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Couple being married in front of a crowd of dignitaries
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JAMES MACK (1827-64)

St Basil's Cathedral, Moscow

Sep 1856

RCIN 2945148

This photograph of the cathedral shows the splendid system of illumination arranged for the coronation. A member of Granville’s suite recorded ‘Every dome was lighted up in the most beautiful manner […] in glittering lights. They have no gas, but glass pots full of tallow with a wick’.

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