The main Treasure Gallery most visitors are likely to see provides a hefty hors d'oeuvre portion of ancient gold works before segueing into various latter-day Czarist excesses (the diamond-crusted horse blanket, gift of a Turkish sultan, comes to mind).

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He turned up one day hungry and riding a gray horse that had a filthy blanket on his back and a rope halter instead of a bridle.

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