3-052-792 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Funeral of the Empress of Russia at St. Petersburg: the lying in state in the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, 1880. 'The ceremonies attending the funeral of the late Empress at St. Petersburg, on the 7th, 8th, and 9th June, are the subject of [our] Illustrations, from sketches furnished by a correspondent in that city. At noon on Monday, the 7th, the body was removed from the Winter Palace, where she died, to the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul, in which is a Cathedral Church dedicated to those saints...Next day the public were admitted, in the morning by ticket, in the evening quite freely and indiscriminately, to the Cathedral Church, where they saw the body of the Empress lying in state. It was in the centre, beneath the dome, upon a raised platform covered with red cloth. The coffin was partially covered with a pall of cloth of gold, but the face and hand of the Empress were exposed to view'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.