Word: nikolais
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...would, Sire and Cousin!" cried the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich...
...court of little and weak men, of whom the weakest was perhaps Nicholas II, another and a towering Nicholas always strode with head erect. Too late (1914) Nicholas II placed all the armies of all the Russias under command of his tall, big-boned second cousin, the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich, grandson of the Tsar Nicholas I. The German pre-War penetration of Russia had been too deadly for any Russian commander to succeed. Too late the Grand Duke proved himself fit to rank with Ludendorff, Joffre, Mackensen, Foch, by his masterly "retreat without destruction" along the Narew-Vistula...
...during the great retreat, Nicholas II asked of Nikolai whether peace should not be made with Germany at once...
Reply. The Grand Duke Nikolai, now 70 and prudently aware of his impotence, answered...
Vexed. At Coburg, where the Grand Duke Cyril (TiME, Dec. 10, 1923) has openly proclaimed himself "Tsar of all the Russias" and reigns over a mimic court, both the action of the emigres in disregarding Cyril's claims and the reply of the Grand Duke Nikolai, likewise ignoring him, touched off sulphurous words of scorn...