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In Russia, court etiquette and, accordingly, court dress ceased to exist in 1917 due to the abolition of the monarchy. This style of clothing, especially the woman's dress is known for its long drape sleeves that resemble capes that have a point at the end of each and a sash, which was made popular in the modern world by the 1956 film Anastasia ...
A lady-in-waiting of the Imperial Russian Court (придворные дамы) was a woman of high aristocracy at the service of a woman of the Imperial family. They were organised according to the strict hierarchy of Peter the Great's table of ranks, following the woman's chin (rank) established on January 24, 1722.
State Ladies or Statsdame at the Russian Imperial Court were the second largest group of court ladies, after maids of honour. This position was officially established during the reign of Paul I, at the coronation of his wife [Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg). Before that women simply carried portraits of the empress.
A Russian court has sentenced a Russian-American woman to 12 years in prison for treason after she made a donation of just over $50 to a US-based charity supporting Ukraine. Ksenia Karelina, 33 ...
A lady-in-waiting (alternatively written lady in waiting) or court lady is a female personal assistant at a court, attending on a royal woman or a high-ranking noblewoman. [1] Historically, in Europe, a lady-in-waiting was often a noblewoman but of lower rank than the woman to whom she attended.
A Russian court on Thursday rejected an appeal by a Russian-American woman against her detention on a treason charge. The FSB security service said last week that Ksenia Karelina had been detained ...
Mary Hamilton awaiting execution, painting by Pavel Svedomsky (1904). Mary Hamilton, or Maria Danilovna Gamentova (died 14 March 1719), was the lady-in-waiting of Empress Catherine I of Russia and a royal mistress of Tsar Peter the Great of Russia.
A Russian court on Thursday convicted an artist and musician for swapping supermarket price tags with antiwar messages, sentencing her to seven years in prison in one of the highest-profile cases ...