Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prince Felix Yusupov, traveling as Count Sumarokov-Elston, accompanied by his wife, Princess Irene, second cousin of the Tsar and daughter of the Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovitch, and Baroness Wrangel, wife of the famed General whose White Army failed to overthrow the Bolshevik régime in Russia, arrived in the U. S. on board the S. S. Berengaria...
...Wilson's utterances on the League of Nations. The two movements in the modern world which have aimed at stabilizing peace were undertaken at the Congress of Vienna (1814-15) and at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. One of the foremost men in promoting peace at Vienna was Tsar Alexander I (1801-25): one of the foremost at Paris was Woodrow Wilson, President of the U. S. Both these men were high-minded idealists (considering, in Tsar Alexander...
...glowing terms Mme. Viroubova describes the popularity of the Tsar with the Russian people; with almost pathetic directness she depicts the gradual chilling of this apparent deep-rooted loyalty of the masses; she describes, perhaps too perfunctorily, the reasons for the fall of the dynasty. Says she: "Russia, like eighteenth-century France, passed through a period of acute insanity. . . . This insanity was by no means confined to the ranks of the so-called Revolutionists. It pervaded the Duma, the highest ranks of society, Royalty itself (not meaning the immediate family of the Tsar), all as guilty of Russia...
Under the headline-YOU RICH GIRLS, HERE COMES KING SEEKING A BRIDE!, the New York American printed a Universal Service press despatch which announced the imminent world tour of Tsar Boris of Bulgaria. According to this report, the King will go to Rome, Paris, Brussels, London, Berlin, Copenhagen looking for a princess with whom to mate. If he is unsuccessful, he will come to the U. S. and " unite the Saxe-Coburg und Gotha dynasty with the new aristocracy of wealth...
...Tsar Boris III is 29 and popular and is loved by the peasants as much as his father, Tsar Ferdinand, was hated by them. He is a good sportsman and particularly fond of riding and hunting. He believes that to rule he must hold his crown by deeds and not only by heredity. There have been frequent rumors of an " American visit" during the past two years. Generally he has shaken his head, laughed a denial, or said he was too busy, when questioned about marrying an American bride. The late Premier Stambuliski was very keen for him to make...