Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...zenith of his power the last Tsar Nicholas of Russia was notorious as a faineant who allowed others to direct even his policies. A sharp question would probably have revealed that he had no idea whether there was a Russian garrison in Persia or not. Had Nicholas possessed the grasp of detail of a Napoleon he could not but have known of a certain utterly obscure private in that garrison whom the world has come to know as Reza Khan, Dictator of Persia...
...year-old Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of the Tsar and Tsarina, perish with her foully murdered parents and relations at Ekaterinburg? Has or has not the real Grand Duchess, now 24 years old been discovered in Berlin? These are questions that were being elucidated in the German metropolis, not without much excitement among the emigres...
Born. To Serge Platonovitch Obolensky Neledinsky Meletsky, Russian prince who claims descent from Rurik, founder of the Russian Monarchy, and Princess Obolensky (Alice Muriel Astor, daughter of the late John Jacob Astor), a son. The Prince's first wife was a daughter of Tsar Alexander...
...recalled that Germany was the last nation in the War to desire the rehabilitation of the Tsar's army (for which purpose Kitchener started to Russia), and entered into negotiations with the revolutionaries for the express purpose of demoralizing not only the military but the civil power. It is a matter of common knowledge that this insidious bit of weltpolitik was only too successful; and it hardly seems possible that Germany can escape the responsibility (as an act of war) for Kitchener's death...
...Majesty Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria and M. Iltcheff, Director of the Sofia Museum, comfortably seated in an automobile, were being whirled along the white road that lies between Orchanie, a country town, and Sofia, the capital. As the car passed along a narrow strip of road between two high banks, a volley of shots rang out. M. Iltcheff and a servant were killed, the chauffeur was wounded, one side of the King's moustache was clipped. Instantly, the King took control of the car but, failing to turn it on account of the broken steering gear, jumped...