For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress - who reigned ... she also embraced the notion of jewelry as art and collaborated with the ...

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.

Often referred to as the “Russian Hamlet”, Paul is a tortured figure who struggles to cope with his father’s death and his mother’s new lovers. Taken from Catherine at birth and raised by his great ...

For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress — who reigned from 1762 to ... she also embraced the notion of jewelry as art and collaborated with ...