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Russia Symbol  A Palm Sunday Procession Before the Kremlin
  
A Palm Sunday Procession Before the Kremlin
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Adam Olearius (1603–1671)
Voyages très curieux … en Muscovie, Tartarie, et Perse [Very Unusual Travels … in Muscovy, Tartary, and Persia]
Leiden: P. vander Aa, 1719
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A Palm Sunday procession outside the Kremlin walls during the reign of Mikhail Fedorovich (r. 1613–45), the first Romanov Tsar.

              

 
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