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French Aristocratic Fashion of the Eighteenth Century

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Human Relations

Human relations. 1932 American photographer William Mortensen (1897-1965)

White frames on a wooden wall hold photographs of restaurant guests, including a man in a suit and a woman wearing pearls beside a man.

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Photographs of Georgy and Maria Romanov on the wall of the Old Pier restaurant in Kostroma

I do love studying the boards of honoured guests in restaurants. In the Staraya Pristan in Kostroma I found a photograph of Georgy Mikhailovich Romanov and Maria Vladimirovna Romanova, which answered the question of whether the present representatives of the Russian Imperial House had ever visited the city that was

Black-and-white photo of a woman in a short dress and cap covered with flowers walking hand in hand with a man in a dark suit, with children and a policeman behind.

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Susan Hampshire married in 1967 in a Dior dress with organza daisies

A Dior dress with hundreds of organza daisies. The actress Susan Hampshire wore it on her wedding day in 1967

A woman in a black dress rests her head on the edge of an open chest, with a white satin dress and white shoes on the floor beside her.

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Painting by Frederick William Elwell, 1911, of a woman in black beside an open chest

Remembering what the wedding dress cost. Frederick William Elwell, 1911

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Maïwenn's film “Jeanne du Barry” with Johnny Depp as Louis XV

It has been a long time since such a handsome costume drama as Maïwenn's "Jeanne du Barry" came out. Johnny Depp plays Louis XV, and at precisely the age the actor himself is now. His influential 25-year-old favourite, however, is played by the 47-

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Ian Ball tried to kidnap Princess Anne in London, and her defenders received awards

On the evening of 20 March 1974, the limousine in which Princess Anne and her husband were driving to Buckingham Palace from a charity screening was attacked in an attempt to abduct the princess. The royal car's path was blocked by a white Ford Escort, from which a

Faith · Monarchies · Mores · Saint Petersburg

A noblewoman petitioned the Virgin Mary against Catherine II, and the Empress returned her estate

At one solemn service Catherine II saw a woman fall to her knees before an icon of the Mother of God and throw a paper on the floor. When the paper was picked up, it turned out to be a complaint against the Empress, addressed to the Mother of God

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Forgive me, sinner that I am, little father Tsar!

Forgive me, sinner that I am, little father Tsar! We have been ordered, whenever we catch sight of you, to cry out

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Catherine II Visits Potemkin at His House by Night

Catherine II visits Potemkin at his house by night. The Empress is dressed as a lady of the court, Potemkin as a monk. Flemish engraver Lambertus Antonius Claessens, after a drawing by Jacques Kuyper, 1800

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In 1671, rafts of hanged men were floated down the Volga as a lesson to sympathisers of Stepan Razin and supporters of the Cossack freedom; the dreadful sight, reported by travellers who saw the hanged drifting past, entered the world history of execution

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"The Unequal Marriage", Vasily Pukirev, 1862, and "Till Death Us Do Part", Edmund Blair Leighton, 1878

The Pre-Raphaelite Leighton (1852-1922) was so struck by the canvas of the Russian painter Vasily Pukirev (1832-1890) that he recreated its subject in his own picture, even giving the main characters a portrait likeness to the original