Friday, May 21, 2010

Faberge Eggs, Part 4

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To the degree that these expensive and opulent eggs grew to be a normal part of the lives of the Romanovs, the Romanovs were growing to be too expensive a decoration for the Russian people. Just as the eggs were conspicuously too refined and too expensive so were the Romanovs and the Medieval political system that supported them.

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