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Though, in the respectable Nabokov family, things turned out melodramatic enough even without "Poor Nastya": Vladimir Nabokov's grandmother was married to his grandfather from the age of 15 and called her husband "a monkey with cold feet", at the time of
Though, in the respectable Nabokov family, things turned out melodramatic enough even without "Poor Nastya": Vladimir Nabokov's grandmother was married to his grandfather from the age of 15 and called her husband "a monkey with cold feet", while at the time of the wedding
Faith · The East · Monarchies · People · Humour
Nicholas II had a dragon tattooed on his forearm during his 1891 journey to Japan
It is well known that in 1891 Nicholas II travelled in Japan and had a dragon tattooed on his forearm. So what are we to make of it: holy relics with a dragon tattoo?
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Diamonds from Ganina Yama are kept in the Tsar's Museum in Yekaterinburg
Diamonds found at the site where the bodies of the Romanovs were desecrated at Ganina Yama are held in the Tsar's Museum in Yekaterinburg. The fate of almost 8 kilograms of family jewels remains a mystery to this day.
Faith · Monarchies · Heritage
The stone erected at the place where the mutilated remains of the imperial family were found bears an Old Testament quotation from the Book of Amos: "I will not spare him, because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime"
The stone erected at the place where the mutilated remains of the imperial family were found bears an Old Testament quotation from the Book of Amos: "I will not spare him, because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime". The reference is to an
Aristocracy · Archaeology · Faith · Monarchies
Search for the Romanovs' resting place at Ganina Yama after Prince Golitsyn's 1976 trip
In 1976 Prince Golitsyn attempted to reconstruct the picture of the murder of the Imperial Family and visited Yekaterinburg. But finding the mines into which the bodies of the Romanovs had been thrown proved far from easy. Local residents refused to say where the iron mines were situated, to which
Faith · Monarchies · Observations · Heritage
Romanov enkolpion with relics of 40 saints, given in 2002 to a church in Yekaterinburg
In 2002 this golden enkolpion of the House of Romanov, containing particles of the relics of 40 saints, was transferred to the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord at Uktus in Yekaterinburg. The cross had been kept for decades in a priestly family. The relic was presented to the
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13 June 1803: Britain Resumes Hostilities against France
13 June 1803: Britain resumed hostilities against France. The full-bodied Britannia lashes Napoleon's bloodied backside: take this and that, and be warned, provoke me no more
NB! · Monarchies · Paris · People
Portrait of the Dauphin Louis Charles with a dog and his death in the Temple prison in 1795
The Dauphin of France, Louis Charles, with his little dog. The unhappy child died in the Temple prison on 8 June 1795 as a result of cruel treatment. He was only 10
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A Long-Awaited Reunion!
A long-awaited reunion! A copy of the finger recently discovered in the Louvre is being fitted to the hand of the Emperor Constantine in the Capitoline Museums
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An amusing photograph of Labour Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald looking thoroughly ill at ease in court dress
An amusing photograph of Labour Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald looking thoroughly ill at ease in court dress. Note in particular those wonderful little feet
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Princess Olga Paley, the morganatic wife of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich, sixth son of Alexander II, has an interesting recollection of how, at the end of 1917, the Bolsheviks came to requisition her palace at Tsarskoye Selo
Princess Olga Paley, the morganatic wife of Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich, sixth son of Alexander II, has an interesting recollection of how, at the end of 1917, the Bolsheviks came to requisition her palace at Tsarskoye Selo. The Soviet had resolved to occupy the palace for want of premises. Paley