Word: siberian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Imperial Family, then setting out for Siberian exile, chanced to drive through the village of Pokrovskoie, where Rasputin was born, and as they clattered past the murdered Monk's house, the Tsaritsa Alexandra waved to his daughter, Mme. Soloviev, who was standing in the doorway. Boris Soloviev, was serving at this time as a secret emissary between the Tsar and his White Russian adherents. Some historians maintain that he betrayed a project for the rescue of the Imperial Family to the Bolsheviki, thus precipitating the mass murder of the Romanovs, at Ekaterinburg, on July...
Seasoned travelers who remember the Trans-Siberian trip from before the War, could not detect, last week, anything changed or unfamiliar in the following description, released by Cooks, of the journey as it is today...
...days it was the privilege and habit of the Tsars to stop their Imperial Train on the single track Trans-Siberian line at any point which fancy might dictate, while they picnicked, strolled in the woods, or received the homage of peasants. Meanwhile, for scores of miles up and down the line, local traffic would be suspended and of course all through express trains stopped...
...spires of Petrograd, only to be driven back. A second White Army and Government was dominated by Admiral Alexander Vasilievich Kolchak. In 1919 he advanced from Siberia until he was within 450 miles of Moscow. Later, when he was driven back, he signed a ukase transferring the Siberian Government over which he held sway to a third White Commander, General Anton Deniken, whose armies then dominated Southern Russia...
...bars into quarter-eagles, half-eagles, eagles, double-eagles. Assay office chemists in the annex to the Sub-Treasury building in Wall Street lit furnaces, uncorked acid bottles, adjusted exquisite balances, burned, corroded, measured, weighed bars of gold. It was standard gold. It was, in fact, new gold-from Siberian mines, which now produce $25,000,000 worth a year. U. S. trade with Russia is now larger than before the war, about $100,000,000 a year. The Soviets look the dollar in the face...