Sentences with phrase «russian czar»

Those of you blessed with the ability to look like a Russian Czar in the span of a day have a pretty unfair advantage here.

Both the widescreen and full - frame versions of this romance / fantasy about the legendary lost daughter of the Russian czar are included, as are language tracks in French and Spanish.

He was commissioned by the Russian Czar Alexander to create an Easter gift for this wife, the Empress Marie.

Men with a vision of a new thing renounced the sovereignty of a George III, took arms against the tyranny of Louis XIV, and defied and displaced the despotism of the Russian Czar.

Remember who executed Russian czar and his children?

The Russian Czar wanted to give his wife, the Empress Marie an extremely unique Easter gift.

(2) The notion that Putin cares about persecuted Christians in the Middle East and wants to play the Russian czar's old role of their protector is both ridiculous and dangerous.

In the east, the Russian czars, jealous of the religious power of Kiev, made the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church the dominant force of eastern orthodoxy.

Russian czars once tried to create their own winery mimicking d'Yquem.

Not exact matches

In a conversation about Russian Orthodoxy some dozen years ago, that famous source who can only be quoted off - the - record, the Senior Vatican Official, said to me, «They only know how to be chaplain to the czar — whoever he is.»

Born in Russia and steeped in Russian Orthodoxy, Sorokin spent time in jail because of his resistance to the Czar.

Conditions were bad enough under the Czars but under Communism they have become worse because the Russians, whether White or Red, have always looked upon Islam with hatred.

Russia had gone through a bloody revolution that slaughtered off the Czar and Russian nobility and placed a dictatorship of Communists in control.

From the ascension of Czar Alexander III in 1881 until the revolution, Russian Jews were unremittingly persecuted.

Russian steel czar Roman Abramovich has tightened his grip on East 75th Street, scooping up a total of now four townhomes in a row.

When I was born, the czar still reigned over the great Russian empire and Poland was a mere trinket hanging from his belt.

Started by a trio of leaders that include a Kauai King, the Czar of Russia and a German doctor, Russian Fort Elizabeth dates back to the early 1800's and is on the way to Waimea Canyon.

So — he didn't attack «in early winter», he attacked in summer, achieved his goal of capture of the enemy's capital — but did not appreciate that the Czar and the Russian army would continue to resist after losing Moscow.

Friday's sanctions, which target Russian security services, energy czars and weapons companies, come in response to Russia's «malign activity across the world,» a senior administration official said, noting Russia's occupation of Crimea in Ukraine, support of the Bashar Assad dictatorship in Syria, subversion of Western democracies and continued belligerent cyber attacks.