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Dancers of the Bolshoi ballet following yesterday’s football match backstage during a performance of Raymonda

Photo via Bruna Gaglianone

One of the last photos of Tsar Nicholas II. He is in captivity following the February Revolution. March 1917

The Romanovs And Me

Since Google is orphaning Picasa next month, I've been migrating photos I'd been storing there over to my Apple cloud. In the process, I've re-discovered some favorites to share.

While we were in St Petersburg a few years ago, we visited the Romanovs' Winter Palace. The opulence and beautiful details stopped me in my tracks more than once as I thought of the magnificent parties and balls the Royal family hosted in these very rooms, prior to the Revolution.

And a lot of it happened on this gorgeous parquet floor. (But not in Cons.)