Potemkin’s Brilliants: A Note on Russia’s Role in the Early Modern Diamond Trade

Prince Grigorii Aleksandrovich Potemkin’s love of diamonds is well established. This article discusses several episodes in his life involving those gems, exploring their sources from discovery in the earth (India and Brazil) to their coming into the prince’s possession, and also references two othe...

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Main Author: George E. Munro
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Illinois Open Publishing Network 2025-05-01
Series:Вивліоѳика
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Online Access:https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/vivliofika/article/view/1829
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