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Grand Duchess Xenia, sister of Tsar Nicholas II, at the 1903 costume ball.

 

Rare letters, diaries, photographs, and artifacts of Imperial Russia.

Rare letters, diaries, photographs, and artifacts of Imperial Russia, drawing on the holdings of the Hoover Institution Archives, the State Archives of the Russian Federation, The Museum of Russian Culutre, and the private collection of Andrew Ruzhnikov.

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