Sentences with phrase «tsars lived»

It's mind boggling to see how lavishly the imperial Tsars lived.

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Ma, once a vice minister of state security, is the most senior security official to be investigated since the former domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang was ensnared in a graft scandal and jailed for life in 2015.

Who would have imagined that today I would be writing freely, praying freely, breathing freely, standing on free soil, while Zhou, once nicknamed China's «security tsar,» would be sentenced to life in prison for corruption by his political enemies?

Of course, no one in Vermillion knew that jolly little Alexander Pell had started life as Sergei Degaev, the Russian revolutionary who, on December 16, 1883, achieved international fame for murdering Georgii Sudeikin, the all - powerful head of the Tsar's secret police.

Picking up the point that my hon. Friend the Member for Havant (Mr. Willetts) made, I wonder whether the Minister agrees with her new noble Friend Lord Sugar, the Prime Minister's enterprise tsar, who said that those small businesses that are trying to seek credit are merely moaners and living in Disneyland?

His remarks were seen as an offensive throwback to Thatcher - era harsh rhetoric, and are bound to lead to Labour calls for his dismissal as enterprise tsar on the grounds he is totally out of touch with the squeeze on living standards almost all voters are experiencing.

But you could ask me A detailed biography of Tsar Nicholas II that includes includes images, quotations and the main facts of his life.

The Witch writer / director Robert Eggers has been tapped to pen a six to eight episode miniseries based on the life of Grigori Rasputin, the «Mad Monk» who became one of Tsar Nicholas II's closest advisors.

EA also chatted about Battlefield 1's In the Name of the Tsar expansion, the next two Battlefield 1 expansions after that, new content for Battlefield 1 Premium players, FIFA 18, FIFA 18 on Switch, Madden NFL 18 and NBA Live 18.

The film details (with a large dollop of artistic licence) the real - life relationship between tsar Nicholas II and prima ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya, an affair which almost derailed his 1896 coronation and, some argue, set in train the events which led to the revolution of 1917.

Her account provides not only intimate portraits of Tsar Nicholas II; his wife, Alexandra; and the five Romanov children, but it also offers a beautifully realized examination of the context of their lives — Russia in a state of increasing social unrest and turmoil.

History comes to vivid life in Fleming's sweeping story of the dramatic decline and fall of the House of Romanov, which provides not only intimate portraits of Tsar Nicholas II; his wife, Alexandra; and the five Romanov children but also offers a beautifully realized examination of the context of their lives....

A fictional nineteenth - century pastoral painting by real - life Chechen painter, Pyotr Zakharov - Chechenets, features in one of the stories in The Tsar of Love and Techno.

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.

An historic hotel where the decor is inspired by the decadence of Imperial Russia, you'll live like a Tsar in this palace.

Over the centuries, the Tsars continued to spend their summers living it up in Catherine Palace with its beautiful formal gardens until 1917 and the Bolshevik Revolution, when the palace was turned into a museum.

Today during Live @ EA PLAY, DICE revealed new details for Battlefield ™ 1 In the Name of the Tsar, which will expand the global conflict to the largest front...

Today during Live @ EA PLAY, DICE revealed new details for Battlefield ™ 1 In the Name of the Tsar, which will expand the global conflict to the largest front of World War I.

He comes from a long line of important government officials; his grandfather was the Minister of Education for Tsar Nicholas II and one of the few in his government to get out of Russia with his life.