Word: czarinas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...powerful member of the Establishment he chose to fight against; he cheerfully endured exile and long imprisonment but showed none of the pride, power mania or personal deviousness that disfigure the image of so many revolutionaries. As a child, he had slept during a court ball in the future Czarina's semi-sacred lap, and he died (at 78) safe, as it were, in the bosom of Stalin, only a troika's drive from the Kremlin. His life had come full circle, and so had the movement that began as a fight for freedom against an absolute monarch...
Most people in the village of Unterlengenhart, West Germany, where she has been living, know her as Anna Anderson. But for 31 years she has been trying to prove she is the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of Russia's murdered Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra. On a visit to the U.S. last week, she found an important backer: Maria Rasputin, 69, daughter of the "mad monk" who held dark dominance over the Czarina. Soon after the two women met in Charlottesville, Va., they began reminiscing. Twice Anna called Maria by her pet name, "Mara." No matter what...
...Felix Youssoupoff, 80, gentlemanly assassin of Czarist Russia's "Mad Monk," Rasputin; of a stroke; in Paris. Heir to one of his nation's greatest fortunes (an estimated $350 million), Youssoupoff plotted with other noblemen in 1916 to murder Rasputin because of his hypnotic hold on the Czarina. As the Prince told it, he lured the holy man to his palace, where it took a combination of cyanide, five bullets and a bludgeoning to accomplish the deed. A refugee in France after the Revolution, Youssoupoff fought several court battles over its dramatization. Most recently he lost an invasion...
...trenches. At home, the winter had been cruelly severe even by Siberian standards. Russia's rickety railroads were no longer able to funnel sufficient food into the cities, and bread lines in the capital of Petrograd (now Leningrad) grew longer each day. The orgies and intrigues of the Czarina's mad mystic Rasputin had riven Nicholas II's court. It was in this chill ambiance of discontent and deprivation that, 50 years ago this week, a revolution that began almost casually in Petrograd swept out the Czar and changed the course of Russian and modern history...
Died. Ruth Shipley, 81, longtime (1928-55) head of the State Department's Passport Division, known as "the Czarina of the Potomac" by liberals who objected to her zealous enforcement of regulations restricting the travel of Communists and their friends; of a heart attack; in Kensington, Md. F.D.R. had his own phrase for her-"a delightful ogre"-possibly because he once intervened on behalf of a friend denied a passport, had to report back: "Mrs. Shipley says no and that...