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In 2013, at the Monastery of the Protection of the Mother of God in Bussy-en-Othe, some hundred kilometres from Paris, the nun Elizabeth of Leuchtenberg peacefully departed to the Lord

In 2013, at the Monastery of the Protection of the Mother of God in Bussy-en-Othe, some hundred kilometres from Paris, the nun Elizabeth of Leuchtenberg peacefully departed to the Lord. She was one of the last Russian nuns of the first wave of emigration and, at the same

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Jacob Ulfeldt described Russian court etiquette with great astonishment and displeasure

Jacob Ulfeldt described Russian court etiquette with great astonishment and displeasure. Ivan the Terrible he characterises as an arrogant, swaggering, vain and abrupt man, surrounded by dull-witted boyars and streltsy. The prince, moreover, was wholly inattentive and simply did not listen as the embassy's letters and addresses

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The Museum of the Defence of Moscow holds a Group Portrait of the Descendants of A.S. Pushkin Who Took Part in the Great Patriotic War, 1957, by the artist Lieutenant Colonel (retd) Vladimir Pereyaslavets

The Museum of the Defence of Moscow holds a Group Portrait of the Descendants of A.S. Pushkin Who Took Part in the Great Patriotic War, 1957, by the artist Lieutenant Colonel (retd) Vladimir Pereyaslavets. The portrait does not gather all of Pushkin's descendants who served in the

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A legal dispute of almost a century over ownership of the property of the Hohenzollern royal dynasty has come to an end: the German federal government, together with the states of Berlin and Brandenburg, has reached an agreement with the descendants of th

The dispute began in 1926, when a treaty on the division of property after the fall of the monarchy in 1918 was signed between representatives of the House and the former state of Prussia. However, since the Hohenzollern property had been confiscated before the agreement was concluded, the legal questions

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📌 Historical notes 📌 The sword for the harlots: how Joan of Arc restored order in a military camp. 📌 On the finer points of diplomatic etiquette under Ivan the Terrible. 📌 "Sunday: breakfast at Count Tolstoy's; dancing directly afterwards": how balls replaced cardio for Moscow high society. 📌 Assyrian wars

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The Moscow winter Seasons of 1814-15 were brighter and richer than the pre-war Seasons of 1810-11

The Moscow winter Seasons of 1814-15 were brighter and richer than the pre-war Seasons of 1810-11. This is understandable: people were exhausted by the hardships of war, by ruin, by universal gloom and endless mourning, and when the time came, they returned to life with new and

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Marie of Edinburgh, granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Alexander II, was the last Queen of Romania

She wrote sensual letters to George V and Nicholas II and was a veritable celebrity of her day. It is to this woman that the Entente owes Romania's abandonment of neutrality and its entry into the First World War on the side of Russia and Britain. Queen Marie

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A Moscow grandee, poet and celebrated writer, Yury Alexandrovich Neledinsky-Meletsky, found a touching and ingenious way of calming the anxieties of his ailing wife over the fate of their only son Sergei, who served in the years of the Patriotic War…

Yekaterina Khovanskaya, like many mothers, suffered greatly when no word came from her son, especially during the chief and bloodiest battles, which only aggravated her already very frail condition. The son was a notorious carouser and simply forgot to write home, so his papa devised a stratagem: he asked him,

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Felix Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston, at Different Periods of His Life

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Leopold I in ceremonial dress and a gigantic headdress of white plumes, crowned with a peacock: a sign of good news

Prince Gundaker of Liechtenstein with a sail of black feathers on his head: a bad omen

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The Military Governor of Moscow, Yury Vladimirovich Dolgorukov, Was a Great Friend of the Eminent Grandee Stepan Stepanovich Apraksin, Formerly Military Governor of Smolensk and Known Above All for His Lavish Receptions at His House on…

According to the account of Elizaveta Petrovna Yankova, Apraksin and Dolgorukov had a rather peculiar agreement: whichever of them died first was to give a sign to the other, who remained among the living, and to appear to him three times before his death, to announce that the hour had

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A few days ago King Charles III met the acting Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, at Sandringham House

Let us try to examine the furnishings of the drawing room in which such meetings take place. On the piano stands a row of family photographs. King George V and Queen Mary of Teck with Mr J. Walter Jones, the pigeon trainer of the Sandringham estate. A photograph of 1899