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...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...
...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...
Divorced. By Maria Rasputin Bern, 45, animal-taming daughter of mad, murdered Grigory Rasputin, spiritual adviser to the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia: Gregory Bern (formerly Bernadsky), 44, electrical engineer; after six years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
...Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's least known operas is Tsar Saltan. A skip-along scherzo in its second act has become one of the inevitable pieces in any violinist's repertory: Flight of the Bumblebee. Last week Rimsky-Korsakov's little earsore was a strong jukebox nickel-puller, helped by a steady left-hand beat, and a new name: Bumble Boogie...