She was a patron of the arts, literature and education and acquired an art collection which now forms the basis of the Hermitage Museum. Catherine died in St Petersburg on 17 November 1796 and was ...

A monumental, quietly spectacular show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Siena: The Rise of Painting ... to show the Devil ...

Catherine, Lady St John of Bletso was buried in Westminster Abbey in March 1615. The monument had originally shown her two children, Oliver and Anne, kneeling beside her monument in St Michael's ...