3-052-793 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Funeral of the Empress of Russia at St. Petersburg: the funeral procession, 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. It was conveyed in a superb gilded car, with a canopy of white and gold, followed by the Emperor Alexander II., on horseback, in military uniform, with his sons and other Princes, amongst whom was the Crown Prince of Germany, some of the foreign Ambassadors, and the chief dignitaries of the Court and State...About 5000 people assembled to join the procession, and all was done in perfect order'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.