crowned with roses

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna with her daughters - Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia Romanov in 1913.

I'm so tired of feeling worthless. I am so tired of being hurt. I am so tired of never ever being good enough, and always being unwanted. It's all I'll ever be. I just want a break from being me..

-from Lieutenant John Irving, of H.M.S. Terror, In Sir John Franklin’s Last Expedition to the Arctic Regions: A Memorial Sketch with Letters (1881) , compiled by Benjamin Bell

Wisteria by Piotr Kouzmitch Stoliarenko

Historical Fashion Challenge 2025

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by Mariyana Atanasova

Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you.

I have made you and I will carry you;

I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

(Isaiah 46:4)

(Kevin Carden art on instagram)

Adélie penguins in front of the barque Europa in Antarctica

H.M.S. “Terror”, Whalefish Island, Greenland, 10th July 1845 – My dear Kate… I have eight hours’ watch out of the twenty-four to keep on deck, and I have charge of our chronometers, which are little clocks. I have to wind them up and compare them, and write an account of their goings on–there are ten of them in each ship,–and also various astronomical observations to make, and calculations… Yours ever affectionately, John Irving

irving is holding a compass, not a chronometer, but the boxes look alike

Promise me you’ll survive. That you won’t give up, not matter what happens, no matter how hopeless.

TITANIC (1997) dir. James Cameron

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna looking off into the distance.

Portovenere, Spezia, taly by Vincenzo

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The Rebel Princess

Maria Feodorovna playing cards with her father and sisters.