Pearl kokoshnik

Maria Vladimirovna wearing her pearl kokoshnik (Photo: FRED DUFOUR/AFP/Getty Images) When we talk about Russian imperial jewels here, we're usually talking about pieces that were lost or were acquired by other royals. But some of the

Exciting news! The Albion Art Institute has acquired the Russian Aquamarine Kokoshnik Tiara! It’s not clear which member of the family the tiara originally belonged to but it’s most often said to have...

Above: Tiara, likely created by the court jeweller Bolin for Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia. Image from A. E. Fersman's catalog "Diamond Fund of the USSR," published around 1924-26, via Elena Horvathova on LiveJournal (http://eho-2013.livejournal.com/62382.html). Below: Portrait of Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna, by Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Russia, 1896, Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, via Wikimedia Commons.

Maria Vladimirovna wearing her pearl kokoshnik (Photo: FRED DUFOUR/AFP/Getty Images) When we talk about Russian imperial jewels here, we're usually talking about pieces that were lost or were acquired by other royals. But some of the

Imelda Marcos ;In the Book "Jewels of the Tsars" by Prince Michael of Greece, he says and I quote "Tiara of pearls and diamonds made for Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Nicholas I, by the Swedish jeweler Bolin in 1843. was sold after the Revolution, when it was bought by the Duke of Marlborough for his wife Gladys, who later sold it in her turn. On this occasion it was bought by Imelda Marcos.

the 1908 Cartier diademe russe exhibited in Paris