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...early in World War I. During a Russian attack in 1915, a Circassian cavalryman impaled Tito with his lance, nearly killing him; he spent 13 months in a Russian prison hospital. He was an inmate of the Kungur prison camp near Perm in 1917 when the news arrived of Tsar Nicholas II's abdication; citizens promptly freed Kungur's prisoners...
...hold on the many Russian chauvinists in the elite, who believe that alien forces have caused their homeland's troubles down through the ages. One handy target is the German-born Alexandra, who is described in the novel as a featherbrained traitor to Russia. Pikul's fictional Tsar Alexander III is quoted as saying of his future daughter-in-law and her German relatives, "I have a feeling they have a lot in their pants but very little under their hats...
...respects, Rasputin would appear to be an unlikely hero to Soviet human rights activists. But at least one celebrated dissident has taken up his cause. Andrei Amalrik told TIME last week that he was writing a book on Rasputin that would show the monk had a good influence on Tsar Nicholas II. "Rasputin was a very simple person with very good ideas," said the exiled Russian writer, who is doing research at the Hoover Institution in Palo Alto, Calif. "He wanted equal rights for Jews, a separate peace with Germany in World War I and the redistribution of land...
...Garfield. In London, he freed himself from a pair of "pick-proof" darbies, the handcuffs used by Scotland Yard. And then, during a European tour, he freed himself from the thumbscrews, elbow irons and chains of the Kaiser's Polizei, and escaped from one of the "carrettes" the Russian Tsar used to transport his prisoners to Siberia. Such feats were always met by the surprise, and frequent embarrassment, of the authorities...
...Lumiere brother shorts shot between 1895 and 1900 in Europe. Brought together under the title The Lumiere Years, these shorts apparently turned up after seventy years sitting in a trunk in the loft of an abandoned garage in Southern France. The shots of the Paris Exposition, the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II and a film of President McKinley preparing to invade Cuba constitute some of America's earliest documentary by two of movies' first greats...