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A number of the footnotes in this splendid article are to "The State Hermitage Museum". The URL is identified within the references, but this page has disappeared since 2008. The Wayback Machine has made plenty of backups, but (for me, this evening) none works. There's now a short page about the building here; perhaps what's credited to the old page can be checked against the new one and if found there the footnote can be changed accordingly. -- Hoary ( talk) 14:30, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
One of the images in the article is "File:Maria Alexandrovnabedroom.jpg". According to the file description on Commons it is the bedroom of Maria Alexandrovna, but in the article the caption states that it is the bedroom of Alexandra Feodorovna. Which is it? -- Y not? 17:21, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
LOL he was an all time great player who famously retired and unretired a bunch of times. No offense meant to anyone. <3 all y'all chic librarians. -- Y not? 02:24, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
It is the bedroom of Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) (it was painted in 1852). It's my fault, I must have confused my Tsaritsa when originally uploading the picture. please don't fall out over my "retirement", I was just passing through and saw this mistake and fixed it because it wa my mistake! Giano (talk) 18:00, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
I am confused. The legend on the picture states that Tsar Alexander II "died on the chaise longue by the columns" which is on the right of the picture. However; under "Tsar's Study (14)" is stated that he died "on the sofa to the left of the picture". This is the kind of thing that keeps me awake at night. John C Kay ( talk) 01:02, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
It appears that the identification of "Maria Feodorovna" in the article is at best confusing. Mentioned first in relation to the assassination of Alexander II of Russia, this would seem to be Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark), spouse of Emperor Alexander III of Russia, as likely to be present at the time. Yet then the second mention of "Maria Feodorovna" is linked to Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse), who was the spouse of Alexander II's grandson, would have been age 9 at the time of the assassination, and who didn't have 'Maria' as one of her names. Oh, and who had a bad relationship with her mother-in-law Maria Feodorovna.
Why is "Maria Feodorovna" linked to Alix? Are there really different two Maria's being mentioned? If so, then the first mention ought to be linked, and correctly, as separate from the second link. Or did everyone quite miss since 2008 that Nicholas was married to his mother? Shenme ( talk) 01:32, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
A fact from Private Apartments of the Winter Palace appeared on Wikipedia's
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A number of the footnotes in this splendid article are to "The State Hermitage Museum". The URL is identified within the references, but this page has disappeared since 2008. The Wayback Machine has made plenty of backups, but (for me, this evening) none works. There's now a short page about the building here; perhaps what's credited to the old page can be checked against the new one and if found there the footnote can be changed accordingly. -- Hoary ( talk) 14:30, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
One of the images in the article is "File:Maria Alexandrovnabedroom.jpg". According to the file description on Commons it is the bedroom of Maria Alexandrovna, but in the article the caption states that it is the bedroom of Alexandra Feodorovna. Which is it? -- Y not? 17:21, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
LOL he was an all time great player who famously retired and unretired a bunch of times. No offense meant to anyone. <3 all y'all chic librarians. -- Y not? 02:24, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
It is the bedroom of Alexandra Feodorovna (Charlotte of Prussia) (it was painted in 1852). It's my fault, I must have confused my Tsaritsa when originally uploading the picture. please don't fall out over my "retirement", I was just passing through and saw this mistake and fixed it because it wa my mistake! Giano (talk) 18:00, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
I am confused. The legend on the picture states that Tsar Alexander II "died on the chaise longue by the columns" which is on the right of the picture. However; under "Tsar's Study (14)" is stated that he died "on the sofa to the left of the picture". This is the kind of thing that keeps me awake at night. John C Kay ( talk) 01:02, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
It appears that the identification of "Maria Feodorovna" in the article is at best confusing. Mentioned first in relation to the assassination of Alexander II of Russia, this would seem to be Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark), spouse of Emperor Alexander III of Russia, as likely to be present at the time. Yet then the second mention of "Maria Feodorovna" is linked to Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse), who was the spouse of Alexander II's grandson, would have been age 9 at the time of the assassination, and who didn't have 'Maria' as one of her names. Oh, and who had a bad relationship with her mother-in-law Maria Feodorovna.
Why is "Maria Feodorovna" linked to Alix? Are there really different two Maria's being mentioned? If so, then the first mention ought to be linked, and correctly, as separate from the second link. Or did everyone quite miss since 2008 that Nicholas was married to his mother? Shenme ( talk) 01:32, 17 June 2015 (UTC)