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October 16, 2008 -- An Ambassador for the Empire

This backgrounds for this page were really easy to draw, because some nice person put up a 360-degree panorama of the "Mirror Room" at Schonbrunn. The internets have been remarkably good to me in my quest for research material.

And speaking of, here's your weekly dose of trivia: twenty years earlier, this same room hosted a young prodigy's debut before the Empress. Also, that's the future Emperor of Russia that's asking von Kempelen to visit his mom, Catherine the Great.