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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in good condition. Pages in great condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. Some light tanning to page edges. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The 300-year-old Romanov dynasty came to an abrupt end on July 16 1918 when the Czar Nich- olas II his wife and five children were murdered in the cellar of a Siberian house during one of the bloodiest wars of all time. Not too many months after the governmental chaos that followed Russia became the modern world’s first Communist state. When very young I read with horrified fascination an abundantly illustrated volume on World War I. Its chapter about the Russian Revolution and the massacre of the Romanov family included a picture of a Faberg? Imperial Egg to illustrate the pre-War extravagance of Russia’s rulers. In London many years later (but longer ago than I like to remember) I bought my wife a Faberg? ciga- rette box (Catalogue no. 64) for Christmas. Since then she has treasured and constantly used it-until recently when I borrowed’ it to be part of our per- manent Faberg? exhibition in the lobby of the FORBES Magazine Building. (MP)