Word: romanov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sign offered to Sogra that a life-and-death struggle for the Russian presidency was under way. No representative of any of the other nine candidates came, no one put up posters, no one delivered flyers. "Why would anyone come here?" asked the chairman of the village council, Vladimir Romanov. "The nearest paved road is 100 km away...
Given this miserable situation, Romanov was asked, why did so many people vote for Yeltsin? A long pause. "I don't know," he said. Lychev, the schoolteacher, expressed disdain for Yeltsin but voted for him anyway. "It was a case of the lesser evil," he said. "The one thing I wanted to avoid was a turn back to the past." The village's fierce pharmacist, Tamara Bechina, who supports Zyuganov, had this explanation: "They voted for Yeltsin because they're benighted. They voted for Yeltsin because their bosses 'suggested' they do so." The village doctor, Lyubov Chuvikova, will also vote...
...DEATH OF COMRADE NICHOLAS Romanov was nasty and brutish. In 1918 the last Czar of Russia was a prisoner of the Ural Regional Soviet in the Siberian city of Ekaterinburg. With him were his German-born wife, the Czarina Alexandra; their four daughters, the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia, and hemophiliac son, the Czarevich Alexis; the family doctor, Eugene Botkin; and three servants...
...Robert K. Massie points out in The Romanovs: The Final Chapter (Random House; 320 pages; $25), the imperial family's murder was only one horrifying moment in an unfinished saga. Shortly after officials in Moscow announced that the Czar had been shot (there was no immediate mention of his family), rumors arose that some or even all of the royals had managed to escape. In the 1920s, Europe and America were almost awash with fraudulent Romanov wannabes, several of them demanding access to a huge fortune that Nicholas had allegedly secreted abroad...
Will another Romanov ever rule Russia? Not according to Prince Nicholas Romanov, a retired farmer living in Switzerland, who is the acknowledged head of a now bitterly divided family. "We cannot even think of it," he told Massie, even though some symbols of the czarist past, like the country's pre-Soviet flag, have been restored. Should the impossible happen, one plausible candidate for the throne is a retired U.S. Marine colonel named Paul R. Ilyinsky, the son of the late Grand Duke Dimitri, a cousin of the Czar's. Ilyinsky, however, prefers the job he already holds: mayor...