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... that Count Alexander Dmitriev-Mamonov (pictured) ended his love affair with the 60-year-old Empress Catherine II of Russia in order to marry her 16-year-old lady-in-waiting?
... that Sergei Yushenkov and Yuri Shchekochikhin, key members of the Kovalev Commission charged with investigating the Russian apartment bombings both died in apparent assassinations?
... that the Samara flag, presented as a gift from Russia to the Bulgarian volunteers in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78, is the only flag awarded a Bulgarian Medal for Bravery?

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