Your Highness`s necklace

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Ozherel`e Svetleishego

Plemiannitsy Kniazia Potemkina: Biograficheskie Khroniki

[ Your Highness`s necklace : Nieces of Prince Potemkin: Biographical chronicles]

Moscow: EKSMO, 2007
606 p Images

Serie: Zhenskie siluety iz proshlogo
Hardcover. 14 x 21 cm
ISBN: 9785699230907
Language: Russian

This book is about the personal life and family of Prince Grigorii Potemkin, his sisters, nieces and nephews, and their families: Aleksandra, Varvara and Ekaterina Engel`gardt (later Branitskaia, Golitsyna, Skavronskaia), Elizaveta Vorontsova; Aleksandra and Ekaterina Samoilovs. In the court of Catherine the Great these families were radiant with youth and beauty, and later were connected by ties of friendship and family with many Russian celebrities: G. Derzhavin, N. Raevskii, P. Bagration, Decembrists, I. Ktylov, A. Pushkin. This book is based on numerous historical sources and illustrated with portraits of the main characters.

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» Current Topics » Gender Studies

» History: General Works and Philosophy of History » Imperial Russia: 17th to the 19th Centuries

» Who is Who / Personalities/Biographies » Miscellaneous

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