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

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Last week, as we were personal shopping with a client, we spotted a gorgeous pair of ballet flats. Their fairy dust look totally mesmerized us… because deep down, we are still the little girls dreaming of wonderful adventures we used to be. With their faded changing pastel colors they remembered me of Catherine Deneuve’s “color of […]

The Ballroom of Catherine Palace, Tsarskoe Selo, Russia. Source

The residence originated in 1717, when Catherine I of Russia engaged the German architect Johann-Friedrich Braunstein to construct a summer palace for her pleasure. In 1733, Empress Anna commissioned Mikhail Zemtsov and Andrei Kvasov to expand the Catherine Palace. Empress Elizabeth, however, found her mother's residence outdated and incommodious and in May 1752 asked her court architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli to demolish the old structure and replace it with a much grander edifice in a flamboyant Rococo style. Construction lasted for four years and on 30 July 1756 the architect presented the brand-new 325-meter-long palace to the Empress, her dazed courtiers and stupefied foreign ambassadors. During Elizabeth's lifetime, the palace was famed for its lavish exterior. More than 100 kilograms of gold were used to gild the sophisticated stucco façade and numerous statues erected on the roof. It was even rumoured that the palace's roof was constructed entirely of gold. In front of the palace a great formal garden was laid out. It centres on the azure-and-white Hermitage Pavilion near the lake, designed by Zemtsov in 1744, overhauled by Rastrelli in 1749 and formerly crowned by a grand gilded sculpture representing The Rape of Persephone. The interior of the pavilion featured dining tables with dumbwaiter mechanisms. The grand entrance to the palace is flanked by two massive "circumferences", also in the Rococo style. A delicate iron-cast grille separates the complex from the town of Tsarskoe Selo. Although the palace is popularly associated with Catherine the Great, she actually regarded its "whipped cream" architecture as old-fashioned. When she ascended the throne, a number of statues in the park were being covered with gold, in accordance with the last wish of Empress Elizabeth, yet the new monarch had all the works suspended upon being informed about the expense. In her memoirs she censured the reckless extravagance of her predecessor: "The palace was then being built, but it was the work of Penelope: what was done today, was destroyed tomorrow. That house has been pulled down six times to the foundation, then built up again till it was brought to its present state. The sum of a million six hundred thousand rubles was spent on the construction. Accounts exist to prove it; but besides this sum the Empress spent much money out of her own pocket on it, without ever counting". In order to gratify her passion for antique and Neoclassical art, Catherine employed the Scottish architect Charles Cameron who not only refurbished the interior of one wing in the Neo-Palladian style then in vogue, but also constructed the personal apartments of the Empress, a rather modest Greek Revival structure known as the Agate Rooms and situated to the left from the grand palace. Noted for their elaborate jasper decor, the rooms were designed so as to be connected to the Hanging Gardens, the Cold Baths, and the Cameron Gallery (still housing a collection of bronze statuary) - three Neoclassical edifices constructed to Cameron's designs. According to Catherine's wishes, many remarkable structures were erected for her amusement in the Catherine Park. These include the Dutch Admiralty, Creaking Pagoda, Chesme Column, Rumyantsev Obelisk, and Marble Bridge. Upon Catherine's death in 1796, the palace was abandoned in favour of the Pavlovsk Palace. Subsequent monarchs preferred to reside in the nearby Alexander Palace and, with only two exceptions, refrained from making new additions to the Catherine Palace, regarding it as a splendid monument to Elizabeth's wealth and Catherine II's glory. In 1817, Alexander I engaged Vasily Stasov to refurbish some interiors of his grandmother's residence in the Empire style. Twenty years later, the magnificent Stasov Staircase was constructed to replace the old circular staircase leading to the Palace Chapel. Unfortunately, most of Stasov's interiors - specifically those dating from the reign of Nicholas I - have not been restored after the destruction caused by the Germans during World War Two. When the German forces retreated after the siege of Leningrad, they had the residence intentionally destroyed,[1] leaving only the hollow shell of the palace behind. Prior to World War II, the Russian archivists managed to document a fair amount of the contents, which proved of great importance in reconstructing the palace. Although the largest part of the reconstruction was completed in time for the Tercentenary of St Petersburg in 2003, much work is still required to restore the palace to its former glory. In order to attract funds, the administration of the palace has leased the Grand Hall to such high-profile events as Elton John's concert for the elite audience in 2001 and the 2005 exclusive party which featured the likes of Bill Clinton, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, Naomi Campbell, and Sting.

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Fosse… anche l’unico canto libero di Ophelia lasciami sfumare così infiorata di mia follia in assolo del fato che mi trascina via... ~ Catherine La Rose© ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser was a German painter from Gnoien/Dresden. He began studying at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts under Leon Pohle and Paul Mohn. After initially spending three years in Dresden, he attended the Kunsthochschule in Karlsruhe and then the Académie Julian in Paris. After completing his studies Heyser devoted himself mainly to portraits and historical paintings. Among the portrayed were numerous prominent figures such as Prince Regent Albrecht of Braunschweig, Prince Albrecht of Prussia and Prince Johann Georg of Saxony. In addition, Heyser created genre pictures, whose representations were based on German poetry, for example, "The Fisherman" after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1886).

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Quelle come me di Catherine La Rose Quelle come me danzano petali e corolle dolce veleno scosceso sui fianchi delle notti folli...

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This has long been one of my favorite portraits and certainly my favorite portrait of the Empress - even though I'd never seen a decent ...

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Jeremy Mann(b. 1979) graduated from Ohio University with a Cum Laude degree in Fine Art-Painting. Afterward, he ventured out to California where he earned his Master's Degree with Valedictorian honors at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Since then, Mann has garnered substantial attention in the art world. Praised by critics and collectors alike, his work recently graced the cover of American Art Collector magazine. 'Non mi lascerò sedurre Di Solo pensiero... Ascolterò cieca le tue mani Pian piano come Un'arpa Sul Mio corpo vibrare...' ~ Catherine La Rose ~ 'Nel buio intanto.. stringo le palpebre il tuo fiato sul collo che alita ciecamente m'illumina e su un fremito di voce che ti cinge mio sciolgo finalmente un respiro...' ~ Catherine La Rose ~

David Tennant dons a white naval uniform very similar to the one worn by Gere in An Officer And A Gentleman for his new Shakespeare play Much Ado About Nothing.

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Yuri Krotov (Юрий Кротов) is a russian Impressionist Figurative painter. This renowned artist, emerging from the V.I. Sourikov, Moscow State Art Institute first surfaced in 1992 during an eminent sale of Russian paintings at the prestigious auction room ‘Drouot’ in Paris. Since then his reputation as a leading contemporary Russian artist has continued to grow. Krotov’s success at well-known auction rooms led him to be invited back regularly and is now in their permanent displays. He travelled and painted in France along the Cote D’Azur then on to Spain and Italy.

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Michael Klein is part of a group of American realist painters leading a movement hearkening back to the Renaissance and French Academic traditions.

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Fin da quando era bambina Catherine si chiedeva se mai avrebbe incontrato il principe azzurro, se mai sarebbe arrivato un bellissimo ragazzo su un possente cavallo bianco che l'avrebbe portata nel suo maestoso castello. Da bambina amava la sua vita al villaggio, ma crescendo aveva iniziato a chiedersi se fuori potesse esserci qualcosa di più bello. E se fosse arrivato portandola via con la forza? Cosa avrebbe fatto lei? Crediti per la copertina: @bookaddictedVi 🦋