Possible Clues:

• Empress’s army penetrated by nerve gas
• Time a girl embraces popular sovereign’s wife
• Artisan working for Russian empress
• Train as frantically as one of the top Russians once
• A royal primarily in woven satin, Russian empress
• Worker sent round takes in dress for Hindu empress
• Empress’s army once carrying nerve gas
• Old Russian empress
• Artisan worked for Catherine the Great?
• Ruler's dress held by promoted crawler