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Carol Strickland
“Here’s her story, a tale of the bear-keeper’s daughter and the Empire: what happened to her and what happened because of her.”
― Carol Strickland, The Eagle and the Swan
tags: byzantine-empire, courtesan, dances, desire, history, imperial-palaces, manuscript, ruins, secrets, swan-dancer
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Nancy Rubin Stuart
“By 1937 Soviet standards, mementos of Russian history before the 1917 revolution were irrelevant. Even the suggestion that china, jewelry, or furniture created for the imperial palaces of the tsars was worth more than its weight in gold might be construed as anti-Soviet propaganda.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post
tags: anti-soviet-propaganda, art-collection, imperial-palaces, marjorie-merriweather-post, russian-art, russian-china, russian-history, soviet-russian, soviet-union, tsars
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