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The monument "Heart of Europe" before the Brussels headquarters of the European Parliament was created by Ludmilla Tcherina (1924-2004)

I first came across the name of Tcherina in the opening titles of the film "The Red Shoes", and it turned out that she was not only an actress and ballerina but also a sculptor, painter and writer. Yet she owed her resonant Russian name not to her

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A Salon at the Arkhangelskoye Estate in the 1890s

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The Russo-Italian artist Paolo Troubetzkoy, Pavel Petrovich, not only created touching sculptures of animals, but was also a committed vegetarian

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With the death of Count Nikolai Petrovich Sheremetev, Dmitry Nikolayevich, his seven-year-old son by the former serf actress Praskovya Gorbunova-Zhemchugova, who died soon after the birth, was left a complete orphan

The boy's upbringing was taken on by the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, while as guardians of the little Sheremetev's person and of his fortune she appointed the State Secretary Dmitry Petrovich Troshchinsky and the Actual Privy Councillor and Senator Mikhail Ivanovich Danaurov, whose family settled in

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A Precious Reliquary with a Lock of Lucrezia Borgia's Hair in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan

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I am not hinting at anything, but this is Prince Charles, heir to the British crown, and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, chairman of the Rothschilds' international investment bank

As Ursula the sea witch used to say, body language, ha!

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Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston, with his sons Nikolai and Felix in Cossack costume, 1890s

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"Name?"

"Teresa Cristina Maria Josefa Gaspar Baltazar Melchiora Januária Rosalía Lucía Francisca de Assis Isabel Francisca de Paula de Alcântara Donata Bonosa Andreia de Avelino Rita Ludgarda Gertrudes Venância Tadea Spiridione Roca Matilde." "Can you make it shorter?" "Teresa Cristina." "Patronymic?" "Princess

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The Legendary "Florentine Diamond" and Fifteen Other Habsburg Jewels Thought Lost Were Kept in a Bank Vault in Canada

As it turns out, during the Second World War Empress Zita, widow of the last Austrian emperor, Charles I, took the family jewels out to Quebec, where she found refuge with her children. Only two members of the family knew where the treasures were, and the secret was to be

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On 6 July 1907 it was discovered that the Irish Crown Jewels, kept in a safe at Dublin Castle, had been stolen

On 6 July 1907 it was discovered that the Irish Crown Jewels, kept in a safe at Dublin Castle, had been stolen. Among the items taken were the insignia of the Order of Saint Patrick, an elite British chivalric order based in Ireland. The jewels were never found

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The Boudoir of the Marquise de Pompadour's Dog Has Seen a Great Deal in Its Time

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The uniform in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed, the bullet that killed him, the bullet hole in the glass, and the car in which he was travelling

The uniform in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed, the bullet that killed him, the bullet hole in the glass, and the car in which he was travelling. Exhibits of the Museum of Military History in Vienna. His wife's dress and the bullet that killed her are displayed