Saint Alexei of the Russian Orthodox Church, ca 1911

Colorized a photo of the the former Tzarevich Alexei Nikolaevich murdered along with the entire Romanoff family in 1917.  2017 is the Centennial of their murders at Ekaterinburg.  The entire family have been declared Saints by the Russian Orthodox church.

 

The Romanoff Family circa 1913 -1914 (Alternate Pose & Colorization)

Taken with a different pose and arrangement as the first which was the more popular of the two and also preserved with better detailing than the other earlier family shots. This alternate shot with a different order does not have the flowing graceful composition of the first with poor little Alexei overwhelmed by the crowd.

I have taken more creative liberties in colorizing this. A little research done earlier tended to show that the Tzar's imperial uniforms had a two-tone color, as is most common among royal military uniforms in Europe such as the Scott's and Hussar's uniforms, usually the neck, cuffs and breast. The colorization here takes some liberties to create a more aggressive and diverse color palette than the first. This time around, I used pastels for the ladies. 

 

The Romanoff Family circa 1913 -1914

This colorized family portrait of Russian Czar Nicholas II takes creative liberties in the choice of colors on both background and the subjects. The B&W registration of light pastel colors often result in white but except for the Czarina Alexandra, I preferred using a common color scheme for the daughters based on the many official pictures where they appeared to wear uniform apparel. This photo shoot was taken sometime between 1913 and 1914 just 3-4 years away from their murders by the Bolshevics during the takeover by Lenin and his communist party. The entire family members have been canonized as Saints and Martyrs of the Russian Orthodox Church in November 1981, They are, left to right, seated: Grand Duchess Maria Nicholaevna; Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna; Czarevitch Alexei Nicholaevitch on the floor; Tsar Nicholas II; Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaevna Standing: Grand Duchess Tatiana & Grand Duchess Olga Nicholaevna. Downloaded from the U.S. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs All colors were guessed as there have been several colorization works on the same subject.