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25 января 2018 г., 09:17
Among the seven thousand guests who dined at the coronation banquet, among the grand dukes and royal princes, the emirs and ambassadors, was one room filled with plain Russian people in simple dress. They were there by hereditary right, for they were the descendants of people who, at one time or another, had saved the life of a Russian tsar. the most honored among them were the descendants of an old servant, ivan Susanin, who had redused under torture to tell the Poles where young Michael Romanov, first of Romanov tsars, was hiding.
