Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Matters came to a head last week when the Bolshevik Government requested the banishment of the Dowager Empress of Russia, Marie Féodorovna, mother of the ill-fated Tsar Nicholas...
From 1881 to 1894, she was Empress of Russia as the consort of Alexander III, and during this time endeared herself much to the Russian people. After the death of Alexander she kept away from the Tsarskoe Selo (Village of the Tsar) and the Winter Palace, resided for the most part in Moscow...
...after the abdication, she, like so many of the Imperial family, left the country secretly and returned to her native land, Denmark, where she has since been resident. When the ghastly news of the fate of the Tsar and his family convulsed the world with disgust and loathing for the Bolsheviki, she declined to believe that her son and his family were murdered. From that day to this, despite that unfortunate confirmation of the worst, she has remained steadfast in her belief that Tsar Nicholas still lives...
...same evening in Sanders Theatre, a concert by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting. The program, embraces Emmanuel Bach's Concerto for Orchestra, the "Venusberg music" from "Tannhaeuser," the Prelude to Mussorgsky's opera, "Khovantchina," a Scherzo from Rimsky-Korsakov's opera, "Tsar Salten" and Brahms' Fourth Symphony...
This afternoon and tomorrow evening in Symphony Hall, the third pair of concerts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting. The programme traverses a Concerto for Orchestra by P. E. Bach, Moussorgaky's Prelude to "Khoranochina", a Scherzo, "The Flight of the Bumble Bee" from "Tsar Saltan," Prokovier's Seythian Suite and Brahm's Fourth Symphony...