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... that Soviet sniper Roza Shanina's (pictured) declaration "I shall return after the battle" would be paraphrased in a book title?
... that Emperor Nicholas II of Russia was billed 3,250 rubles for the Rosebud egg, the first Fabergé egg he presented to his empress consort Alexandra Fyodorovna?
... that after Peter the Great's reform of the Russian military, serf recruits were, and their children born after the recruitment were liberated, with the boys being sent to specially created Garrison schools?

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