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Catherine II’s “Nakaz” as a portrait of the empress and its article on customs duties
I continue reading the draft of Catherine's Code, her "Instruction" of 22 chapters and 655 articles, that is, the direct guide for the deputies in drawing up the principal body of laws of the Russian Empire, a new Code to replace the "Sobornoye Ulozhenie"
Aristocracy · Cinema · Monarchies · Paris · Society Pages
Prince Jean-Christophe Louis Ferdinand Albéric Napoléon with his wife, Princess Olympia, née Countess von Arco-Zinneberg, at the premiere of Ridley Scott's "Napoleon"
Jean-Christophe is a direct male-line descendant of Joseph, the eldest of Napoleon's brothers. Napoleon's only legitimate son, Napoleon II, died young and childless, while the numerous progeny of Napoleon's second son, the illegitimate Count Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, cannot lay claim to the
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An authentic dress of Empress Josephine and her portraits in a similar guise
NB! · London · Monarchies · Observations · People
I Had Never Noticed This Striking Resemblance Between Elizabeth II and Her Grandmother Mary of Teck
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Catherine II's Instruction to the Commission on the success of Peter the Great's reforms
Russia Is a European Power. The proof of this is as follows. The changes that Peter the Great undertook in Russia met with the greater success because the manners prevailing at that time were wholly unsuited to the climate, having been brought to us by the intermingling of various peoples
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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry furious over new scene from Family Guy in which they sit by a swimming pool complaining that they must do yet another sponsored social media post for $250,000
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Two Kings: Fifty-Six-Year-Old George VI and Three-Year-Old Charles III
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Charles III in the courtyard of Buckingham Palace after the State Opening of Parliament in 2023, for the first time as king, and in 1952 with Elizabeth II, who opened Parliament for the first time as queen
Archive · Monarchies · Saint Petersburg · Humour
The Emperor sent two letters to Saint Petersburg and received no reply
Napoleon Sent Two Letters to Saint Petersburg and Received No Reply. Worse than importunate people are only importunate emperors
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Holbein exhibition opens at Buckingham Palace on 10 November, with more than 100 works by the royal painter on show
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How Catherine the Great invited Diderot to Russia and bought his library
Within ten days of Catherine II's accession to the throne, she had invited Denis Diderot to come to Russia. She even proposed that he move the publication of the "Encyclopédie", which kept running into bans in France, to Riga or Saint Petersburg. But Diderot did not