Sentences with phrase «between tsar»

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.

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If the towing wars between Detroit's heavy - duty pickups are an automotive cold war, the 2013 Ram 3500 is the Tsar Bomba.

The second train travels overnight to Ekaterinburg, in the centre of the Ural Mountains, the natural border between Europe and Asia and a place of great historical significance as it was founded by Peter the Great in 1723 and was the assassination site of the last Russian Tsar Nicolas II.

For centuries, the rivers, canals and lakes of northwest Russia provided the tsars with a serene and luxurious means of travel between the imperial powerhouses of Moscow and St Petersburg and they remain the most relaxing way to experience two of the world's greatest cities.

Events follow that of Nikolai Orelov in a time between that of The Fall and The Chain as he steals from the Bolsheviks holding the Tsar's family hostage.

SWIF's performance was evaluated during disturbed conditions against standard models (e.g., climatology and persistence) and other forecasting models of different philosophy such as the TSAR that is a purely autoregressive technique and the Geomagnetically Correlated Autoregression Model — GCAM (Muhtarov et al. 2002) that is driven by the geomagnetic activity level by incorporating the cross-correlation between the foF2 and the Ap - index into the auto - correlation analysis (Tsagouri et al. 2009).