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| | Entertainment Design: Russian Dressing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | One of the saddest stories to emerge from the 20th century was the destruction of the Romanov dynasty at the beginning of the Russian Revolution. |
 | | Tsar Nicholas II was unable to cope with the changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution, market forces, urbanization, and the rise of democracy and socialism across Europe; in addition, he was privately haunted by his son's crippling hemophilia. |
 | | To reveal the Russian peasants behind the set, he placed 300W A lamps between each window, with additional lighting from below, above, and from stage right, to create what he calls "a beautiful footlight effect." He also used footlights in far downstage positions to create sinister, shadowy effects for certain moments. |
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