Sentences with phrase «became tsar»
He became Tsar of All Russia but was known for cruelty, one of the most notable examples being the Massacre of Novgorod in 1570 where thousands died.
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Britain will become a «laughing stock» if a decision on building a third runway at Heathrow Airport is delayed further, the Government's own infrastructure tsar warned yesterday.
Bakewell was the tsar for the elderly in the last Labour government and will now become a working peer, even though her support for a means - tested winter fuel allowance is at odds with Miliband's stated commitment to universalism.
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.
Catherine had a summer abode — Catherine Palace — built in what became known as the Tsars» Village.
Talk: «My Hermitage celebration with Dr. Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky» at Rizzoli Bookstore Dr. Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky, Director of the State Hermitage Museum, sits down with Philadelphia Museum of Art Director Timothy Rub to discuss the former's newly published book — My Hermitage: How the Hermitage Survived Tsars, Wars, and Revolutions to become the Greatest Museum in the World — that explores the culture history of the collection.