Portrait of the Lady-in-Waiting Anna Okulova by Pimen Orlov, 1837

Anna Alexeyevna Okulova (1794–1861) was born into an old Muscovite family, the eldest of five daughters of Alexei Matveyevich Okulov and his wife Praskovya Semionovna.
With the support of Nicholas I, in 1836 she was given the post of tutoress to his daughter, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna, and appointed a maid-of-honour.
On 26 August 1837, Anna Alexeyevna was granted the title maid of the bedchamber. After Olga Nikolayevna married in 1846, Anna Alexeyevna was awarded
the Order of St Catherine Small Cross. She lived out her days as a maid-of-honour in the Winter Palace. She is depicted here wearing a blue maid-of-honour’s dress
with silver embroidery as was appropriate for a tutoress of one of the grand duchesses.

Hans Holbein the Younger - Charles de Solier, Sieur de Morette, 1534 (detail)

'Daughter of the seasonal tea room' by Ikenaga Yasunari (池永 康晟, born 1965 in Oita Prefecture)

Georgia Fowler

Spain - Barcelona, 1955 Ramon Masats

František Drtikol (1883–1961) “Nu Feminino”

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Moscow metro before the holidays (1955)

Christmas tree intended for the German frontlines in World War I, c. 1917