Word: sofia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Within the last few weeks: "I have no knowledge concerning reports that he has married Sofia Tolstoy, the granddaughter of Count Leo Tolstoy. . . . Sergei Yessenin is not like other...
Peter's older brother, Ivan, is a moron; his sister, Sofia, is grasping for the throne. His mother's lover, Prince Galizyn, has been inherited by Sofia. A Prussian lieutenant tutors Peter in the palace at Preobrashensk. One day tailors arrive. Peter is outfitted and taken to Moscow. Ivan is dead. Peter is proclaimed Tsar...
...From Sofia despatches chronicled the assassination of M. Madjariow, the mayor of the city, by one Tomoff. For a wonder the two men chanced to be of the same political party and as a result the Bulgarian press was unable to adhere to its usual policy of attaching an allegedly "deep political significance" to every notable crime...
...Madjariow had vigorously urged a pro-Ally attitude upon the Bulgarian Government up to the very moment when Bulgaria threw in her lot with the Central Powers. His son rose to political prominence early in life, and was "one of the youngest and most popular majors ever installed at Sofia...
Last week that hardy statesman, that skilful graphic artist in words, the abdicated Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria, sought and gained pardon from the Vicar of Christ for an offense which has estranged the Vatican from Sofia these many years. Humbly presenting himself "as a pilgrim," Ferdinand bent his powerful big-boned frame and kissed the regally extended Papal toe. Pardoned, he wove what spells he might in the Papal ear during the half hour of audience allotted him. Then, with his handsome features wreathed in the smile of one handsomely forgiven, he quitted the Vatican, was smartly saluted...