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Jewels! The Glitter of the Russian Court in the Hermitage Amsterdam website; Jewels! The Glitter of the Russian Court, catalogue by Olga Kosti︠u︡k, Ekaterina Abramova, Martijn Akkerman, Larisa Peshekhonova, Julia Plotnikova, 2019; Europe’s Museums Are Open, but the Public Isn’t Coming, by Nina Siegal, New York Times, 19 October 2020
The coat of arms of Russia derives from the earlier coat of arms of the Russian Empire.Though modified more than once since the reign of Ivan III (1462–1505), the current coat of arms is directly derived from its medieval original, with the double-headed eagle having Byzantine and earlier antecedents.
Jérémie Pauzié (French pronunciation: [ʒeʁemi pozje]; 6 December 1716 – 30 November 1779) was a Genevan diamond jeweler, artist and memoirist, known for his work for the Russian Imperial court and the Imperial Crown of Russia, which he created with the court's jeweler Georg Friedrich Ekart.
Until 1917 several ancient regalia served as heraldic crowns of various lands of the Russian Empire. Great State Coat of Arms of Russian Empire. Presented drawing of Artist Igor Barbe, 2006, "Greater Coat of Arms of the Russian Empire" 1882-1917. Disposition of crowns on Great State Coat of Arms: Great Imperial Crown - at the top, on imperial ...
He became a manufacturing jeweller of the Court by 1796 and functioned as official Appraiser to the Russian Imperial Court starting in 1823. [1] Bolin rapidly became the most important jeweller in St. Petersburg. At the peak of his activity, he supplied more to the Imperial Court than all other jewellers put together.
Even so, Bout, who first appeared on the CIA's radar amid reports of a shadowy Russian citizen trading arms in Africa, was by the turn of the millennium one of the most wanted men in the world.
A diamond necklace that has been worn at two British coronations, and is thought to have stones from the infamous necklace at the heart of a Marie-Antoinette scandal, is expected to fetch up to $2 ...
The creation of this crown, like the previous one, was entrusted to a group of court jewelers, headed by master Samson Larionov . It was topped with a cross of nine “quadrangular” diamonds of Greek cut, fixed on a huge lal (as red and pink spinels and tourmalines were called in Russia at that time) worth 60 thousand rubles - most likely the ...