She was the most powerful woman in the Romanov Empire, hiding Europe's largest diamond collection beneath the filthy rags of a battered survivor. Why did Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, a royal born to command, end up fleeing the Russian Revolution in the dark on a freezing coal train?

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