Nikolai Pavlovich Sablin

format_quote When we once asked where the grand duchess (Elizaveta) got so many jewels, the grand duchesses told us that her late husband, the Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, always returned with some gift (for her) after going into the city each day, and now having given up material life, the grand duchess gifted these jewels to her nieces. Olga Nikolaevna once got an especially beautiful piece - a diadem made from the branches of lily of the valley, and each little cup contained a diamond.