Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are two factions: One is headed by Grand Duke Kyrill, cousin of the late Tsar, who styles himself "Tsar of All the Russias"; the other, by Grank Duke Nikolai Nikolaievitch, first cousin once removed of the Tsar and former Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Imperial Army, who opposes Kyrill's pretensions on the ground that they violate the wishes of the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna and the Romanov family council...
Last week, a formal feud was opened when the "Tsar" announced, according to buzzing emigre circles in the present capital of Tsarist Russia, Paris, that all those emigres who refused to recognize him as Tsar will be refused admittance by a terrestrial St. Peter when the gates of the Tsarist kingdom are opened...
...daughter (seven and one-half pounds); in Manhattan. He is the 'son of the late Princess Anastasia of Greece (who was the wife of William B. Leeds, tin-plate king, before she married Prince Christopher); she is the daughter of Grand Duke George, second cousin of the late Tsar...
...Nicholas I., great-grandfather of the late Tsar, ruled from...
...Leary" whose famed cow kicked over the lantern that started the Chicago fire of 1871. At his palatial combination saloon and gambling house he took bets on anything from horses to the weather, until Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (the now "Baseball Tsar") ordered it closed...