Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always wanted to take those Poles down a peg," the Tsar broke in, "but something was always tying my hands...
...Madam," said a male ghost, rising on tiptoe to speak over his wife's shoulder (he also had a bullet hole in his forehead), "I am Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Tsar of Moscow, Kiev, Novgorod, Kazan, Astrakhan, of Poland, Siberia and Georgia, Grand Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania, Podolia and Finland, Prince of Estonia, Livonia and Bialystok, Lord of Pskov, Riazan, Yaroslavl, Vitebsk and All the Region of the North, Lord...
...said the Tsar eagerly, elbowing his wife's ghost out of the way. "What statesmanship! What vision...
...retreat from Moscow was over; in a room at Fontainebleau, the defeated Emperor Napoleon meditated suicide. "Preceded by the enormous Cossacks of the Imperial Guard . . . [Tsar Alexander I] rode slowly through the streets. In gaping astonishment the citizens of Paris gazed upon their conqueror. His enormous feet were thrust into stirrups of wrought gold . . . above the gold collar . . . they saw the face of a benignant calf...
...victory. Britons were in no doubt that their 20 years' resistance to Napoleon had been decisive. Austria believed that her support had tipped the balance; Prussia gloried in the exploits of her flaming youths, who had chivied Napoleon's rearguard on the way home from Moscow. Tsar Alexander was so sure he had won singlehanded that he managed to forget completely that he had been Napoleon's ally-until Napoleon had invaded Russia. He sternly charged the King of Saxony (who had backed the wrong horse too long) with being "a traitor to the common cause." "That...