Tsarevich Nicholas visiting Saigon, Saïgon, 21-3-1891
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NICHOLAS II, Tsar of Russia.
A fine group portrait including a very youthful Nicholas in a tropical suit at Saigon, albumen print, on the mount of L. Talbot of Saigon, image 280 x 230mm., French Indo-China, 1891.Footnotes. The Tsarevich visited Saigon during his extensive tour of 1890-1891. Here he is pictured with Prince George of Greece and Denmark (fourth from right). It was a little later on this tour that George is credited as having saved the Tsarevich from an assassination attempt by a Japanese policeman, known as the 'Otsu incident'. George was later High Commissioner in Crete...
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Tsarevich Nicholas visiting Saigon
Saigon, Vietnam
Tsarevich Nicholas (later Tsar Nicholas II) visiting Saigon (present-day Ho Chi Minh City) in 1891.
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