Word: duma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woman, the Grand Duchess Victoria of Hesse-Darmstadt (an offense for which he was temporarily banished from Russia). In the Russo-Japanese War he was blown up on the Petropavlovsk at Port Arthur. When the 1917 Revolution began, he placed himself and his regiment at the service of the Duma, fled when Kerensky and the Provisional Government fell...
Harvard's organization impressed Kerensky particularly favorably, and this led him to a discussion of the educational situation in pre-revolutionary Russia, with which he was concerned as a member of the Duma, the Russian Parliamentary body...
...plot to murder Rasputin originated in a Guards regiment in which Prince Youssoupov and the Grand Duke Dmitri were serving. They enlisted the aid of Vladimir Purishkevitch, a member of the Duma. When lecherous Rasputin reached the Youssoupov palace on the night of Dec. 16, servants were kept at the head of the stairs, talking, playing the phonograph, acting as if a party were still in progress. Downstairs used plates and half-filled glasses were scattered about as if a formal supper had just ended. Some little cakes and a few glasses of wine were packed with enough potassium cyanide...
...Duma", Mr. Vernadsky, Boylston...
Baron Ponsonby, rising to defend the MacDonald Government, demanded of the Bishop of Durham, 67, and of Lord Newton, 74, whether in 1908 they "denounced the British Government then in power for remaining silent when the report to the Russian Duma gave authentic details of cruelty under the Tsarist Regime? . . . Evidence in the present situation is much more vague and unreliable than in 1908. . . . We have grave suspicions concerning labor conditions in Russia...