Word: czarina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great gold and silver plates on which the major towns of Russia offered their symbolic tribute of bread and salt to the Czar. But his major works were small and intimate. One day, Czar Alexander III asked him to do something special as an Easter present for the Czarina. Fabergé produced an enameled egg so pleasing that giving jeweled eggs became an Easter custom in the royal family. Each of the eggs held some surprise inside-other eggs, or perhaps a hen, or a miniature of the czarevitch. Even when Czar Nicholas II was at the front...
Furthermore, the singers are encouraged to wear makeup so similar that it becomes almost impossible to distinguish between them, especially between the Czarina's spy, the antagonists, and Prince Golitzin...
...other sub-plot, which is partially justified by some noble writing for the bass-baritone, tells of Father Dossifey and his attempt to win peace and prosperity for his flock. In the end, the Czarina--at least, I think it's the Czarina--has him killed for reasons best known to herself...