Arthur Cassini
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Artur Pavlovich Cassini, Marquess of Capizucchi di Bologna and Count Cassini, known as Arthur Cassini, was a Russian aristocrat and lifelong diplomat who served in the Diplomatic Service of the Imperi
Portrait, 1903
Port Arthur, which Cassini was instrumental in obtaining key rights over for Russia
A shocked mandarin in Manchu robe in the back, with Queen Victoria (United Kingdom), Kaiser Wilhelm II (Germany), Tsar Nicholas II (Russia), Marianne (France), and a samurai (Japan) stabbing into a king cake with Chine ("China" in French) written on it.
Arthur Cassini in 1904.
Nicholas II
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Nicholas II was Emperor of Russia from 1 November 1894 until his abdication in 1917. He was the last Russian monarch before the Russian Revolution and oversaw the Russian Empire's participation in Wor
Nicholas in 1912
Nicholas with his mother, Maria Feodorovna, in 1870
Emperor Nicholas II with his cousin, George V of the United Kingdom (right), wearing German military uniforms in Berlin before the war; 1913