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# Group photograph of the guests at the court masked ball held in the Hermitage on 13 February 1903 to mark the 290th anniversary of the House of Romanov, at which the whole nobility of the Russian Empire appeared in costumes of the pre-Petrine era
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/obshchaia-fotografiia-uchastnikov-pridvornogo-bala-maskarada-v-chest-290-letiia-doma-romanovykh-v-ermitazhe-13-fevralia-1903-goda-na-kotorom-vsia-znat-rossiiskoi-imperii-byla-v-kostiuma/
- Published: 2025-12-31T08:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:27:31.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Aristocracy, Archive, Monarchies, Mores, Saint Petersburg

> The hall, filled with ancient Russian folk, looked very beautiful indeed.

So Nicholas II described in his diary his impressions of the celebrated ball in the Winter Palace.