Seven ways of looking at the Fabergé exhibition at Vapriikki
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006 1. As a celebration of an exploitative imperial autocracy, rationalized through the familiar rhetoric of showing that the Romanovs were a family just like ours - only prettier, more popular, and, crucially, at some point in the past stronger and more violent. And thus in a position to give really cool Easter presents.
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