The Romance of An Empress : Catherine Ii. of Russia
The Romance of An Empress : Catherine Ii. of Russia
Kazimierz Waliszewski
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... I said she was short ; yet on her reception days, her head held high, her eagle glance, the composure that comes of the habit of command, all in her had such majesty that she seemed to me the queen of the world. She wore on these occasions the insignia of three orders, and her costume was simple and dignified. It consisted in a tunic of muslin embroidered Z' with gold, the ample sleeves folded across in the Asiatic style. Above this tunic was a dolman of red velvet with very short sleeves. ...The bonnet that framed in her white hair was not decked with ribbons, but with diamonds of the greatest beauty. ' Catherine had early adopted the habit of holding her head very high in public, and she kept it all her life. Aided by her prestige, this gave her an effect of height that deceived even observers like Richardson. The art of niise en scene, in which she was incomparable, has re- mained a tradition at the court of Russia. A court lady at Vienna once gave us her impressions of the arrival of the Emperor Nicholas in that 212 CATHERINE 11.
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