RUSSIA: The Doll & the Egg (or what happens if you don't look before you leap)
December 30th 2019 There were 600 palaces in St Petersburg before the Russian Revolution but only members of the Russian Royal family lived in them.
The Tsars had heaps of children and it was only right that each had their own palace.
There were also 870 Aristocratic families in St Petersburg before the Russian Revolution. They were not Royals and did not live in palaces but lived in mansions.
That's what w
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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more 
Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro
On Faberge eggs
Several of the original Faberge eggs are missing and it is not known what has happened to them. I think I read a story that one of those was rediscovered only a few years ago. It was sold more or sell as junk. I have tried to find that story now but failed. So I might be wrong after all. /Ake