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More than 100 years after Tsar Nicholas II abdicated the throne and the House of Romanov was overthrown in 1917, the Grand Duke returned to St. Petersburg with his bride, daughter of Ambassador Roberto Bettarini. And lets just say the word "nyet" wasn't thrown around a lot when putting together their Oct. 1, 2021 ceremony for hundreds at the city's St. Isaac's Cathedral. (The couple, who each founded their own consulting company settled in Moscow in 2019 to run their philanthropic foundation.) Between the army of attendants seeing to Bettarini's 23-foot train, the wedding rings by Fabergé, a tiara from French jeweler Chaumet and the actual Imperial eagle embroidered onto the veil, one conservative Russian paper declared, "The Romanovs are Back."