrating the centenary of the arrival of Grandduchess Olga in Denmark in 1920 is now re-opening at the great Olga collection in Ballerup