Russian diamonds from the treasury of the Ottoman sultans will exhibit at Sotheby's

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Russian diamonds from the treasury of the Ottoman Sultans put up for Sotheby's

MOSCOW, November 8 - RIA Novosti, Maria Ganiyants. Diamonds are precious historical headset Sultans of the Ottoman Empire, which put up on November 15 at an auction at Sotheby's in Geneva, probably belonged to the wife of Peter the Great, the Russian Empress Catherine, told RIA Novosti, the press service of the auction.

As explained to the representatives of the auction house, although the set, consisting of necklaces, brooches and a pair of earrings, dates from the middle of the XIX century and is the present Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II's wife hedifa Egyptian, Princess Emin-Nasib Hanimefendi - nicknamed for his political influence sultana Walid - precious stones themselves belong to a different royal person - Catherine the First.

According to experts the auction, these diamonds were part of the gift of the Empress Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III, who was supposed to strengthen the peace talks after the battle on the Prut River in 1711, during which the Russian army, led by Peter the Great, was encircled.

Message with a proposal of peace to the governor of the Ottoman Empire was supported by gifts, including jewelry Catherine. However, Russia for the sake of this world had to give up not only with royal decorations, but also conquered in 1696, and the coast of Azov Sea of ​​Azov.

Although in terms of cut quality, according to experts, antique jewelry is much inferior to modern, they are valuable, above all, its origin, but in this case the provenance lots offered for auction in Geneva "Masterpieces of jewelry," perfect. Jewelry for 50 years, were in a private European collection, which came in 1963 after selling the heirs of the last set hedifa Egypt. A set of royal jewelry valued at $ 10 million.

Results on the same auction are more than 500 lots, including a huge diamond weighing 110.03 purest carat received for its bright yellow color of the name of Sun-Drop (estimate: 7.5-10 million dollars).

Sotheby's regularly in Geneva auction items of jewelry and luxury. The last record price set at auction - a pink diamond of 24.78 carats, was sold last year for 46.16 million dollars.

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