July 17 is one of those dates when history does not appear neatly pasted into an album, but smells of dust, fear and gunpowder. In Paris in 1791, citizens gathered on the Champ-de-Mars and demanded the removal of Louis XVI. In the Russian city of Yekaterinburg in 1918, Tsar Nicholas II, his family and four companions died from the shots of their guards. The two scenes are separated by 127…
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