Sentences with phrase «last tsar»

Day 9 In Yekaterinburg, visit the preserved city and «fairy - tale» Church on the Blood, which commemorates the site where Russia's last Tsar was shot.

Arrive in Yekaterinburg, where Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.

Comprehensive and well documented, this biography of the last Tsar's four daughters stops just short of their violent deaths as the tide turns in Russia.

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It is a strange and engrossing work, written in a manner that many have compared to Tolstoy: stories within stories, huge chunks of raw material gleaned from the newspapers and agitprop pamphlets of the time, seemingly endless speeches by would - be rulers in the doomed Duma, and all against the background of a weak and ineffectual Tsar dominated by his wife and «our Friend,» Rasputin, with Lenin seething and scheming in Switzerland, waiting for his time to come round at last.

Last Friday, Alan Sugar was appointed as enterprise tsar by the prime minister as part of his cabinet reshuffle and government overhaul.

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 last tranche of the funding, which covers the south of England, will go to Anvil Education Limited, a company owned by government behaviour tsar Tom Bennett.

In The Kitchen Boy, Robert Alexander dramatizes their last days from the point of view of a servant boy, a lens that allows him to portray both the humanity of the tsar and his wife and children, who were by all accounts a close and loving family, and the deprivations suffered by most of the Russian people thanks to Tsar Nicolai's oppressive polictsar and his wife and children, who were by all accounts a close and loving family, and the deprivations suffered by most of the Russian people thanks to Tsar Nicolai's oppressive policTsar Nicolai's oppressive policies.

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.

The Russian jeweler Karl Fabergé, arguably the most famous jeweler of all time, crafted objects for the families of the last two tsars of Russia and for most of Europe's nobility.

In the last 18 months we've had revised adoption guidance from Government, new adoption scorecards, the appointment of an adoption Tsar, an adopters» charter, an expert working group on redesigning adoption, an action plan for adoption, a House of Lords select committee inquiry into adoption and fostering to adoption measures will be included in the forthcoming Children and Families Bill.