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...meantime, the girl who is to become the great love of Yurii Zhivago's life, Larisa (Lara) Feodorovna Guishar, is being schooled in a very different way. In her mid-teens, she is seduced by a middle-aged lawyer lecher named Komarovsky. The characters are easily seen as symbols. Komarovsky plainly stands for the corruption of the old Czarist regime, while Lara may be Mary Magdalene or Russia herself. And what of Yurii Zhivago? He too stands for Russia. He also stands for martyrdom (Critic Edmund Wilson notes that Yurii means George and perhaps suggests St. George, martyred under...
Died. Grand Duchess Feodorovna, 59, wife of Grand Duke Cyril-Vladimirovich. self-proclaimed Emperor of all the Russias; of an apoplectic stroke; in Munich...
Apart from his public capacity, Banker Bark had been for years the adviser in private financial matters of King George's aunt, the late beauteous Empress of All the Russias Marie Feodorovna. sister of Britain's Queen Alexandra. Escaping to England after the Revolution, the Tsarist banker has prospered, today is Managing Director of the Anglo-International Bank. Said freshly-knighted Sir Peter Bark significantly: "My knighthood was conferred as a personal order from the King...
...first believe reports that Trotsky was going to lecture in Denmark," wrote Aage, "but I now see it is true. . . . Has Denmark forgotten that Trotsky was a member of the [Soviet] Government that killed the two sons and the grandchildren of the Danish Princess who be came Empress [Maria Feodorovna of Russia...
...years, spanned by Alexander's maturity, his life took course invariably close to the leading events in the Fall of the Russian Empire. At the last, when Nicholas II could no longer protect his own mother, Alexander took care of this old lady, the Dowater Empress Maria Feodorovna, who was also his mother-in-law. Favored by circumstances, he eventually got her and his own family (wife, seven children) safely out of Soviet Russia...