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Alexandr II the Liberator

2 April

On April 2, 1879, the third attempt on Russian Tsar Alexander the Second’s life failed. …

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Peter Carl Faberge

Peter Carl Faberge was a world famous master jeweler and head of the ‘House of Faberge’ in Imperial Russia in the waning days of the Russian Empire.

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