Posted by Dmitry on January 8, 2012, 12:44 am, in reply to "Re: Dowager Tsarina"
I have little context for this list, but would suggest that it was part of an inventory taken after the revolution and would be those items that were taken from the Anichkov to Moscow. The list is certainly post 1914, or at least updated at that time. There is a little part of me that believes that the inventory was done in 1909 with later notations.
There appear to be over 350 entries on the whole list, of which I have only part. It is listed as Crown Jewels in their present state, found in the apartments of Her Majesty the Empress Maria Feodorovna" and reference an old book of numbers which has been revised with a number of pieces being returned to the treasury in 1914, but well before the breakout of the war.
I don't know if they were subsequently returned to HIM, or what.
One of those mysteries, but it is a tantalizing record of brooches, earrings, pins, elements, etc.
I wish I could provide more information.
--Previous Message-- : Dmitry, I agree. : Wonderful wealth of information and : knowledge Thankyou so much : : --Previous Message-- : : Dmitry - that is great information. Thank : you so very much. : : Am I right in thinking these jewels : travelled with Tsarina Marie Feodorovna to : the Crimea and then to England? : : Edit: ....... and then with her to Denmark ? : : I'm just trying to be sure I keep proper : notes of this. : : : --Previous Message-- : the list I have is rather sketchy in terms : of : descriptions, but very good in terms of : weights and numbers of stones. : : I can identify that HIM held onto the triple : strand of pearls with the horseshoe diamond : clasps, the large sapphire necklace with the : 110ct centre cabuchon, one of the pair of : four-row bracelets in diamonds, diadem of : Indian Brilliants (returned to HIM's Cabinet : January 23, 1914, a diadem of pearls, and I : beleive at least one of the strands of : pearls from the Treasury. My apologies that : I cannot be more precise than that. : : --Previous Message-- : I am trying to locate the jewellery from the : Imperial collection which was in the : possession of the Dowager Empress. I cannot : remember for the life of me if this necklace : and/or tiara were at the Anichkov at the : time the inventory was made. It was not part : of the jewellery with which HIM left Russia. : I know that there were some considerable : amounts of jewellery from the Treasury in : her possession at the time of the : Revolution. Once I find that list, I will : know a little better. It is here : somewhere.... : : : : : :
on January 8, 2012, 12:44 am, in reply to "