For Catherine the Great ... embraced the notion of jewelry as art and collaborated with the top court jewelers on specially commissioned designs. As her collection grew, she dedicated an entire ...

Though it's located about 20 miles outside St. Petersburg proper, the Catherine Palace and Park certainly merits a visit by anyone in the area, especially enthusiasts of elaborate and fanciful ...

Catherine the Great founded the Hermitage Museum in 1764 as a place to house her private art collection. The main museum complex comprises six buildings, including the Winter Palace, which was the ...

Catherine's major influences on her adopted country were in expanding Russia's borders and continuing the process of Westernisation begun by Peter the Great ... acquired an art collection which ...