RUSSIAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1730
<ul><li>Empress Anna Ioannovna (1693-1740), in blue dress with yellow floral-embroidered bodice, red bows on her tiered lace sleeves, wearing the blue moiré sash of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Andrew, a miniature gold and pearl crown on her long dark hair.</li></ul>
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<td>Anonymous Russian painter <i>(1670s-1917)</i>
<p><small>Public domain image <i>(according to <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-RusEmpire" title="Template:PD-RusEmpire">PD-RusEmpire</a>)</i></small>
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circa 1730 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1730-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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