Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warning contained formal notice that letters not so marked are liable to be returned or destroyed: "The term 'Russia' cannot be tolerated. It is suggestive merely of the area once under the dominion of the Tsar...
...cables reported that Premier Tsankov and his absolutist Cabinet had been forced to resign when the gradually crumbling Government coalition in the Sobranye (Parliament) failed to obtain a majority. It was declared that ten Macedonian Deputies who bolted from the Tsankov coalition caused the Government's fall. Promptly Tsar Boris of Bulgaria evinced his satisfaction at the fall of Tsankov by calling upon that noted Macedonian jack of all political trades, M. Andre Liaptcheff, to form a new government...
Observers were inclined to look upon the events of last week as a victory for "Little Tsar Boris" and his father, that arch plotter, the abdicated Tsar Ferdinand (TIME, Nov. 16). It was felt to be obvious that M. Liaptcheff, a greying political veteran of three score, will prove more easily manageable than the ruthless arch individualist, Tsankov...
...commenting upon the behavior of the Imperial family, the nun alleged that the daughters of the Tsar "employed their graces" to gain the sympathy of the guards for their father and the Tsarevitch. The editor of Krasnya warmly defended his action in publishing the story: "I am a good Communist. ... I wanted people to know that the Tsar is really dead, because of the spread of a false rumor that Lord Kitchener smuggled him to a Buddhist monastery in Tibet. ... I want everyone to know that Comrade Wykoff annihilated the last vestige of the Tsar with sulphuric acid...
Anastasia. At Berlin the Danish Minister, Herlui Zahle, confirmed rumors that King Christian X of Denmark has been assisting his aunt, the aged Dowager Empress Dagmar, widow of Tsar Alexander III, to pursue a careful inquiry as to whether a certain "Frau von Tchaikovski" now in a Berlin sanitarium is really the Grand Duchess Anastasia, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II. "Frau von Tchaikovski" is suffering from complete nervous and mental breakdown, and bears the scars of bullet wounds on her scalp and abdomen. Two former servants of the Grand Duchess Anastasia have positively identified...