On 3 July 1895 at Peterhof was born Irina, Princess of the Imperial Blood, daughter of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Xenia

On 3 July 1895 at Peterhof was born Irina, Princess of the Imperial Blood, daughter of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Xenia. Princess Irina's father was a grandson of Nicholas I through the latter's youngest son, her mother a sister of Nicholas II. In 1914 Irina Alexandrovna married Prince Felix Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston, and the couple were wed in the church of the Anichkov Palace. By marrying a man not of royal blood, Irina signed a renunciation of her rights to the throne. The Yusupovs left Russia in 1919 during the Crimean evacuation aboard the British liner Malborough, and lived in France for the rest of their days; Irina Alexandrovna died in 1970. Irina and Felix had one daughter, Irina Yusupova.

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the

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On 3 July 1895 at Peterhof was born Irina, Princess of the Imperial Blood, daughter of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Xenia

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At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free

Frederic Leighton

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Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s