The imperial family's casket contained many tiaras and tiaras with huge diamonds and emeralds. What happened to them after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution? This photo shows the Romanovs' treasures found by Bolsheviks and prepared for sale. The jewelry that members of the Romanov family did not manage to take abroad after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution were sold at auctions by the Bolsheviks, leaving only a few particularly valuable pieces for exhibition at the Diamond Fund.
Among them, for example, was Maria Feodorovna's wedding crown from the early 19th century - it was kept in Russia because of its priceless pink diamond. Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna in this tiara during her wedding, 1884. The Romanov tiaras were notable for the fact that, for the most part, they had the shape of a Russian ‘kokoshnik’ (and European monarchs began to make tiaras in their image).
They were made to order by jewelry firms Cartier, Bolin and Boucheron. ( Read about the fate of some tiaras, which are still kept abroad here.) But, traces of these jewelry pieces are lost.
1. Large diamond tiara At the opening of the first session of the State Duma in 1906, Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna was photographed wearing this very tiara. It was made in the early 1830s for another empress, the wife of Nicholas I, also Alexandra Feodorovna.
The jeweler was presumably Gottlieb Ernst Jahn, who was commissioned to remake the pearl tiara of Empress Maria Feodorovna, the mother of Nicholas I. The tiara was de.
