Late 19 thC Russian : An interesting Russian enamelled 1896 Czar Nicholas II " Khodnyka Cup of Sorrows ". Also known as the Coronation Cup, the Sorrow Cup, or the Blood Cup, was made for the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra Feoorovna in 1896. The cup bears the cyphers of Nicholas and Alexandra surrounded by a geometric pattern with the Romanov eagle on the opposite side.
These were distributed to many of the half million poor peasants ( as was the custom of an important marriage ) they had gathered on the Khodnyka fields ( normally a military ground) in Moscow, when a rumour spread of coins in the bottom of enamelled cup to them were running low. The crowd surged and over 1000 were trampled to death. The Czar was devastated by the news and went to cancel an aristocrats ball to be held that evening, but was persuaded by his advisors to allow it to take place. It later became one of the main grievances of the 1905 "Bloody Sunday" Revolution. 4" high
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