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Tsars and Knights

by M. B. Piotrovskiĭ

Straight from the State Hermitage?s world-famous medieval art collection and the Arsenal, we present an amazing tale of knights and ladies, of courtly love and of chivalric tournaments. Fascination with the Middle Ages was widespread throughout nineteenth-century Europe and the tsars shared in it to the full. In 1885, Tsar Alexander III snapped up a celebrated art collection including countless medieval objets d?art just as it was to be auctioned off in Paris. The entire French art world was in shock! Nicholas I, de ?chivalrous tsar?, created an Arsenal filled with unique suits of armour...

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