Word: tsarina
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...Until then," the Tsarina went on, "we enjoyed a pleasant, if rather insubstantial, life. We used to haunt the Casino at Monte Carlo. But after the partition of Poland, Nicky insisted on returning to Russia. He began to attend the meetings of the Politburo. The Politburo! Oh, those interminable speeches. . . . Ah, Katorga...
...began," said the Tsarina wearily, "with the German-Russian partition of Poland...
...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...