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Post by Diane Merkel on Sept 3, 2007 11:30:44 GMT -6
ssbba was sent this photo a while back and was told that this was taken in 1891 in Darmstadt. Can anyone provide more information?
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Post by Diane Merkel on Mar 19, 2008 16:32:33 GMT -6
A professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Institut für Historische Ethnologie in Frankfurt sent me the following information: Ten years ago I did some research about Buffalo Bill in Darmstadt (1-3 May, 1891). The photo is at the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt, Germany:
Title: Darmstadt, 1891 Mai 1 - 3 / Wiese Ecke Pallaswiesenstraße / Frankfurterstraße mit Indianerlager von "Buffalo Bills Wild West" von Buffalo Bill (1846-1917) Date: 1891-05-01 (original date 1-3 May 1891) Number: HStAD Best. R 4 Nr. 22890
You find the information under www.hadis.hessen.de. Search for "Buffalo Bill" in the field "Schnellsuche". Danke!
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Post by Tricia on Apr 26, 2008 10:05:34 GMT -6
Diane--
I haven't access to her diaries, but is it possible that our favourite Russian Tsarina might have attended the Wild West show whilst still the Princess Alix of Hesse? Certainly it would have been at VRI's recommendation ...
Seems that Russian-Custer-Wild West stuff runs deeper and deeper.
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Post by Diane Merkel on Apr 27, 2008 8:43:07 GMT -6
I hadn't thought of that, but it's certainly possible. Wouldn't that be something -- another link!
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Post by Tricia on Apr 28, 2008 14:29:08 GMT -6
Alas ... I can only find one diary entry for 1891, Romanov-wise and it comes from Nicky. That said, without running for more specific dates, it wouldn't be beyond the realm of possibility for Princess Alix to actually act as cruise director if there was a more formal presentation to the Hessian (and bei Rhine) Court; until she married, that was her job ... her mother, Alice, had died from diptheria years before, leaving Alix's father, Louis, in need of a female welcoming presence.... It continued even until her brother, Ernst Ludwig, took the unfortunate Victoria Militia (Ducky) as his bride; until that event, and for all practical purposes, Alix was the official hostess with the mostest at all functions in the meagre Grand Duchy--some historians will even note that it was Ernst and Ducky's marriage that ultimately drove the future Alexandra Feodorovna into the Orthodox arms of the soon-to-be Tsar (Tsaraevich) Nicholas II. Of course, I'm not telling you anything new, Diane.
Now if I could only remember when Ducky and Ernst Ludwig married. I know it was a bond that ended rather badly; apparently the man was quite all the more interested in bonding with men (not unlike Sergei Alexandrovich) ... but, damn, ya gotta cringe at a woman whose nick name was "Ducky." Ick. She is the fat chick in all of those court photographs, right?
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Post by Diane Merkel on Apr 29, 2008 21:53:38 GMT -6
I'm not sure if that's her. I'll have to get out some of my books.
I know a woman named Chickie.
Ducky, Chickie . . . can Goosie be far behind?
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