The Battle of Leuthen by Carl Röchling. Connell O'Donnell fought at Leuthen and at Hochkirchen, where he 'contributed to the ...

A sculpture of Empress Maria Theresa made out of white Carrara marble used to decorate the Danube embankment. The monument by local artist Ján Fadrus was unveiled in 1897. Born in Bratislava ...

Born Baroness Maria Anna Mayr von Melnhof in Salzburg, Austria in 1919, ‘Marianne’ as she was known was the eldest of Baron Froedrich Mayr von Melnhof and Countess Maria Anna von Meran's nine children ...

Maria Theresa herself preferred as neighbours the Ottoman empire – ‘our good Turks’ – to those she called ‘treacherous Slavs’. Unlike her descendant Franz Joseph, who took Bosnia from the Ottoman ...

In a desperate attempt to secure his lineage, Maria Theresa’s father Charles VI overturned a law stating that the late Joseph I’s (Charles’ elder brother) children would be natural inheritors to the ...

Maria Theresa of Austria even placed the weight of her youngest son Maximilian Francis in gold on the altar there. It wasn’t until Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans and also ruler of Bohemia, Croatia, ...

In one of its resplendent rooms, adorned with patterned red fabric wallpaper and a prominently displayed portrait of Empress Maria Theresa, Alexander Van der Bellen, Austria’s president, was ...

Antoine Pesne Portrait of a girl, probably Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, in a silver dress and red velvet robe, with a dog and a monkey 173.7 x 94.9 cm. (68.4 x 37.4 in.) close Medium oil on ...

Dates: November 13 – December 31 Address: Maria-Theresien-Platz, 1010 Vienna, Austria Where to stay nearby: Hotel Bristol, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Vienna (a 9-minute walk away) ...

Today, Czech crystal chandeliers can be found in the palaces of French King Louis XV, Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, and Russian Empress Elizabeth." ...

We skipped over some Habsburgs (sorry), and went to the tomb holding Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, Franz Stefan I, Holy Roman Emperor. Empress Maria Theresa (who died in 1780) and her o f ...