Princess Sonia Orbeliani
This is an unmounted stereoview on thin photographic paper. On the backside, the woman is identified (in old hand) as: Princess Sonia Ivanovna Orbeliani. Sonia Orbeliani was born in 1875 in St.Petersburg. At the age of 23, she became the first lady-in-waiting and a close friend of the last russian Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse). In 1903 she fell ill with an incurable progressive spinal disease, which finally led to total paralysis and death. Until her dead in 1915, she stayed in the Palace Tsarskoe Selo and the Tsarina cared for her.
[This photograph is not from the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Album but I have included it there for historical reasons.]
Princess Sonia Orbeliani
This is an unmounted stereoview on thin photographic paper. On the backside, the woman is identified (in old hand) as: Princess Sonia Ivanovna Orbeliani. Sonia Orbeliani was born in 1875 in St.Petersburg. At the age of 23, she became the first lady-in-waiting and a close friend of the last russian Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse). In 1903 she fell ill with an incurable progressive spinal disease, which finally led to total paralysis and death. Until her dead in 1915, she stayed in the Palace Tsarskoe Selo and the Tsarina cared for her.
[This photograph is not from the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Album but I have included it there for historical reasons.]