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Portrait of Aurora Karlovna Karamzina, née Stjernvall (1808-1902), with a cipher of her empress, Alexandra Feodorovna (1828-1855); a smaller cross of St Catherine, which she received in 1883; and a portrait badge of Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (1894-1917), which she received in 1898. (The portrait badge depicted here is the one presented to A. S. Albedinskaia in 1896.) Courtesy Sergei Patrikeev.

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