The palace of the Czar's mistress. #22

Photograph shows the palace of Mariinskiy ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska (also transliterated as Kshesinskaya and Kshesinskaya), Nicholas II's mistress, now the State Museum of Political History, in St. Petersburg, Russia.

J228389 U.S. Copyright Office.

Title from copyright register.

Copyrighted February 27, 1918 by Orrin S. Wightman.

Library of Congress copy mounted on cardboard.

Transfer; U.S. Copyright Office; 1918; 45730.

Wightman took this photograph when on an American Red Cross medical mission to Russia in 1917.

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1914 - 1918

Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/item/2014646340/

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