Word: romanov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, by Robert K. Massie. The decline and fall of the Romanov dynasty is told through the personal tragedy of the last, likable heads of the Russian ruling family...
NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, by Robert K. Massie. In telling the tragic story of Czar Nicholas II and his wife, the last of the Romanov dynasty, Author Massie stresses the crucial role of Rasputin in discrediting the imperial family in the people's eyes...
...Innocents. The old sinister horror movie of Rasputin has had many reruns. What is new about the Massie version is the credible manner in which he puts the obscene Rasputin goings-on into the context of the Romanov court -at once bizarre and simple, familiar and ceremonious-fatally rooted in the half-barbaric system of old Muscovy...
...invaded Russia, that has not yet accepted the postwar Oder-Neisse frontier and, moreover, now demands nuclear weapons. French aides noted signs of Gaullist irritation: the general's nods came with such regularity that he resembled a ticking time bomb and his hands clenched tight on the carved Romanov griffins of his chair. De Gaulle's response would have pleased his NATO allies if he had uttered it in their presence. "It is necessary," he said when Brezhnev finally finished, "to proceed by stages. The future lasts a long time, and blocs do not dissolve overnight...
Anya (Constance Towers) is an attractive girl who has just finished a wet run on suicide by diving into a canal, and is drying out in a Berlin nut house, in 1925. In two words, her vocabulary is "Anastasia Romanov." Who should hear about her but Bounine the taxi driver? Well, part-time taxi driver. General Bounine (Michael Kermoyan) is one of those loyal servants of the Czar of All the Russias, without whom the czardom could scarcely have fallen. Bounine does not believe that the girl escaped the Bolshevik firing squad at Ekaterinburg, but he plays Professor Higgins...