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Three crystal crowns topped with crosses in a display case with a chandelier in Moscow
A display case of crystal crowns. Moscow, present day
NB! · The East · Monarchies · Moscow · Mores · People
Empress Masako of Japan has visited the Moscow kindergarten she attended as a child, having lived in the city from the age of two because her father, Hisashi Owada, was a diplomat posted to the Soviet Union
The East · Art · Monarchies · Museums
The Sword of the Hospodar of the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, the First Ruler of United Romania, Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza
Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza forwarded arms from Russia to the Serbian government, needed to withstand the West and the Ottoman Empire. Despite the encroachments of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, backed by Austria and England, Cuza did not allow the convoy to be stopped. In recognition of Alexandru Cuza&
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John Paul II, Elizabeth II and Prince Philip
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George VI in a Kimono
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As Buckingham Palace makes perfectly clear, King Charles III is alive and well enough to read the Bible for a church service he was unable to attend in person
NB! · Aristocracy · Architecture · Art · Monarchies
Palazzo Vecchio, the apartments of Francesco I de' Medici (1541-1587), Grand Duke of Tuscany, Florence
Palazzo Vecchio, the apartments of Francesco I de' Medici (1541-1587), Grand Duke of Tuscany, Florence. Allegory of fire in the ceiling paintings and the instruction of the centaur Chiron by Apollo, god of Light
Architecture · Monarchies · Mores · Paris
Louis XIV, who nearly drowned in the Palais Royal fountain, gave the palace to his brother
As a child, Louis XIV nearly drowned in a fountain of the Palais-Royal, then known as the Palais-Cardinal, where Anne of Austria moved from the Louvre with her two sons after the death of Cardinal Richelieu. Broadly speaking, this unpleasant incident, together with the thoroughly distasteful impression left
Architecture · Monarchies · Museums · Mores · Paris
The gilded apartment of Madame du Barry on the upper floor of the Palace of Versailles
Louis XV came to the apartments of his favourite, Madame du Barry, by a private staircase. The corridor leading to the countess's twelve-room suite is so narrow that two people can barely pass in it. As for the furnishings, Madame du Barry saw to it that her
Architecture · The East · Monarchies · Heritage · Society
A cannonball fired by Ottoman troops during the siege of Nice in 1543 is still embedded in the wall of a residential building in the city
A cannonball fired by Ottoman troops during the siege of Nice in 1543 is still embedded in the wall of a residential building in the city. How did it come to be there? The Turkish siege of Nice was one of many operations of the Franco-Ottoman military alliance against
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