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On February 11, 1720, carpenter Yefim Nikonov started fulfilling Emperor Peter’s I order to build the test model of what could be called the first ever submarine.…

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Peter Carl Faberge

Peter Carl Faberge was a world famous master jeweler and head of the ‘House of Faberge’ in Imperial Russia in the waning days of the Russian Empire.

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