I found this information; it turns out there originally wasn’t a pointed tip on the real crown.
Few descriptions of Monomakh’s Cap have survived to this day. Monomakh’s Cap is a unique piece of jewelry from the late 13th – early 14th centuries. Its dome is composed of eight gold plates, covered with the finest, masterfully executed complex pattern… Initially, the cap had pearl and gold pendants, later it was trimmed with sable fur, crowned with a gold hemispherical engraved finial with a cross. And later still, they added precious stones – rubies, emeralds, sapphires, tourmalines, and large pearls.
Quote from Lana_s_Kavkaza:
…it turns out there originally wasn’t a pointed tip on the real crown.
It’s unlikely the breeders of the variety went that deep into historical research for the name. Most likely, they named it precisely after the visual example kept in the Kremlin Armory, which everyone pictures in their minds.
Quote from Nataly:
It’s unlikely the breeders of the variety went that deep…
I agree, the name could have been given just randomly.
Greenhouse. To 3 stems. It was grown from the top of an overgrown seedling, cut late and rooted in water (a delay of about 25 days). The bush is quite strong, the stems get thick. Responds to feeding. The density of the bush at 3 stems at the bottom is high ~ 80%. The width of the bush on 1 stem is ~ 40 …50 cm. The fruits are large red, look like a “cap” (dome). I judged the taste in a cold and overcast August – glad it wasn’t sour, but it didn’t gain its full sweetness, though the tendency for it is obvious. Will be good for salads – not sweet. I need to test it next year from good seedlings. For now, 4.7 out of 5. Because of Leaf Mold (Cladosporium), the yield was about 4 kg (8.8 lbs). Seeds from Sveta (Lana_s_Kavkaza).
One of the few varieties that gave me a decent yield this difficult summer. In the greenhouse, it was the earliest. The fruit shape varied on the exact same bush – on the lower trusses it was flattened-round, and on the upper ones it was cone-shaped. It probably didn’t reach its full taste potential due to the difficult summer, but even under these conditions, it was not bad.
Seeds from the forum.
Forgot to write, it wasn’t particularly tall in my greenhouse, about 1.70m (5.5 ft).
This summer turned out to be unusually warm for us, although rainy. And Shapka Monomakha showed itself in all its glory. It started ripening in the greenhouse first of all, and produced a huge amount of large fruits with an amazing taste. Interestingly, this year all the fruits were cone-shaped. The seeds are the same as last year. The only thing is, it suffers severely from Leaf Mold (Cladosporium).
Unfortunately, I can’t post photos due to bad internet.
