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Portrait of Empress Catherine II (1729-1796 ... Read on to find out where Catherine the Great’s royal gems ended up after her death in 1796. The Imperial Crown of Catherine II the Great.

In 1745, after being received into the Russian Orthodox Church, and changing her name to Catherine, she married Grand Duke Peter, grandson of Peter the Great and heir to the Russian throne.

National Geographic Icons of Power Empress of Ambition documents the life and reign of Russias Catherine the Great widely considered one of the most controversial ...

For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress - who reigned from 1762 to 1796 after overthrowing her own husband, Peter III - understood that ...

For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress — who reigned from 1762 to 1796 after overthrowing her own husband, Peter III — understood that ...