Gracious and smiling, she slowly walked between rows of curtsying women, with the two eldest daughters of the Emperor beside her, holding each other by the hand.ĭelightful fair-haired little girls of nine and seven, they wore short Court dresses in pink and silver, reaching a little below their knees. The Emperor came only to the solemn Te Deum after it, so it was the Empress-Dowager who was the chief personage. According to Russian custom, the parents never attended a christening.
We travelled down to Peterhof, where the christening took place. ❝ For the first time in centuries an heir had been born to a reigning emperor, and the ceremony was adorned with all the pomp and circumstance befitting the occasion.
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