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She was seventeen, and Peter the Great was holding a crown above her head. The wedding crown would not fit over the diamond-and-pearl crown she already wore. So the tsar and his chancellor held it there while she married his son.
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She embroidered a sewing bag for her aunt's birthday. Her aunt was the dowager queen of Denmark. The year before, Elizabeth had been a prisoner in northern Russia. A little over a year later, the queen was writing to the three siblings Elizabeth left behind.