Images Dated 27th May 2010

Portrait of the Vice-Chancellor Prince Alexander Kurakin, 1797. Artist: Elisabeth Louise Vigee-LeBrun

Portrait of the Vice-Chancellor Prince Alexander Kurakin, 1797. Prince Alexander Borisovich Kurakin (1752-1818) was a Russian statesman and diplomat. During the reign of Tsar Alexander I he served as Russian Ambassador to France. He delivered several warnings to the tsar of the impending French invasion of Russia, which took place in 1812. Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St Petersburg

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Steel, gold and silver helmet with Deesis, Byzantine, 13th century. Artist: Byzantine Master

Steel, gold and silver helmet with Deesis, Byzantine, 13th century. In Byzantine and later Eastern Orthodox art, the Deesis, is a representation of Christ in Majesty or Christ Pantocrator: enthroned, carrying a book, and flanked by the Virgin Mary and St John the Baptist, sometimes together with other saints and angels. Found in the collection of the State Armoury Chamber in the Kremlin, Moscow

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Gilded silver staurothek (Cross reliquary), Byzantine, 12th century. Artist: Byzantine Master

Gilded silver staurothek (Cross reliquary), Byzantine, 12th century. Found in the collection of the State Armoury Chamber in the Kremlin, Moscow

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