Word: anastasias
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...July 16, 1918, in the Ural mining town of Ekaterinburg, Bolshevik jailers gunned down the Russian royal family. Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, their 14-year-old hemophiliac son Alexei and his four sisters were all shot. A dubious postscript holds that one of the girls, the Grand Duchess Anastasia, escaped and is still alive...
...chief of New York City's most powerful Mafia family; in his sleep; in Massapequa, N.Y. The Sicilian-born Gambino came to the U.S. as a stowaway at the age of 19. He assumed control of his underworld clan in 1957 after the assassination of its boss, Albert Anastasia, in the barbershop of the Park-Sheraton Hotel. Although the Federal Government tried to deport Gambino for ten years, a series of heart attacks enabled him to successfully thwart expulsion to Italy...
...ponderously romanticized narrative about Czar Ivan IV. A madman and a tyrant, Ivan fought the feudal boyar nobles as well as invading enemies and managed to unite Russia during the 16th century. There are scenes evoking his struggle with the nobles, lyrical moments of happiness with his first wife, Anastasia, plotting by the boyars and the duplicitous Prince Kurbsky, who tries to destroy Ivan by poisoning his queen. After her death, the Czar's madness grows, and with it his use of the dreaded oprichniki (a primitive kind of secret police) to suppress both boyar and peasant revolts. Ivan...
...Anastasia, Natalia Bessmertnova-one of the most lyrical ballerinas in the world-has little to do but flutter her graceful arms and look demure. The only multidimensional character is Ivan, a role danced at the premiere by Yuri Vladimirov. An extraordinarily lithe actor with a frazzled mane and long simian arms, Vladimirov in his mad scenes looked oddly like a bemused orangutan who had suddenly been set loose from a zoo. That effect was heightened in the ballet's unintentionally ludicrous climax, when the paranoid Czar, hopelessly entangled among bell ropes, dangles above a crowd of foot-stomping peasants...
...familiar. A cache of newly discovered photographs, handed down by a friend of one of the Czarina's ladies in waiting, includes one of Czar Nicholas II, canoeing with his son, Czarevich Alexis, and another of the Czar's two youngest daughters, the Grand Duchesses Maria and Anastasia. The specter of their Romanov majesties was also unexpectedly raised in London by Liberal Party Leader Jeremy Thorpe...