Europe’s grandest car park owned by Nicholas II

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Nicholas II owned Europe’s most lavish car park, with 56 cars in 1917 – more than any other European monarch. #Romanovs100 takes a closer look at the Tsar’s unique collection from 4-tonne limos to his son’s tiny Peugeot Bebe. 

 

While rich Russians had enjoyed motorized vehicles since the 1890s, it took the royal family some time to catch up. Imperial Household Minister Vladimir Frederiks invited the Tsar for a ride in his French Serpollet in the late 1890s, but that didn’t go well: the car broke down and had to be towed away using horses.

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