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Marshal Ney, his execution on 7 December 1815 and the title of Princes of the Moskva

Michel Ney, Prince of the Moskva, Tries to Regain Napoleon's Favour. Marshal Ney, a brave man, a triumphant commander, a leading general and a favourite of France, was the very man who persuaded Bonaparte, his patron, to abdicate the throne, while he himself joined the military council of

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"No one doubted that the Emperor would now find himself honest and devoted men": from the memoirs of Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna on the murder of Rasputin

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Magnificent woodwork in the studiolo from the Ducal Palace at Gubbio, created for Duke Federico da Montefeltro around 1480

Magnificent woodwork in the studiolo from the Ducal Palace at Gubbio, created for Duke Federico da Montefeltro around 1480. In the nineteenth century the studiolo was bought by a German art dealer and taken to Venice. In 1939 it was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum

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Princess Diana's younger brother has published a photograph from 1 July 1967, when, for Diana's sixth birthday party, their father, Earl Spencer, delighted the children by inviting Bert the camel from Peterborough Zoo to the estate

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Nun Elizabeth, great-great-granddaughter of Napoleon I, and the Leuchtenberg family

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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Yakov Ulfeld describes Ivan the Terrible and his play with the orb at an embassy reception

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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Digest of posts on history, art and current topics, with a new podcast episode

Since action is sure and inaction false, pray accept the monthly digest of the main pieces published on the channel. 📌 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:

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Moscow Balls in the Winter of 1814 and 1815 in a Letter by Sofya Volkova

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,