Word: tsarina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Well," said the Tsarina, "if you can foresee all that, why don't you do something to prevent...
...know what it's like to be a ghost: le silence éternel de ces espaces in finis m'effraie-the eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me. Pascal said that, you know. Not bad for a man who had never been liquidated. And then," the Tsarina added, "Stalin overran Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania...
...Grazhdanka! (citizeness)," cried the Tsarina, "you have been reading banned books. Those are the views of the renegade Leon Trotsky...
...Death," said the Tsarina, "is a somewhat maturing experience. What Nicky means is that between two systems of society, which embody diametrically opposed moral and political principles, even peace may be only a tactic of struggle...
...History drew the Tsarevich to her, for he had become restless. "Poor little bleeder," she said, stroking his hair, "different only in the organic nature of your disease from so many others who have bled and died. In answer to your question, Madam," she said, glancing at the Tsarina, "I never permit my foreknowledge to interfere with human folly, if only be cause I never expect human folly to learn much from history...