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The Romanovs' Last Ball: The 1903 Costume Ball That Foretold Doom
In February 1903, the Romanov dynasty threw a lavish costume ball at the Winter Palace—a meticulously staged affair where Nicholas II and his courtiers dressed as 17th-century tsars and boyars, evoking the era of Alexei Mikhailovich. This episode dives into the 1903 ball as a microcosm of imperial Russia's fatal disconnect: the opulence, the anachronistic nostalgia, the political ignorance, and the eerie omens (the famous photograph of the imperial family in costume would later become an icon of a lost world). We discuss the guest list (including the ill-fated Grand Duke Sergei…
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