Top 10: Jewels of Catherine the Great

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@WaKincaid 3 ай бұрын

My fav is the emerald crown

@RadioWhoPoo 3 ай бұрын

It is beautiful. Russia has many emerald mines, the richest being in the Ural mountains.

@CALLMESIR... 2 ай бұрын

I saw the Romanov exibit when it came to nyc. Absolutely incredible. Every item had a value until i came to the only priceless item in the collection. It was a very long 3 strand pearl necklace that catherine commissioned for herself. It took 22 years to complete as each pearl is perfectly matched. Not an easy feat. 6 divers also died in the time it took to produce.

@RadioWhoPoo 2 ай бұрын

Wow great detail!

@luciaroslingshaw2112 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for not only a video about jewelry, but also a history lesson.

@RadioWhoPoo 2 ай бұрын

Our pleasure! Please like and share :)

@Harvest1966 Ай бұрын

I have always loved the diamond bow necklace. However, my new favorite is the amethyst and diamond earrings. They are absolutely stunning!!!

@RadioWhoPoo Ай бұрын

They are beautiful!

@LJB103 3 ай бұрын

C. W. Post left his daughter Marjorie the Postum Cereal Company. She turned it into the General Foods Corp. She inherited a $20 million fortune (= $613,492,000 today). Excellent video.

@RadioWhoPoo 3 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

@SuperMan-xy8ui 3 ай бұрын

Marjorie Merriweather Post's estate in Washington, DC, is a treat to visit, it's by the National Zoo, she also donated jewelry to the Smithsonian, which is not far away. Post was married to the US Ambassador to Russia in the 1930s when Stalin began selling art treasures and other valuables seized from the Romanov family and former Russian aristocrats after the Russian Revolution.

@jhash9554 3 ай бұрын

I believe the Amber room was a gift!

@RadioWhoPoo 3 ай бұрын

Yes! Catherine II moved it to the Catherine Palace. It remained in Berlin until 1716, when it was given by the Prussian King Frederick William I to his ally Tsar Peter the Great of the Russian Empire. In Russia, the room was installed in the Catherine Palace. After expansion and several renovations, it covered more than 55 square metres (590 sq ft) and contained over 6 tonnes (13,000 lb) of amber.

@AnastasiaRomanov-w9x 3 ай бұрын

@@RadioWhoPooand then the Nazis stole it-purportedly.

@janiebiggs4523 2 ай бұрын

HBO did a great job on her!

@BobMarleyDAWN 2 ай бұрын

❤❤❤ yes i do

@pedilustig4630 3 ай бұрын

The amber room was not dismantled by the bolsheviks. During the Second World War, the Amber Room was captured by the Wehrmacht in 1941 and then installed in Königsberg Castle, East Prussia, today Kaliningrad. When the Red Army advanced, it was removed in 1944 by the German Army and has been lost ever since. BTW: the "ruby" on top of the czars crown is a spinell 😊

@RadioWhoPoo 3 ай бұрын

Rubies and spinels have very similar refractive indexes - around 1.7 - but due to their difference in clarity spinels are usually the more brilliant, fiery ones.