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Charles to visit tomb of Tsars

Saturday 14 May 1994 23:02 BST
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PRINCE Charles will tomorrow become the first royal to visit Russia since the 1917 Communist revolution. His four-day trip to St Petersburg will include a tour of the Peter and Paul fortress to pay homage at the tomb of his relatives the Romanovs, who were murdered by the Bolsheviks.

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