Monomakh's Cap
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Monomakh's Cap, also called the Golden Cap, is a chief relic of the Muscovite Grand Princes and Russian Tsars. It is a symbol-crown of the Russian autocracy, and is the oldest of the crowns currently
Russian regalia used prior to the Great Imperial Crown. The crown is styled after the Monomakh Cap, and was made for Tsar Michael Fyodorovich by Kremlin masters in 1627. The orb and sceptre are of Western-European origin[citation needed] and may have been given to Tsar Boris Godunov in 1604.
Vladimir II Monomakh
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Vladimir II Monomakh was Grand Prince of Kiev from 1113 to 1125. Prince Monomakh distinguished himself in 83 large-scale campaigns into Polovtsian lands, which made Polovtsians and their Khans fear hi
Monomakh's Cap
…Roman emperors, there arose a legend that the cap had been presented by the Byzantine emperor Constantine IX Monomachus (r. 1042–1055) to his grandson Vladimir Monomakh, the traditional founder in 1108 of the city of Vladimir and patrilineal ancestor of Ivan III. In the early part of the 16th century The Tale of the…
Seal of Vladimir II Monomakh
Portrait in the Tsarsky titulyarnik, 1672
The Testament of Vladimir Monomakh to Children, 1125. Lithography of 1836.
Monomakh giving his sword to his son Andrew, Prince of Volhynia - miniature from Radziwill Chronicle