Russian nobility - Wikipedia
WEBLearn about the origins, development, and decline of the Russian nobility, or dvoryanstvo, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. Explore how the nobility adopted Western fashions, ideals, and political ideas, and how they challenged the autocratic regime.
Category : Portraits by Jean-Laurent Mosnier (Russian nobility)
WEBMedia in category "Portraits by Jean-Laurent Mosnier (Russian nobility)" The following 19 files are in this category, out of 19 total. Tatyana Yusupova Mosnier.jpg 350 × 426; 46 KB
Category : Russian nobility by Winterhalter - Wikimedia
WEBPortrait paintings by Franz Xaver Winterhalter; Foreign portraits of Russian nobility by artist
WEBThis article is an attempt to fill an obvious lacuna in historiography by drawing a portrait of the marshals as a provincial elite deeply involved in shaping the destiny of rural Russia. In the 1785 Charter of the Nobility Catherine II endowed the institution of provincial noble assemblies with a variety of powers.
Portrait of an Elite: Russian Marshals of the Nobility, 1861-1917
WEBJan 27, 2017 · For Turgenev and many contemporaries, the marshal's studied pomposity and ostentatious cosmopolitanism signified the overweening social pretension and thin veneer of Westernism which constituted the worst features of the Russian nobility.
Category : Foreign portraits of Russian nobility by artist
WEBPortrait paintings by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (Russian nobility) (6 C, 62 F)
WEBThis article is an attempt to fill an obvious lacuna in historiography by drawing a portrait of the marshals as a provincial elite deeply involved in shaping the destiny of rural Russia. In the 1785 Charter of the Nobility Catherine II endowed the institution of provincial noble assemblies with a variety of powers.
The Lost Generation: The End of the Russian Aristocracy - The …
WEBDec 12, 2012 · Douglas Smith's book chronicles the fate of the nobility from the revolution to the Stalin era, using three families as examples. He shows how the former people supported the revolution, suffered...
Portrait of an Elite: Russian Marshals of the Nobility, 1861-1917
WEBIn his short sketch, “Hamlet of the Shchigrovsky District,” Ivan Turgenev imagined the provincial marshal of the nobility to be “a man of unrestrained and dignified expression entirely in keeping with his starched shirt-front, infinitely broad waistcoat, and round snuffbox full of French tobacco.”
Jewels! The Glitter of the Russian Court - Wikipedia
WEBJewels! The Glitter of the Russian Court (Dutch: Juwelen! Schitteren aan het Russische Hof) was the second jubileum exhibition in Amsterdam by the H'ART Museum, focussed on the personal taste for luxury by Russian nobility.