Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty" Cyril I, "Tsar of All the Russias," decided to convoke a "Crown Council of all Russian Grand...
...comic behind these grandiloquent phrases was that the "Tsar of All the Russias," known as "Cyrille Égalité'' (TIME, Nov. 17), is recognized by only a handful of Grand Dukes. Last September, he took the singularly inconsequental step of proclaiming himself Tsar, as if Tsar, crownless and throneless, had any significance...
...place of the gorgeous toilettes and magnificent uniforms worn in the Tsar's time, men and women came in street dress, a few in evening clothes. The fashion among the women was said to be sweater, blouse, skirt...
Thus, she will have nothing to do with the self-proclaimed Tsar, Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovitch, first cousin of the late Tsar. To her, as to man}' Russian royalists, he is merely the thoroughly despised "Cyrille Égalité," the Prince who openly welcomed the Revolution after having plotted against the Tsar. With the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievitch, first cousin, once removed, of the late Tsar, she is on better terms and it is said that if she favored anybody for the succession it would...
...hour of the reception arrived. At the top of the famous staircase where the Tsar's Ambassadors used to receive the élite, stood M. and Mme. Rakovsky in front of a bust of Lenin. The first to arrive was H. G. Wells, followed by G. B. Shaw, Arthur Henderson, George Lansbury, Oswald Mosley, radical son-in-law of Marquis Curzon...