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Died. Xenia Alexandrovna, 85, the Grand Duchess Xenia. eldest sister of Russia's last czar. Nicholas II, one of the few members of the Romanov family to escape the brutal murders by the Bolsheviks of Nicholas, his children and relatives in 1918; of pneumonia; at Hampton Court. England. When the Bolsheviks came to power. Britain's King George V sent the dreadnought Marlborough to Yalta to carry the grand duchess and her family to safety in England. Her eldest daughter Irene married Prince Yusupov, who was one of the assassins of Rasputin...
...Kazan fashioned out of gold filigree, every contour of which mirrors the onion-topped domes of the Kremlin's shrine of St. Basil. The Great Hall of St. George in the Grand Kremlin Palace is a massive-pillared, arching vault lit by gilded one-ton chandeliers. The last Czar, Nicholas II, could boast a gilded Easter egg celebrating three centuries (1613-1913) of Romanov rule. It was inlaid with miniature portraits of all the Romanov czars, and thanks to a Bolshevik firing squad, soon proved prophetically complete...
...divine herb" and "the princess of plants." But the foes of tobacco spied the devil's hoofs beneath the princess' skirt. King James I of Great Britain called tobacco "the lively image and pattern of hell," slapped on a big import tax. Louis XIII of France and Czar Michael I decreed penalties for smoking, ranging from death to castration, and Pope Urban VIII threatened excommunication for anyone found smoking in church or on church premises. A signer of the Declaration of Independence, Dr. Benjamin Rush, attacked tobacco on grounds of health ?one of a host of doctors who through...
Aggression-minded nations, notably Russia, have frequently tried to use disarmament to weaken their enemies. The European peace conference at The Hague in 1899 met at the urging of Czar Nicholas II-not because Russian leaders were eager for peace, but because they were worried about the superiority of other powers' armaments. During the 19205 and 19303, the U.S.S.R. persistently advocated disarmament-not because the Kremlin loved peace, but because the U.S.S.R. was weak and because once standing armies and navies were abolished, the nations of the West would be more vulnerable to subversion by Communist conspirators...
...rest of the family trooped in afterward-Daughters Julia, Rada and Elena, Son Sergei and Son-in-Law Alexei Adzhubei, editor of Izvestia. It was the first time since 1896 that a Russian ruler had visited Paris. It turned out that Khrushchev's target was the same as Czar Nicholas II's-Germany...