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Culture: A decade ago, the “czarinas” emerged as Russia’s fashion ambassadors.

“Germany and Russia have been linked for a thousand years. The biggest Russian czarina was Catherine the Great, a German, who incidentally made Crimea part of Russia.”

Some are already well known — the slew of young women pretending to be Anastasia, the lost czarina, or the Fox sisters, whose hoaxes launched spiritualism into stratospheric popularity.

"It took a long time to kill his son, the czarina and the princesses," a historian murmurs.

A prince plots to kill mad monk Rasputin for the good of the czar, the czarina and Russia.