Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some months the Dowager Tsarina Dagmar, widow of Tsar Alexander III, and her nephew King Christian X of Denmark have employed agents to investigate the possibility that a woman with bullet scars upon her scalp and abdomen, who is being cared for in a Berlin sanitarium under the name "Frau von Tschaikovski" (TIME, Jan. 11), may actually be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, reputedly murdered with her father Tsar Nicholas II and the rest of the imperial family in a cellar at Ekaterinburg. (July...
...Tsar's four daughters all possessed luxuriant hair, clear delicate complexions, and a carriage and manner unaffectedly regal. Anastasia, a girl of 17 at the time of her reported assassination, was considered a distinctly handsome young woman hors de boudoir...
...Reichstag proceedings upon this point last week were, however, of such a routine nature that only Deputy Scheidemann (Socialist) spoke. He accused Wilhelm of Doorn of high treason, charging that he betrayed secrets of importance to the late Tsar Nicholas. During Herr Scheidemann's tirade, many Deputies of the Right quietly left the hall-heeded not when he went on to accuse Wilhelm's sympathizers of "deception, corruption, and doglike servility...
...Right; Witos, Center; Pilsudski, Left) encouraged his followers to set him up as dictator. Correspondents cabled that "anything might happen." Interest centred in fire-eating, swashbuckling Josef Pilsudski, a former (the second) President of the Rzeczpospolita Palska. He was exiled to Siberia (1887-1892) for plotting to assassinate the Tsar; and during the World War the Germans succeeded in catching and imprisoning him. When at liberty, he delights to organize bands of "patriots," train them in gymnastic sokols (clubs) and lead them on ill-considered expeditions, such as that which seized the strategically negligible town of Kielce (August, 1914). Poles...
...stood high Persian dignitaries-most of them Moslems, some Christians. All had assembled for the coronation of a man who five years ago was a mere bandit, Reza Pahlavi, marauding in Persia at the head of some Russian Cossacks who would not stop fighting when their original master, the Tsar, was executed...