A rare nine-piece jewelry set once belonging to Stephanie de Beauharnais, Grand Duchess of Baden and the adoptive daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte, smashed auction estimates Wednesday to sell for 1. ...

Smuggled out of Russia during the 1917 revolution, the set of royal baubles sold for $883,641 at Sotheby’s in Geneva on November 10. The bi-annual jewelry sale offered a sapphire and diamond ...

First we led grand duchess Elizabeth (Ella) up to the mine. After throwing her down the shaft, we heard her struggling in the water for some time. We pushed the nun lay-sister Varvara ...

The Grand Duchess died in 1920, but her legacy lives on through her jewels (some, including the Vladimir tiara, are now owned by Queen Elizabeth II) and her enduring influence as one of Cartier ...

The trio is expected to garner as much as 480,000 francs ($525,800). “She was the wife of Grand Duke Vladimir, the son of the tsar, and she was really passionate about jewelry.

The Duchess left St. Petersburg with only a few 'daytime jewels' and hid the real treasures. Grand Duchess Vladimir was no wallflower; in fact she was known as the grandest of the grand duchesses ...