Saturday, 3 October 2026

Nicholas II leaving a crypt at Chersonesos in a photograph banned by the censor

Black and white photograph of men in white caps and women by a stone wall with steps and a dark doorway, one man stepping into the opening.

Nicholas II emerges from an adjoining wall crypt at Chersonesos. The original photograph is in Chersonesos; on the reverse side the censor has written "Not for publication". Because the Emperor had adopted an awkward posture

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