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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
Aristocracy · Archive · Faith · Moscow · Mores
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
Aristocracy · Archive · Monarchies · Mores
Windsor family photographs on the drawing room piano, four generations and the Danish sisters
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
Aristocracy · Books · Monarchies · Paris
Maximilian Voloshin's poem about Madame de Lamballe's head on a pike above the Paris crowd
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
The Olenin samovar in the Pushkin Museum and the poet's failed courtship of Anna Olenina
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
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
Count Orlov's late 18th century grotto in Neskuchny Garden restored for the first time
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