A Monument in Kostroma
by Penny Wilson
In 1903 – some ten years before the Tercentenary of Romanov Rule – the mayor of Kostroma, already planning for the Imperial visit he anticipated for 1913, wrote a letter to Grand Duke Serge Alexandrovich the Moscow Governor-General:
“In view of the upcoming centenary … of the accession to the all-Russian throne of the first tsar from the Romanov dynasty,…
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