 Petrovitch took the imperial crown from the altar, placed it on his own head, then laid it reverently on his father's coffin. When Peter III. was transferred immediately afterward, with magnificent ceremonial, to the Winter Palace, there to lie in state...  Russian Rambles - Page 24by Isabel Florence Hapgood - 1895 - 369 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1892 - 968 pages
...the altar, placed it on his own head, then laid it reverently on his father's coffin. "When Peter HI. was transferred immediately afterward, with magnificent...Palace, there to lie in state by the side of his wife, Katheriue IT., and to accompany her to his proper resting-place among the sovereigns of Russia, in... | |
 | Richard Harding Davis, Andrew Lang, William Wetmore Story, Francisque Sarcey, Henry James, Paul Lindau, Isabel Florence Hapgood - Broadway (New York, N.Y.) - 1892 - 280 pages
...his long-deceased father a more fitting burial. The body was exhumed. Surrounded by his court, Pavel Petrovitch took the Imperial crown from the altar,...cathedral of the Peter-Paul fortress, Count Alexei Grigorovitch Orloff was appointed, with fine irony, to carry the crown before his former master, whom... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - American periodicals - 1892 - 802 pages
...magnificent ceremonial, to the Winter Palace, there to lie in state by the side of his wife, Katheriue II., and to accompany her to his proper resting-place...the sovereigns of Russia, in the cathedral of the Peter - Paul fortress. symbols of the Holy Ghost, inviolable in Russia, attack with impunity the grain... | |
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