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Word: rodzianko (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1928-1928
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Usage:

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Debauchee's Daughter | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Debauchee's Daughter | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

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