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...police, knowing their mob, avoided trouble by debarking Algeria's Barbe Bleu at the island in the harbor of Marseilles on which stands the Chateau d'If, made famed by Duma's Monte Cristo...
...statesmen of strongest will who testified that they could barely resist these powers were onetime President of the Duma Michael Rodzianko and onetime Prime Minister Peter Arcadevich Stolypin...
President of the Duma Rodzianko, a man of huge physique, told thus of a similar encounter: "Rasputin faced me and seemed to run me over with his eyes; first my face, then the region of the heart, then again he stared me in the eyes. ... I, speaking literally, felt my own eyes starting out of my head. ... I felt myself confronted by an unknown, tremendous power...
...Russian Duma," Professor Karpovich, Sever...
...Uritsky Palace, onetime Taurid Palace, was built by Catherine the Great for her lover, Gregory Aleksandrovitch Potemkin. It was there, 21 years ago, that the first Duma (Parliament) met, only to be suppressed by the fiat of the Autocrat of All the Russias, Nicholas...