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Napoleon's sword and coronation necklace, together with the bicorne he wore at the Battle of Marengo, are in the Army Museum in Paris. I would remind you that in Moscow, the State Historical Museum displays Napoleon's sabre
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Note the dimensions: truly very piccolo
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The second funeral of Peter III, 2 December 1796. Unknown artist (in all likelihood Italian). The image takes the form of a scroll 15.8 m long and 0.75 m wide. Against the background of the procession there stand out the tsar's rod and sceptre and the
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Not far from Moscow stands one of the foremost Orthodox monasteries, Savvino-Storozhevsky, founded in 1398 by the Venerable Sabbas, the Wonderworker of Zvenigorod. Sabbas was one of the first disciples of the Venerable Sergius of Radonezh. Prince Yury Dmitrievich revered the Venerable Sabbas and extended his patronage to the
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Peter I's autograph drawing of a tricolour flag with the colours indicated, and of a flag with the diagonal Saint Andrew's cross, 1699. Collection of the Archive of Ancient Acts. The sketch of the three-striped white-blue-red flag is drawn on the reverse of
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The very first dial dates from the time of Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich, who presented the Monastery of Saint Savva with a tower clock brought from Smolensk. Unfortunately, neither the clockwork nor the dial itself has survived to our own day. As pre-revolutionary sources relate, the French, running riot in
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The Black Books of Hours of the late fifteenth century are the pride of the masters of Bruges. The principal patron of these masterpieces was the Burgundian court. Only a handful of books executed in this technique have survived to our day. To obtain the black pages, the parchment was
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More than four years have passed since Harold and Meghan left the royal family. Have you noticed how quiet and peaceful it has become? No grubby sensations, no vulgar scandals and, above all, it turns out that the institution of the British monarchy, with a history of more than a
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A rare photograph of Tsarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich, the future Emperor Nicholas II, in the uniform of the Life-Guards Ataman Regiment of His Imperial Highness the Heir Tsarevich. Saint Petersburg, Wesenberg & Co. studio, 1880s.
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😍😍😍😍 Italian princesses of the House of Savoy and the House of the Two Sicilies at the name-day celebration of the great-grandchildren of Princess Maria Gabriella of Savoy in Turin. From left to right: Vittoria of Savoy, Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Luisa of Savoy and Chiara of Bourbon-