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Ch. 2: The Famous Orloff Diamond

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THE ORLOFF.                                  49
the history of the Orloff becomes one of long repose and seclusion, diversified by transient re-entrances into grandeur as successive Czars appear upon the scene to be crowned.
The most singular coronation which has ever been performed was probably that which fol­lowed the death of Catharine and preceded the consecration of her son and successor. Catharine died in 1797 after a reign of thirty-five years. But before she could be buried there was a ceremony to be performed, the like of which had never been seen.
Her son Paul, a taciturn individual who seems never to have forgotten his father's mis­erable death, performed an'expiatory coronation in his honor, seeing that that ceremony had been neglected in Peter's life. For this pur­pose the body of the long-dead Czar was disin­terred and was dressed in the Imperial robes. The ornaments of the coronation which had been fetched expressly from Moscow for the purpose were then disposed about the moulder-
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