A FINE RUSSIAN ROYAL WINE GLASS FROM THE ROMANOV TERCENTENERY SERVICE, circa 1913, by the Imperial Glassworks in St. Petersburg, the round funnel bowl faceted at the base, gilded and engraved with the crowned cypher monograms 'HA II' for Emperor Nicholas II (Nikolay II Vtoroy) and his consort Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse), flanked by martial trophies, the reverse with the double-headed black Imperial eagle beneath a crown, flanked by floral sprays, set on a multi-knopped and faceted hollow baluster stem, over a domed foot, 15.6cm high FOOTNOTES: This glass is one of an extraordinarily large service of 1,050 pieces commissioned from the Imperial Glassworks for the celebrations of the Tercentenary of the Romanov Dynasty in 1913. Nicholas II (1868-1918) was the last Emperor of Russia. His forced abdication in 1917, followed by his infamous execution by the Bolsheviks in 1918, together with his wife and children, saw the fall of the Russian Empire.