Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place chosen for this celebration was the famed Houdinka Field, near Moscow, now used as an aerodrome, where in 1894, at the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, thousands of people were accidentally trampled to death as they scrambled for free food and wine. A Bolshevik, glowing with pride, said that "our organization is perfected to prevent a repetition of the disaster." An elderly woman nearby shuddered and crossed herself...
...mystery surrounding the fate of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, so often solved, has been solved again. In the expressive words of Le Matin, Paris Journal: "General Janin [onetime head of the French Mission in Siberia] has spoken." It appears that the General was given several urns of human ashes by the Russian General Diterichs and M. Gilliard, tutor to the little Tsarevitch. These gruesome relics he handed over to M. de Giers, quondam Russian Ambassador to Rome, and the latter has, apparently, handed them over to the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievitch, cousin of the Tsar and leader...
Married. Miss Glory Thomas of Manhattan, daughter of Augustus Thomas ("theatre tsar"), and William Elliott, Jr.; in Manhattan...
Prince Felix Yusupov and his wife Princess Irene, second cousin of Tsar Nicholas II and daughter of the Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovitch, steamed from Manhattan on the good ship Aquitania...
France. "We are going to help the Eastern people shake off the yoke of foreign domination. We shall never pay the Tsar's debt to France. We are standing firmly on our feet. The French know they will never overthrow...