Imperial Crown of Russia

The imperial crown was the official crown of the Emperor of Russia until the fall of the monarchy 1917. Crowned the first time, Peter I the Great Emperor. The last time the crown for the Krönungszermonie of Nicholas II was used in 1896. It is now in the treasury of the Moscow Kremlin.

The great imperial crown was for the coronation of Catherine II the Great 1762 J. of the royal family's jewelers Posier and JF Loubier made ​​. Since it was completed too late, they came only at the coronation of Paul in 1796 to advantage. It has typical for an imperial crown form a miter with a crown strap in the middle and made ​​of silver, gold, pearls, diamonds 4936 ( 2858 carats) and weighs 1907 grams. In the middle of the crown strap a framed in silver gemugelter spinel sitting of 398.72 carats, which had acquired in 1676 by ​​the Chinese emperor Kangxi. There is a diamond cross on it. The bracket approach is obscured by frost on loop-like structures that move on to both sides in leaf-like ornaments and connect to the diamond-shaped ornaments of the two shells. The bracket for the parallel edges of the shells wear pearls. Both shells are divided in the center by a sheet-like ornament.

Until 1918 the crown, which is also called imperial crown Paul was in the crown chamber at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. The Hermitage has miniature models of the imperial crowns, which were made by Fabergé.

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