Sentences with phrase «red tsar»

Montefiore's second book on Stalin (following Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar) can be appreciated on so many levels — for its depth of research, for its detailed historical perspective and for giving us such an intimate look at Stalin's life.

Young Stalin is the prequel to Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar which received the History Book of the Year Prize at the 2004 British Book Awards.

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Dessert was Siberian frozen cranberry cream garnished with pine nuts and wild berries, accompanied by sweet red and white wines from the Massandra Winery in the Crimea, established by Tsar Nicholas II in the 1890s, around the same time the new Trans - Siberian tracks were being laid across Russia.

So the appointment of Lord Young as enterprise tsar is welcome news for the 4.8 million small firms as he understands their needs - he is avidly against red tape, one of the biggest bugbears for any business.

Lord Young's appointment as enterprise tsar is to be welcomed, but cuts in regulation and red tape can not come soon enough for small businesses.

By the time you finish, you feel as though you know this temperamental, 6 - foot - 7 red - headed Russian tsar personally — maybe that's why I hopped straight into his lap when we met inside the Peter & Paul Fortress almost two years ago.

Explore the imperial twin cities of St. Petersburg and Moscow as they are today and their influence over the centuries and a fascinating encounter with the iconic sites of the Hermitage Museum, Tsar's Winter Palace, Red Square and the Kremlin.