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Kremlin displays rare German silver
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Dateline: MOSCOW
Adding luster to the upcoming New Year's holidays, the Kremlin put
on display Tuesday some of the finest pieces of its vast collection
of German silver from the 16th-18th centuries, giving the public a
rare peek at the shining treasures.
Some of the 130 pieces of the estimated 2,000 works of silver in the
Kremlin vaults have never been open to public view in Russia before,
according to the organizers of the exhibition, "Masterpieces of German
Silver in the Kremlin."
Most of the pieces were either presents to the czars from foreign
diplomats or ...
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