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42 reactions |  The Imperial State Crown is worn by The Monarch to and from their #Coronation. It is set jewels including 2868 diamonds and a further 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds and 269 pearls. Read more about the Crown here ahead of the Coronation: www.thecrownchronicles.co.uk/jewels-and-jewellery/tell-me-about-the-imperial-state-crown/ | The Crown Chronicles | Facebook

Royal jewelry ofthe Russian Royal family the Romanov Most of the imperial jewels were either taken out of the country or sold at auctions after the Bolshevik Revolution, but some of them can still be seen on display in Moscow. We do not know exactly how large the Romanov family's jewelry collection was since all the information we have comes from the fraction of it that fell into the Bolsheviks' hands after the 1917 revolution. And even those items did not resurface straight away. The royal trea

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