Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna on holiday in Darmstadt with family and retinue, 1899

In the front row, left to right: Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna (Victoria Melita of Great Britain), Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.

In the second row: first on the right, our handsome, dearly beloved Emperor Nicholas II; second on the left, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich; on the far left, Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich.

At the summit of the pyramid, Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich.

Victoria Melita stands beside her first husband, Ernst Ludwig of Hesse, and holds by the leg her future second husband, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich.

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