I've laid my hands on additional material, which Andersen failed to publish, describing what happened after the imperial procession was over.
The sound of the trumpets could be heard again, and the first members of the imperial procession, heralds in the imperial white, entered.
The Mese was used for imperial processions during the Byzantine and Ottoman era.
In the Tsarist era, it was the room from which imperial processions through the state rooms began.
The street was the main scene of Byzantine imperial processions.
The Mese was the route followed by imperial processions through the city at least until Comnenian times.
The opening frames of the series show an imperial procession on a hot April day in St. Petersburg in 1912.
A few blocks past the offices, the imperial procession turned north toward Phos' High Temple.
Next to arrive were the Spanish, in an imperial procession of conquistadors, missionaries, soldiers, colonists.
During its almost 1000 years as a church, only imperial processions were permitted to enter through the central, imperial door.