Angels and Flies 1: Angel's Head

On a frigid winter noon at the end of the XVIII century, two royal best friends, the young Imperial Princess Catherine and the Princess Yekaterina Dashkova, together known then as “the twin jewels of the Russian Empire,” ran through the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in a game of hide and seek.

Catherine made a cough.

“Who was she? Who was Mary Hamilton?”

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