Potemkin’s Brilliants: A Note on Russia’s Role in the Early Modern Diamond Trade
Munro, George E.
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Title
Potemkin’s Brilliants: A Note on Russia’s Role in the Early Modern Diamond Trade
Author(s)
Munro, George E.
Issue Date
2024-12-27
Keyword(s)
Prince Grigorii Potemkin
Empress Catherine II
Tauride Palace
Count Grigorii Orlov
diamonds
Ivan Lazarevich Lazarev
Henry Hope
Richard Sutherland
Count Heinrich von Brühl
the Diamond Necklace Affair
Alessandro Cagliostro
Queen Marie Antoinette
Abstract
Prince Grigorii Aleksandrovich Potemkin’s love of diamonds is well established. This article discusses several episodes in his life involving those gems, exploring their sources from discovery in the earth (India and Brazil) to their coming into the prince’s possession, and also references two other cases of consequential diamond loving in eighteenth-century Europe. Diamonds could represent much more than simply expensive embellishments.
Publisher
ВИВЛIОθИКА
Type of Resource
text
Language
eng
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21900/j.vivliofika.v12.1829
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Copyright 2024 George E. Munro.
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