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Grand Duchess Xenia c1915. Like a precious jewel, Xenia Alexandrovna poses in her state ceremonial costume. At this time there were an incredible 1.9 million members of the Rus- sian nobility (this class provided most of the Russian civil service). After 1917, many of these people found themselves in exile in Europe and America. As late as the 1970s I re- member drinking with the artist Laurie Baldwyn at the Russian Club near the Ukraine Em- bassy in Kensington - still then the meeting place of elderly expatriate minor nobility. Exo- tic photographs like this, at the end of the Belle Epoque, and later after the Russian revolu- tion and civil war, made a stock appearance in society columns in newspapers and maga- zines in the Western world. But were gradually replaced with a new home-grown ‘aristo- cracy’ - the glamorous celebrities of Hollywood:
Adolph de Meyer: Mary Pickford on her Wedding Day 1920 https://fromthebygone.wordpress.com/tag/adolph-de-meyer/
