Word: czarina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there last week. The men wear shorts and rope sandals; the women, with or without Bardot's dimensions, wear floppy white hats, brightly colored loose shirts, and pastel trousers so tight that they look as though they had been stuck on. Their feet are bare and bronzed. The czarina of fashion is a waterfront couturiere named Madame Vachon who employs a whole army of peasant girls to sew and cut and iron the simple summer uniforms of the chic. Like many another Tropezien, Madame Vachon has grown very rich, for in Saint-Tropez no one is seen wearing...
Touring Britain to pick up tips on how the U.S.S.R. can begin making corsets and girdles, rarities in the Soviet Union, Russia's Fashion Czarina Mrs. V. G. Kaminskaya confided to newsmen: "We're bringing up the rear, and we know...
...theater and ballet, and so dissolute that when he waved his cane all dancers appeared on stage stark naked. Young Prince Felix married a niece of the Czar, vowed he would save the 300-year-old Romanoff dynasty by assassinating Rasputin, the magnetic evil genius of the Czar and Czarina. On the night of Dec. 29, 1916, the prince, aged 29, lured Rasputin to the basement of his St. Petersburg home and, while accomplices played Yankee Doodle on the phonograph upstairs, fed him cakes and wine sprinkled with cyanide. The dose, "sufficient to kill several men instantly," merely made Rasputin...
Many of the items were gifts exchanged among royalty. There was a whole case devoted to the works of the great Russian court jeweler, Peter Carl Fabergé (TIME, April 6, 1953), including a resplendent Easter egg presented by Czar Nicholas II to his Czarina in 1914. The egg is made of a transparent mesh of platinum, gold and diamonds, contains a jeweled stand bearing portraits of the Czar's five children. Another Fabergé masterpiece was a 3-in. grand piano of Siberian jade. The most valuable item in Queen Mary's collection: a Potsdam bloodstone...
Faberge's famed intricate Easter eggs, which Russia's Czar Nicholas II used to present to his czarina. A 3-in.-long golden magician box asked questions at the press of a button, answered them to music. Q. "What lasts for too short a time?" A. "Love." The last time such a collection went on the block, so had the head of its owner, Louis XVI of France...