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This years topic at the 19th Tsarskoye Selo Conference will be Purveyors of the Imperial Court. The conference will be held at the Catherine Palace from November 25-27, 2013.
Some of the suppliers to the Court of Nicholas II are well known, one of the most famous being Carl Faberge.
It is interesting to note that between 1912-1915 more than 20% of the Court suppliers were foreign.
For example, in 1912 almost 12% of all foreign suppliers were in Darmstadt (home of the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna), the same amount for Copenhagen (home of the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, the mother of Emperor Nicholas II), but only 8% - Berlin, 7% - of Frankfurt-am-Main, and less than 2% - in Munich.
More than 50% of the suppliers of the Imperial Court were manufacturers of food and beverages, clothing and footwear, jewelry and luxury items, furniture, dishes, perfume.
The rest were made up of coaches and car suppliers, stationery, books, and various tools and devices, pharmaceutical goods, flowers and exotic plants.
Among the suppliers were also hairdressers, photographers, painters, sculptors.
The Tsarskoye Selo Palace Museum Preserve is currently accepting applications and papers from participants. The conference will be held in Russian only.
© Paul Gilbert A Royal Russia. 27 March, 2013
Updated: Wednesday, 27 March 2013 10:16 AM EDT
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