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# Emperor Alexander I and Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna, Drawn in Japan
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/imperator-aleksandr-i-i-imperatritsa-elizaveta-alekseevna-narisovannye-v-iaponii/
- Published: 2025-05-31T07:02:03.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:29:55.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: The East, Art, Monarchies, Observations, Humour

The august pair were captured by an artist who most probably never saw them and had not the faintest notion of their appearance, so that the realism of the portraits rests solely on pale skin and fair hair.

I do not know whether there exists a reality in which the Russian imperial couple would look more epic.