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TIL Abram Petrovich Gannibal began the first Black Russian aristocratic dynasty in the 1700s. Born in what is now Cameroon, Central Africa - and brought to the court of Peter The Great - he became a war General and godson of the Emperor. Many European royal houses descend from Gannibal today...

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