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Really, just an ordinary Sunday: there I am, sitting with Mamma in my little hat
Really, just an ordinary Sunday: there I am, sitting with Mamma in my little hat. As for the doggie, I couldn't say
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I Have a Lovely Eighteenth-Century Sugar Bowl for You, My Dear Little Rats
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The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek, Rubens
The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek, Rubens. A question for the connoisseurs: what is the fellow in the bottom right corner up to?
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In the memoirs of Nikolai Volkov-Muromtsev there is an interesting episode about Khmelita, where he was born and raised
In the memoirs of Nikolai Volkov-Muromtsev there is an interesting episode about Khmelita, where he was born and raised. The estate was home to a water-carrier named Prokop, who had been born in 1799 a serf of the Griboyedovs. Prokop was a universal favourite, and the residents of
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By the favouring mercy of God, We, Alexander the Second, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod; Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan, Tsar of Poland, Tsar of Siberia, Tsar of the Tauric Chersonese…
By the favouring mercy of God, We, Alexander the Second, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod; Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan, Tsar of Poland, Tsar of Siberia, Tsar of the Tauric Chersonese, Tsar of Georgia; Sovereign of Pskov and Grand Duke of Smolensk,
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When members of the imperial family received the Orders of Saint Andrew and Saint Catherine
In the Russian Empire, heirs to the throne received the Order of Saint Andrew the First-Called at birth, male members of the imperial family at baptism, and princes of the imperial blood on coming of age. Grand Duchesses received the Order of Saint Catherine, First Class, at baptism, and
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The Children of Nicholas II
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Grand Dukes Alexander and Konstantin Pavlovich as Children, Portrait by the Artist Heide, 1790
Portrait of the Grand Dukes Alexander Pavlovich and Konstantin Pavlovich as children. Artist: Heyde. 1790
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Let us pay our respects to the memory of Marie Antoinette, executed on 16 October 1793, ten months after King Louis XVI
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A lady at her dressing table in a painting by Nicolas Lancret, early 18th century
Spent half a day with Mamma in the cosmetics halls of TsUM and am already fit to advise Madame Geoffrin on matters of beauty. Nicolas Lancret, early eighteenth century
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Kollontai came to a dinner with Queen Maud of Norway without gloves in 1928
The Soviet plenipotentiary Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai gravely offended the Queen of Norway on 7 March 1928 by turning up at a reception without gloves. She mentions this incident, and her strained relations with Nicholas II's cousin, Queen Maud of Great Britain, in her diary: "At the dinner
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Miniature Hand-Painted Fan in the Shape of a Bat, 1900
Found a splendid gift for witches of my acquaintance. A hand-painted miniature fan with a bat, 1900