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What a lovely hat you have, with ghosts on it: is that Balenciaga?

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Quite possibly the best view of the magnificent gold embroidery with the heraldic eagle on the train of the wedding dress of Victoria Romanovna, now Romanova

Quite possibly the best view of the magnificent gold embroidery with the heraldic eagle on the train of the wedding dress of Victoria Romanovna, now Romanova. It is the work of the atelier of Sergio Marcone; the design, it is said, is by Elina Samarina

A bearded man in a dark suit and waistcoat sits beside a woman in a black fur hat and a purple shawl with gold patterns. Other spectators are visible behind them.

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Man and woman in a fur hat seated among spectators in a hall

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The Two Most Regal and Striking Looks Today Belong to Maria Vladimirovna and Olga of Greece

Top-down architectural plan: an oval green lawn with clusters of trees, paths, dark building outlines at left and bottom, and a river at right. Small labels mark the plan.

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Plan of a riverside city park with buildings and paths

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A Task from a Fourth-Form Russian Language Olympiad

A task from a fourth-form Russian language olympiad. Lyudmila Stefanovna gave her assessment

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The Duchess of Cambridge, but judging by the outfit and the neck, the Duchess of Cornwall

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A Letter from the Russian Nobility Assembly Expressing Its Displeasure at Rostislav Rostislavovich Romanov's Proclaiming Himself an Imperial Highness in the Invitation to His Own Wedding

Film still with a subtitle: an older woman in a veil and diadem looks out from behind a curtain, with the caption “don't touch the figs” below.

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A mother warns her son not to touch figs poisoned for her suspicious husband

What is care? It is when a mother warns her son not to touch the figs: she had, after all, been obliged to smear every fig in the garden with poison in order to dispatch a suspicious husband who would take no food that any other hand had touched

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The morning after the fire at Madame Tussaud's in London in 1925 looks much like the morning after a rave in 2021

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Why Does Dürer's Walrus Look So Much Like a Man from the Next Staircase Along?

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