It was the most magnificent court in Europe-a world of fairy-tale opulence, ornate archi-tecture, sophisticated fashion, extravagant luxury, and immense power. In the last Russian imperial court, a potent underlying mythology drove its participants to enact the pag-eantry of medieval, Orthodox Russia-infused with the sensibilities of Versailles-against a backdrop of fading Edwardian splendor, providing a spectacle of archaic ceremonies careful...
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