Aristocracy - The Parnassian (Page 6)

Aristocracy · Books · Monarchies · Paris

That supple, passionate body The crowd trampled underfoot for me, And mocked it, and stripped it…

That supple, passionate body The crowd trampled underfoot for me, And mocked it, and stripped it… And at the body I did not Dare to look… But I was hacked off from the body, Flung, scraps Of inflamed flesh, upon a stone… And the Parisian rabble Carried me off in

Aristocracy · Archive · London · Monarchies · Mores

Queen Elizabeth II, her younger sister Princess Margaret, her cousin Princess Alexandra of Kent and her cousin-in-law Katharine, Duchess of Kent hold their children, born in the same year within a very short span of one another, in the course of…

The year 1964 gave the British royal family four children. On 29 February Princess Alexandra gave birth to James, on 10 March Elizabeth II gave birth to Prince Edward, on 28 April the Duchess of Kent gave birth to Helen, and on 1 May Princess Margaret gave birth to Sarah.

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A Fourteenth-Century Rave, or the Visconti Hours of Gian Galeazzo

Aristocracy · Museums · Mores · People

Denis Davydov's Golden Toothpick

The Pushkin Museum

Aristocracy · Moscow · Museums · Mores · Saint Petersburg

A cast-bronze Olenin samovar of the early nineteenth century, with a tap in the form of an eagle's head

The samovar belonged to Alexey Nikolayevich Olenin, President of the Academy of Arts and Director of the Imperial Public Library, whose salon was among the most brilliant in Saint Petersburg. Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin entered Olenin's salon straight from the Lyceum; here he made the acquaintance of Gnedich and

Aristocracy · Monarchies · People

Princess Alexandra of Kent Turns 88: She Is Now the Third Most Senior Member of the British Royal Family, After Her Elder Brother, the 89-Year-Old Duke of Kent, and His 91-Year-Old Wife Katharine

Princess Alexandra of Kent, the most Russian member of the British royal family and a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, is the granddaughter of Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna and the great-great-granddaughter of Emperor Alexander II. Princess Alexandra of Kent is the last member of the English royal

Aristocracy · Observations · Humour

I do love the eighteenth-century Russian language for such charming feminine forms as “baronsha”

None of your refined baronesses, mind you, but a proper, solid, genuine baronsha

Aristocracy · Architecture · Moscow · Heritage

In the Neskuchny Garden, Count Orlov's grotto has been restored for the first time and recognised as a cultural heritage site of federal significance

In the Neskuchny Garden, Count Orlov's grotto, recognised as a cultural heritage site of federal significance, has been restored for the first time. Its viewing platform opens onto the Moskva River, Catherine's Pond and Count Orlov's Summer House. The structure appeared here at the

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Besides the headlines with their droll puns, heirbnb and scarebnb, there is the recent piece in The Sun about the purchase of new property in Portugal by Prince Harry and his in every respect charming American wife, Markle, presumably to let out…

The money comes, remarkably enough, as an inheritance from his great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, née Bowes-Lyon. Here is how it came about. The Queen Mother, matriarch of the British monarchy, died in 2002, a very short time before her 102nd birthday. So why was her legacy

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The daughters of Emperor Nicholas II out walking with Anna Vyrubova, the closest and most devoted friend of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna

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Grand Dukes Vladimir Alexandrovich and Alexander Alexandrovich, Duke Nikolai Maximilianovich of Leuchtenberg and Duke Albert of Saxe-Altenburg amuse themselves with a camera in Saint Petersburg of the 1860s as best they can

Aristocracy · Archaeology · Moscow · Museums · People

The Historical Museum has launched an online project dedicated to Count Alexei Uvarov, scholar, archaeologist, founder of the Moscow Archaeological Society, collector and patron of the arts

Uvarov was the author of the idea of creating the Historical Museum and devoted all his strength and knowledge to the successful realisation of the project. The website gathers materials on the life and scholarly work of Alexei Uvarov. The scholar considered the creation of the Russian Historical Museum on