Empress Dowager, Marie and Empress Alexandra, detail from the painting by the Russian artist, V. Polyakov, showing the speech from the throne by Emperor Nicholas II on the occasion of the opening of the First State Duma of the Russian Empire on 27 April, 1906, in St. Petersburg

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