For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress - who reigned from ...

Catherine's major influences on her adopted country were in expanding Russia's borders and continuing the process of Westernisation begun by Peter the Great ... presented the empress’s vision ...

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She has been by Catherine’s side since she first arrived in Russia as a young bride in a foreign land ... Taken from Catherine at birth and raised by his great aunt, Empress Elizabeth, and tutor, ...

Having enthroned the wife of Peter the Great and his mistress Catherine ... he escapes arrest and enters the boudoir of the Empress. Secrets of Palace coup d'etat. Russia, 18th century.

Caterina finds out that her husband Peter Tzar of Russia, is plotting to kill her. She sets Count Orlov free from prison, Peter's sworn enemy, becomes empress of Russia and leads the Cossacks army ...

The Orlov diamond from the Imperial Scepter of Russian Empress Catherine the Great, 17th century ... a significant collector of Imperial Russia-era art.

For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress — who reigned from 1762 to ... a significant collector of Imperial Russia-era art.