The orb of tsar alexei mikhailovich of constantinople according to the income and expenditure book of 1665 and the alphabetical one, this golden orb, decorated with green enamel and precious stones, was brought from constantinople in 1662 by the greek from constantinople ivan yuryev together with a diadem, made to order in constantinople "against the model of the diadem of the pious greek tsar constantine" (monomakh): "a golden apple with a crown with a lala and sapphire stone, which was brought to the great sovereign in 170 by the greek from constantinople ivan yuryev. The greek was given to him the sovereign's salary from the siberian prikaz and other goods, at a lower valuation of 7917 rubles. " in the inventory of 1702, its characteristics and appraisal are as follows: “a great-power apple, of greek workmanship, demountable gold with a stone, on it a cross. In the cross in the middle on one side there is a large diamond, about eight small diamonds; at the ends there are eight faceted sapphires; on the other side of the same cross in the middle there is a red faceted sapphire; at the ends of the cross there are eight diamonds, four faceted, — the price in stone, excluding gold, is one thousand one hundred rubles. Under the cross on the first half with a crown there are ninety-two smaller red sapphires, each worth six rubles; a total of five hundred seventy-six rubles. Four large red sapphires, each worth twenty rubles, a total of eighty rubles. Four large azure faceted sapphires, each worth fifty rubles, a total of two hundred rubles. In the crown there are eighteen large diamonds, each worth fifty rubles, a total of nine hundred rubles. Thirty-six medium diamonds, twenty rubles each, a stone, a total of seven hundred and twenty rubles. On the middle hoop, one hundred and thirty-six yakhont sparks, twenty each, three altyns, two dengi a spark, a total of ninety-five rubles, six altyns, four dengi. Thirty-six diamonds, sixty rubles each, a stone, a total of two thousand one hundred and sixty rubles. On the lower half with the tray, eighty-seven red yakhonts, four rubles each, a stone, a total of three hundred and forty-eight rubles. Four large red faceted yakhonts, fifteen rubles each, a stone, a total of sixty rubles. Four large azure yakhonts, thirty rubles each, a stone, a total of one hundred and twenty rubles. Fifty-two diamonds, thirteen rubles each, a diamond, a total of six hundred and seventy-six rubles. The gold in that whole apple is three pounds and a half pound, excluding the stone, and in zolotniks three hundred and thirty-six zolotniks at a ruble a zolotnik, a total of three hundred and thirty-six rubles, and the stone is supposed to weigh, excluding the gold, thirty-six zolotniks. The total price of the whole apple is seven thousand three hundred and fifty-three rubles six altyns, four denga. Under the apple of the great power there is a high, triangular, gilded silver pendant, weighing twenty pounds seventeen zolotniks, seven rubles at six altyns, four denga a pound, a total of one hundred and forty-one rubles nine altyns, one denga. " in the present state of the above-described state, its precious ornaments fully correspond to the calculation of 1702. Antiquities of the russian state (antiquities of the russian country), 1846-1853. Illustrator - ru: solntsev, fyodor grigorievich. Date: 1846—1853.
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