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If Instagram was around during the time of the tsars, their royal accounts would have no doubt been plastered with selfies given their obsession with portraits. Here are a number of both ceremonial and informal artworks immortalizing Russia’s imperials, created by some of the country’s finest painters.

Hulu's "The Great" offers an irreverent, ahistorical take on the Russian empress' life. This is the real history behind the period comedy

Mouawad Co-Guardian Fred Mouawad commissioned Reena to paint the 179-carat 'Romanovs' rough diamond painting. Reena’s painting captures the Russian origin of the rough diamond and celebrate this one-of-its-kind wondrous miracle of nature.

Catherine II (1729-1796), Empress of Russia 1762-1796, in white silk dress and ermine cloak, drop pearl pendant at corsage, laurel wreath and small diamond crown in her upswept powdered long hair falling over her left shoulder, wearing the chain and breast star of the Russian Order of St. Andrew, and the sash and breast star of the Russian Order of St. George

Catherine II (the Great), Empress of Russia;

CLAUDE-CATHERINE DE CLERMONT or Catherine de Medicis.

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If she was nicknamed “the Black Queen”, it is because Catherine de Medici paid great attention to esotericism and astrology.

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Monument to Catherine the Great in Zerbst

Elisabeth painted by François Clouet in 1571. Considered as a great beauty and a very intellectual woman, Elisabeth was married off to ...

Deceptively happy portrait of Catherine and Peter with their son Paul.

Anonymous Grand Duchess Catherine Alexeyevna - Category:Portraits of Catherine II as Grand Duchess - Wikimedia Commons

💬 0 🔁 96 ❤️ 275 · Adrienne Byrne as Catherine of Aragon and Jason Kemp as Prince Arthur in The Shadow of the Tower (1972), Episode 13: The King Without a Face edited by me; apologies for any rem…

When the heads of the G20 nations gathered in London in 2009 to grapple with the economic crisis, angry British protestors demonstrated in front of the Bank of England … by taking tea. Their concern was not bloated bankers’ bonuses, the lending crisis, or the mortgage scandal. To them, the disappearance of time for a nice cuppa represented everything that is wrong with modern capitalism.

Earrings and tiara belonging to Catherine the Great.

Jeweled walking-stick of Empress Catherine the Great of Russia. The monogram "E" is for Ekaterina, first letter of Catherine's name in Cyrillic, the Russian alphabet. c. 1780, St. Petersburg. The Hermitage Museum.

Catherine of Aragon Greeting Card