Imperial Framed Miniature of Tsar Nicholas II
Cleveland Museum of Art

Imperial Framed Miniature of Tsar Nicholas II

Johannes Zehngraf (Russian, 1857–1908) · 1896

jade, gold, rubies, gouache, ivory, glass
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

This painted miniature is one of two miniatures that were personal gifts from the tsar and tsarina to one another in 1896, a year after the birth of their firstborn child, Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaievna. The tsar gave this miniature of himself to his wife, and she gave the one of the baby to him.

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