Princess Dashkova led research institutes, wrote plays and music, and embarked on a Grand Tour of 18th-century Europe E.R. Zarevich Princess Dashkova (center) exchanged letters with Benjamin Franklin ...
For Catherine the Great, jewelry was about much more than adornment. The formidable Russian empress — who reigned from 1762 to 1796 after overthrowing her own husband, Peter III — understood that ...