Potemkin’s Brilliants: A Note on Russia’s Role in the Early Modern Diamond Trade

Munro, George E.

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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

Date of Ingest

2025-01-30T11:49:58-06:00

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.

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ВИВЛIОθИКА

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

article

Language

eng

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.vivliofika.v12.1829

Copyright and License Information

• Copyright 2024 George E. Munro.
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/).

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