Year: 2024
Type: article
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
Author: George E. Munro
Institution: Virginia Commonwealth University
Language: English
Topic: Soviet and Russian History
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405792078