16 October 2012

what they wore: an officer & an empress

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A great wind is blowing, 
and that gives you either imagination or a headache. -Catherine the Great




Pompeo Batoni detail of William Fermor, 1758












Imperial Russian Army Commander.
following the coup that brought Catherine II to the throne he was made Governor of Smolensk.






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