Word: tzar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the Bolsheviks renounced Russian expansionism under Tzar Nicholas, within several years, they "began to behave in the imperial tradition," he said at the symposium on "Russia: The Continuities of Bureaucracy: State Power and Continental Empire...
...duty in India, and, yes, her dogs. When she died in the Dorset village of Maiden Newton in 1978, discreet as an old teacup at the age of 84, she already passed for an Edwardian relic, inhabiting, in her own words, a "long, long ago, when there was a Tzar in Russia, and scarcely an automobile or a divorced person in Mayfair...