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Catherine Orchestrates Coup — Catherine II on a balcony of the Winter Palace on 9 July 1762, the day of the coup
Photo Credit: By Кестнер (Kaestner) Иоахим X. - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32951794
Catherine Orchestrates Coup Catherine II on a balcony of the Winter Palace on 9 July 1762, the day of the coup
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Catherine II the Great
Photo Credit: By Unknown - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61458969
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Paul I aged 46
Photo Credit: By Vladimir Borovikovsky - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86714941
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Flag of Imperial Russia
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Casanova's Escape — Illustration in Casanova's Histoire de ma fuite des prisons de la République de Venise qu'on appelle Les Plombs (Story of my Flight), 1787. From the German edition, 1788.
Photo Credit: By Engraver, 1787 - From original edition. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24654459
Casanova's Escape Illustration in Casanova's Histoire de ma fuite des prisons de la République de Venise qu'on appelle Les Plombs (Story of my Flight), 1787. From the German edition, 1788.
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Jeanne Marquise d’Urfé
Photo Credit: By Unknown - http://aulivrebleu.pagesperso-orange.fr/Urfe.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21814054
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"It's him. Place him in custody!" — Frontispiece illustration of Casanova's History of my Flight from the Prisons of the Republic of Venice. (1787, dated 1788)
Photo Credit: By Engraver, 1787 - From original edition, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24696005
"It's him. Place him in custody!" Frontispiece illustration of Casanova's History of my Flight from the Prisons of the Republic of Venice. (1787, dated 1788)
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Casanova
Photo Credit: By Johann Berka - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2337181
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Louis XVII of France
Photo Credit: By Alexander Kucharsky - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1056851
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Louis de France, dauphin
Photo Credit: By Maurice Quentin de La Tour - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12059972
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Decoration for a Masked Ball at Versailles — c.1860 from a 1764 plate
Photo Credit: By Charles Nicolas Cochin I - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24835105