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In March 1814 Russian troops took Paris
Anton Delvig, Pushkin's schoolfellow, wrote a poem "On the Capture of Paris", printed in June 1814 in the "Vestnik Evropy" [Herald of Europe]. It contains these lines about Alexander I: "And the conqueror of Paris, tender father to the Russians, forgetting the ashes
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Little Lilibet, the future Queen Elizabeth II, smiles at her grandfather, King George V, while out walking with her grandmother, Queen Mary of Teck, in 1929
Monarchies · Observations · Humour
British scientists calculate that Wales occupies zero area on the flag of the United Kingdom
British scientists have done the sums. The area of the flag of Great Britain that symbolically represents Wales is equal to zero. This could be remedied by the green stripe or the dragon from the Welsh flag, or by the yellow cross of St David, the patron saint of Wales,
Books · Monarchies · Mores · Ethnography
Engelhardt, in his book A Complete School of Hunting Fur and Feather in All Zones of Russia, notes that the Grand Dukes went hunting in bast shoes, since there is no handier or more practical footwear for the forest in winter: snow gets into them as easil
Architecture · Faith · Monarchies · Heritage · Saint Petersburg
Church at Borki near Kharkiv built in memory of the rescue of Alexander III's family in 1888
Near Kharkiv, at the site of the terrorist derailment of Emperor Alexander III's train, returning from the Crimea on 17 October 1888, from which he escaped with his entire family, a hermitage was founded, and in 1894 a magnificent church was built. The Church of Christ the Saviour
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Wind blows up the skirt of Queen Elizabeth II in a black-and-white photograph
Queen Elizabeth II. The wind lifts her skirt
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Camilla Parker Bowles among the guests at the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana
Camilla Parker Bowles in a white dress and veiled hat at the wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana. One really does have to be quite something to manage that…
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I plunge into the abyss of contexts surrounding the new portrait of King Charles
Aristocracy · Faith · Monarchies · Moscow
On 14 May 1896, Nicholas II was crowned
On 14 May 1896, Nicholas II was crowned. He was to be allotted 22 years and 3 months on the throne of Russia. The sacrament of the holy coronation took place in the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin and lasted five hours. From the Dormition Cathedral the imperial couple
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The First Official Portrait of King Charles III Says a Great Deal
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Dress codes and the steady taste of King Philip of Spain, who was dressed by Jaime Gallo
In one interview I was asked about my attitude to dress codes. In truth, mine is simple: irrespective of the whims of event organisers, I wear whatever I consider appropriate and whatever I happen to have to hand. Remember how Anna Wintour dressed for the recent Met Gala? In a