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beholdthebarbarianblood:

Empress Elisabeth of Austria.

(Source: bayushki)

beholdthebarbarianblood:

The young Elisabeth shortly after becoming Austrian Empress (by Amanda Bergstedt, 1855)

beholdthebarbarianblood:

Portrait of Elisabeth depicting her long hair (by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1864), one of two so-called “intimate” portraits of the empress; although its existence was kept a secret from the general public, it was the emperor’s favourite portrait of her and kept opposite his desk in his private study.

worldofhabsburgs:

29 May 1857, At 22:15 in the evening, in Budapest, after eleven hours of struggling to survive, the little Archduchess Sophie died in her mother’s arms, probably from dehydration, due to diarrhea or from convulsions due to high fever. Sophie’s body was brought back to Vienna and buried in the Imperial Crypt, in Ferdinandsgruft.

The death of her oldest child would haunt Elisabeth for her entire life. She was held indirectly responsible for Sophie’s death by her mother-in-law.

(Source: iklachomzwaartekracht)

history meme ◇ (1/9) royalty ◇ empress elisabeth of austria

Elisabeth of Austria (1837 – 1898) was the wife of Franz Joseph I, and therefore both Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary. The Empress is now thought to have been a non-conformist who abhorred conventional court protocol, as well as a free spirit, who valued an individual sense of freedom above anything else. Following the suicide of her son Rudolf, she withdrew from public life. She was murdered by an anarchist in Geneva, Switzerland at the age of 60.

(Source: encarpus)

carolathhabsburg:

Illustration of Kaiserin Elisabeth of Austria, AKA Sissi,

Im off to bed, Have you all a wonderful saturday night!!

(via worldofhabsburgs)

fimbul-vetr:

whoops i just spent several hours coloring my favorite photo of sisi

(feel free click the image to appreciate the details or smth)