The museum was conceived by the Empress Farah Diba Pahlavi, wife of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, and opened to international acclaim in 1977. Just 15 months later, in the face of a massive popular ...

The Empress of Art: Catherine the Great and the Transformation of Russia Susan Jaques. Pegasus, $28.95 (480p) ISBN 978-1-60598-972-3 ...

Farah Pahlavi, née Diba, the exiled empress of Iran, has many a tale to tell. For now, she is sharing with the world the remarkable art collection she once amassed.

The collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art was to be shown in Berlin in December, ... The empress of Iran at the time, Farah Pahlavi, had initiated the collection in the 1970s, ...

How a Young Feminist Ended Up Helping to Build a National Art Collection for the Empress of Iran. During the 1970s, American curator Donna Stein moved to Tehran. By Madeleine Luckel.

Mortality and fertility become real issues when the Empress learns that unless she gets a shadow within three days, her father, the god, will turn her husband, the Emperor, to stone.

Married at 16 to the emperor of Austria, Elisabeth—nicknamed Sisi—was a reluctant empress, struggling with royal life and sympathetic to the democratic struggles of the people in her new nation.