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- The death mask of the murdered Empress can be seen in the Sisi Museum, and the black coat with egret feathers, which covered Elisabeth after her assassination on Lake Geneva and in which she was taken to the Hotel Beau Rivage.
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Apr 17, 2023 · April 17, 2023. 4 minutes. Austria, Clothing, Empress Elizabeth, Mask, Mourning, Victorians. I’m no stranger to mourning clothing, nor do the rituals of grief and sorrow surprise me, but occasionally something will stop me in my tracks. The mourning mask and veil of Austria’s Empress Elisabeth is one such item. Fanny Scheiner, Vienna c.1880.
On 10 September 1898 Europe was shocked by the news that Empress Elisabeth of Austria had been assassinated. Elisabeth’s tragic death was the end of the troubled, unhappy and often misunderstood life of a highly unusual personality. It also made a decisive contribution to the creation of a myth which Elisabeth had fostered while she was alive ...
The death mask of the murdered empress can also be seen in the Sisi Museum, as can the black coat with egret feathers, which covered Elisabeth after her assassination on Lake Geneva and in which she was taken to the Hotel Beau Rivage.
- Michaelerplatz, Vienna, 1010
- 7 min
- 01 5337570
Signature. Elisabeth (born Duchess Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie in Bavaria; 24 December 1837 – 10 September 1898), nicknamed Sisi or Sissi, [1] was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph I on 24 April 1854 until her assassination in 1898. Elisabeth was born into the Ducal royal branch of the Bavarian ...
Jan 4, 2018 · Emperor Franz Joseph, and his wife Empress Elisabeth, of Austria. By the 1880s, it was clear Sisi was suffering from a serious mental illness herself. Marie Valerie, the one child on whom...
Jul 28, 2020 · 28th July 2020. Empress Elisabeth of Austria was one of the most beautiful women of nineteenth-century Europe, yet this beauty was the determined result of intensive labour, at considerable cost ...
Nov 1, 2023 · The saloon car was gifted to her from the Austrian railway companies. Sisi’s black mourning coat with egret feathers. Sisi’s mourning wardrobe is also shown — jewelry in onyx and jet and the black coat and hat with egret feathers. There’s also the death mask of the murdered empress.