Word: czar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also something of a stickler for patriotic traditions. On a wall in one room of his Gorinka estate, about 25 miles outside of Moscow, hangs a pink marble plaque which reads: "Emperor Alexander I, the Blessed Czar of all the Russias, danced in this room after having defeated the armies of Bonaparte in the Patriotic War." When his second wife tried to rip it down, Stalin said: "I'm a Georgian, so I must show great respect for all the relics of Russian history." One Bolshevik relic, the embalmed body of Lenin, is now a fake, says Budu. When...
...some of the luster off Grace Vanderbilt's crown. High taxes and World War II dealt her even harder blows. The famed Vanderbilt hospitality was offered to some odd citizens indeed: among them was Soviet U.N. Delegate Andrei Gromyko, whom Mrs. Vanderbilt regaled with reminiscences of the late Czar Nicholas. After her husband's death in 1942, Grace Vanderbilt abandoned to the wreckers the 58-room Fifth Avenue mansion which had cost her husband's grandfather $1,000,000 to build...
...Khrushchev is what the Communists call a Vydvizhenets, one who is "pushed forward." As commissar for metropolitan Moscow, he no longer affects a worker's peaked cap, but still orates in the rough accent of his early years as a shepherd lad and a child laborer in the Czar's coal mines...
...hire & fire at will, dispense I.L.A. union cards at cut-rate initiation fees, and threaten any stevedoring company with a quick strike. Under the union contract, the hiring boss is a foreman appointed by the companies themselves. But he is actually the free & unhampered agent of the local I.L.A. czar...
...Consort of the late King Victor Emmanuel III; in Montpellier, France. A towering (6 ft.), black-haired princess of the Black Mountain (her father was Nicholas, Chieftain of Balkan Montenegro), Elena was courted by tiny (5 ft. 3 in.) Victor Emmanuel (then Prince of Naples) at the coronation of Czar Nicholas II in St. Petersburg. When the shy, awed prince fell in love with her, she was a daredevil horsewoman, had rustic manners and a deep, resonant voice. Married in 1896, they ascended the throne in 1900, where they remained until exiled...