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Paul Louis Germinet (1846-1914) was a French naval officer. Germinet commanded the cruiser Pothuau in 1897 during the official visit of the French president Felix Faure to Russia, when the Franco-Russian Alliance was publicly announced aboard this vessel. Nicholas II met the president and the French delegation again in Cronstadt aboard the French cruiser Montcalm in May 1902. It is possible that this bratina was presented to Paul Louis Germinet during this visit as one of a large number of diplomatic gifts, that were well documented in 'Niva' and 'Moskovskiy listok' newspapers from May 1902.