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Slide Show of Russia's Last Imperial Ball

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Emperor Nikolai Aleksandrovich
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His Imperial Majesty Emperor Nikolai Aleksandrovich (Nicholas II) wearing the attire of Tsar Nikolai Mikhilovich. Photograph by Levitzky. This image includes the entire album page; all other images are cropped to the photograph. Album of the Masquerade Ball at the Winter Palace in February 1903, Woronzow-Daschkow collection, Hoover Institution Archives.

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Empress Aleksandra Feodorovna
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Her Imperial Majesty Empress Aleksandra Feodorovna wearing the attire of Tsarina Mariia Il’inichna. Photograph by Levitzky. Album of the Masquerade Ball at the Winter Palace in February 1903, Woronzow-Daschkow collection, Hoover Institution Archives.

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Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich
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His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich wearing the attire of a Zaporozhean Cossacks chief (ataman) in the time of Tsar Alekesei Mikhailovich. Photograph by Boissonas & Eggler. Album of the Masquerade Ball at the Winter Palace in February 1903, Woronzow-Daschkow collection, Hoover Institution Archives.

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Anton Vasil’evich Novosil’tsev
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Major General Anton Vasil’evich Novosil’tsev in the attire worn by the Don Convoy Team. Photograph by Boissonas & Eggler. Album of the Masquerade Ball at the Winter Palace in February 1903, Woronzow-Daschkow collection, Hoover Institution Archives.

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lady
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Lady-in-waiting of their majesties, our sovereign ladies (assigned to Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Mariia Georgievna), Duchess Liubov’ Nikolaevna Lobanova-Rostovskaia as a boyaryshnia (nobleman’s daughter). Photograph by Boissonas & Eggler. Album of the Masquerade Ball at the Winter Palace in February 1903, Woronzow-Daschkow collection, Hoover Institution Archives.

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Aleksei Zakharovich Khitrovo
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Master of Hounds Aleksei Zakharovich Khitrovo as a seventeenth-century voevoda (military chief). Photograph by Boissonas & Eggler. Album of the Masquerade Ball at the Winter Palace in February 1903, Woronzow-Daschkow collection, Hoover Institution Archives.

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dancers who performed the Russian Dance
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The dancers who performed the Russian Dance (Russkaia) during the ball. Photograph by Rentz & Shrader. Album of the Masquerade Ball at the Winter Palace in February 1903, Woronzow-Daschkow collection, Hoover Institution Archives.

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privileged troops
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Officers of Her Majesty Empress Mariia Feodorovna’s Horse-Guardsmen Regiment wearing the uniform of Streltsy (Russian military corps) of Stremiannoi prikaz (privileged troops) in the time of Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich. Photograph by Boissonas & Eggler. Album of the Masquerade Ball at the Winter Palace in February 1903, Woronzow-Daschkow collection, Hoover Institution Archives.

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Title page
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Title page. Album of the Masquerade Ball at the Winter Palace in February 1903, Woronzow-Daschkow collection, Hoover Institution Archives

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