Crown
Diamond Crown of Peter the Great, collection of gold, silver, diamonds, emeralds, rubies, tourmaline, sable, and enamel. One of two ritual crowns, each set with about 800 diamonds, made for 15-year-old Ivan V (1667 - 1696) and his younger half-brother Peter I (1672 - 1725) at the death of their brother, Tsar Fyodor Alekseyevich, in 1682. It is bedecked with a gold two-headed eagle, the Russian emblem, beneath a crown and rosettes of flowers. Large polished emeralds and rubies adorn the crown's central peak above the fur trimmings, and a large tourmaline stands beneath the diamond cross.
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