Detail of 15cm elaborate and costly mati xie or 'horse-hoof shoes' worn on formal occasions by Cixi, Empress of China , c. 1900.
Detail of elaborate golden and jewelled zhijia tao or finger stalls worn by Cixi, Empress of China , c. 1900.
Empress Dowager Cixi, aka Empress Dowager Tzu-hsi, 1835 –1908. Chinese empress dowager and regent. From The Century Edition of Cassell's History of...
Last group photograph of the Danish royal family: from top left, Prince Jean d'Orleans, Czarevitch, Prince Waldemar of Denmark, Tsar Nicholas II...
Game of billiards between Alessandra, Queen of the United Kingdom, and Marija Foedorovna , Dowager Empress of Russia, in Hvidore House, Copenhagen,...
Nicholas II with Alexandra Feodorovna and the Dowager Empress, Copyright: Photos12.com - Private collection.
Empress Dowager Cixi of the Manchu Yehe Nara Clan, was a powerful and charismatic figure who became the de facto ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in...
Model wearing "Dowager Empress" by Michelle Tampakis, Faith Drobin and Chad Pagano of the Institute of Culinary Education
Constantine VI was the only child of Emperor Leo IV and Empress Irene. He was crowned co-emperor in 776, and became sole emperor in 780, aged only...
Empress Dowager Zhaoxian , mother of the first two Song emperors Taizu and Taizong. Hanging scroll painting, Song Dynasty . Lady Du, formally known...
Empress Dowager Cixi of the Manchu Yehe Nara Clan, was a powerful and charismatic figure who became the de facto ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in...
Empress Dowager Cixi of the Manchu Yehe Nara Clan, was a powerful and charismatic figure who became the de facto ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in...
Empress Dowager Cixi of the Manchu Yehe Nara Clan, was a powerful and charismatic figure who became the de facto ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in...
Empress Dowager Cixi of the Manchu Yehe Nara Clan, was a powerful and charismatic figure who became the de facto ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in...
Empress Dowager Cixi of the Manchu Yehe Nara Clan, was a powerful and charismatic figure who became the de facto ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in...
Empress Dowager Cixi of the Manchu Yehe Nara Clan, was a powerful and charismatic figure who became the de facto ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in...
Empress Dowager Cixi of the Manchu Yehe Nara Clan, was a powerful and charismatic figure who became the de facto ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in...
Empress Dowager Cixi of the Manchu Yehe Nara Clan, was a powerful and charismatic figure who became the de facto ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in...
Empress Dowager Cixi of the Manchu Yehe Nara Clan, was a powerful and charismatic figure who became the de facto ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in...
The Empress Dowager Ci'an , popularly known in China as the East Empress Dowager, officially known posthumously as the Xiaozhen Empress, was the...
The Empress Dowager Ci'an , popularly known in China as the East Empress Dowager, officially known posthumously as the Xiaozhen Empress, was the...
Stone boat in the Summer Palace, Beijing, China, LeMunyon, C. E., Hand-colored, oil?, gelatin silver, ca. 1910, The marble boat in Yihe Yuan was...
Peking, China, The Empress Dowager's counsellors in dealings with the powers: members of the Tsung-li Yamen, Peking, China, Ricalton, James,...
Forbidden City, Peking, China, The second yamen of the Imperial Palace, Forbidden City, Peking, China, H.C. White Co., Gelatin silver, A yámen is a...
Prince Ching, commander of city guards- secret friend of legation during siege- now Peace Commissioner, Pekin, Beijing China, Ricalton, James,...
Maria Feodorovna. Dowager Empress of Russia. 1885Ð90. Gelatin silver print. Image: 6 1/4 _ 8 5/16 in. . Photographs. Unknown .
Empress Dowager's favourite palace by the lake, Imperial City - Count Waldersee's headquarters, Peking, China.
Empress Dowager's favourite palace by the lake, Imperial City - Count Waldersee's headquarters, Peking, China.
The Dowager Empress of Russia, Maria Feodorovna known before her marriage as Princess Dagmar of Denmark and sister to Queen Alexandra of the United...
Maria Feodorovna , Danish princess and Empress of Russia as spouse of Emperor Alexander III . She was the second daughter of King Christian IX of...
Impératrice douairière de Chine Cixi posant avec des femmes de diplomates occidentaux, en Chine, en 1903.
Empress Dowager, Marie and Empress Alexandra, detail from the painting by the Russian artist, V. Polyakov, showing the speech from the throne by...
Chinese Pavilion at the Exposition Universelle of 1900. Top Right: Inset portrait of the Dowager Empress, Hu Zi. This was a fair held in Paris,...
Dowager Empress of China's Funeral. Photo shows: Street shot of crowds, with body of the Empress hidden under a large canopy.
Helen Hayes as the Dowager Empress and Ingrid Bergman as Anastasia in the 1956 version of the film Anastasia.
Not a "white elephant" at a used car bargain sale, this vehicle is a French built "horseless carriage" purchased by the late Empress Dowager, and was...
This is a portrait of the Dowager Empress of China, Wu Mei Niang. She is shown seated in traditional clothing.
The Dowager Empress of China, 1908. From Harmsworth History of the World, Volume 2, by Arthur Mee, J.A. Hammerton, & A.D. Innes, M.A.
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Portrait of the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi, painted by a naive Chinese artist from a photograph taken in 1903, China.
Empress Dowager's favourite palace by the lake, Imperial City. Count Waldersee's headquarters, Peking, China.
Empress Dowager's favourite palace by the lake, Imperial city, Beijing, China. During the Boxer Uprising it became Count Waldersee's headquarters....
Chinese Empress Dowager's favourite palace by the lake, in the Imperial city , Peking, China 1901. Photographic print on stereo card or stereograph.
The Dowager Empress of Russia, King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, May 1900 . Pictured at Amalienborg, Copenhagen, Denmark. Formerly known as...
Princess Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar, Dowager Empress of Russia, late 19th-early 20th century. Marie Sophie Frederikke Dagmar was the wife of Tsar...
Home of the Empress Dowager, Peking, China, 1901. Harmony Gate from elevated walk near the canal. Within the Forbidden City. Stereoscopic slide.
Funeral of the Empress Dowager of Japan, 1897. The funeral of Empress Eisho, widow of Emperor Komei of Japan. An illustration from Le Petit Journal,...
