This is the cover of the book 'Nicholas and Alexandra The last Imperial Family of Tsarist Russia'.
Page 34 of this large book is dedicated to 3 paintings of the artist Stember (Victor Karlovich Shtember) which are in the Hermitage Collection and which also toured the world in the 'Nicholas and Alexandra Exhibition. The family was very fortunate to visit the exhibition in Boston.
The three portraits included along with indepth information of each of the persons is included on this site as:
#186: S.M. Raevskaya
#191: Count D.A. Sheremetev
#123: Baroness D.E. Grevenits
The book's credit line gives Stember's dates as 1863-1917. That death year is wrong: he died on January 11, 1921, as his diary records, but the mistake has since been repeated on auction sites and Wikimedia Commons. The exhibition toured the United States in 1998 and 1999.
Artwork Visible in This Photograph
Can you identify a painting or person in this photograph? Please contact the family.