Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...première of a super-nude review starring Mme. Boris Soloviev, better known as "Rasputin's Daughter" (TIME, July 16). Mme. Soloviev is the daughter of the "Black Monk" Gregory Novihh-called "Rasputin" (which means the "Debauchee"), and famed as the evil nemesis of the last Tsar and Tsaritsa of All the Russias. Pending in Paris is a damage suit for 25,000,000 francs brought by Mme. Soloviev against Prince Felix Youssoupov, the self-confessed killer of Monk Rasputin...
Bored, he traveled abroad. In England he studied oratory, and municipal ownership. In Russia he communed with Tolstoy, and also lectured the handsome young Tsar on free speech. In Japan he took a bath which fascinated a large audience. In six countries he observed government ownership of railroads-another unpopular cause which he promptly championed upon his return to America...
...cinemakers to provoke the prejudices of their gum-chewing public, by showing political bias on the screen. They marveled that so shrewd a person as Mayor Walker should have underestimated the shrewdness of the cinemen. The Messrs. Schenck and Mayer called Mayor Walker's warnings "extremely amusing." Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays ignored the incident...
Prince Alexandre Dimitri Golitzin,* onetime Court Master of Ceremonies to Tsar Nicholas II, was named in despatches as chief backer of the Woman Racing Syndicate. The track was equipped, in time for the first race last week, with automatic pari-mutuel betting machines, similar to those used on horse and dog racetracks throughout Europe...
...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...