Sentences with phrase «tsar in»

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

But then a train arrives in the village, a train carrying untold wealth, a cornucopia of food, and a noble family destined to visit the Tsar in Saint Petersburg - a family that includes Ekaterina, a girl of Elena's age.

Former Labour Cabinet minister Lord Adonis quit his job as government infrastructure tsar in protest at Brexit, which he is determined to «sabotage».

The impression of turmoil and confusion deepened on Friday, when the Labour peer Lord Adonis resigned as May's infrastructure tsar in protest at her handling of Brexit, which he described as «a dangerous populist and nationalist spasm worthy of Donald Trump».

David Cameron made Sir James his technology tsar in 2009 as part of his Get Britain Working masterplan.

Namely when he was forced to resign as Labour's social media tsar in 2012 after posting a spoof video online which compared Alex Salmond to Adolf Hitler...

Not exact matches

That's hundreds of millions of times as much as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 and roughly 163,000 times as much as the Soviet Union's test of Tsar Bomba on October 30, 1961.

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.

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.

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?

It was filmed inside the Church of All Saints in Yekaterinburg - a Russian Orthodox church built on the spot Tsar Nicholas II and his family were killed in 1918.

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.

Russia was birthed in tribal conquest and struggle, rose and fell under vikings and princes, khans and tsars — like any former empire, her past is scarred by triumph and shame.

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.

When, in 1613, the first Tsar of a new dynasty (the Romanov) was brought to the throne, his father, as Patriarch, closely cooperated with him; together they restored order and gave stability to the new ruling line.

When, in 1700, the Patriarch died, the Tsar saw to it that no successor was appointed.

In addition, as Mahoney points out, anyone who reads The Russian Question at the End of the Twentieth Century can see that Solzhenitsyn repeatedly criticizes Russian tsars for favoring imperialism over internal development.

Dessert was Siberian frozen cranberry cream garnished with pine nuts and wild berries, accompanied by sweet red and white wines from the Massandra Winery in the Crimea, established by Tsar Nicholas II in the 1890s, around the same time the new Trans - Siberian tracks were being laid across Russia.

Just ask competition tsar Rod Sims, who successfully prosecuted Coles in the Federal Court for «serious, deliberate and repeated» cases of «misusing their bargaining power».

In fact the USA has intervened in the Russia civil war by siding with the Tsar (an autocratic system like Monarchy; even though Woodrow Wilson was known for its idealist, non-interventionist, mindsetIn fact the USA has intervened in the Russia civil war by siding with the Tsar (an autocratic system like Monarchy; even though Woodrow Wilson was known for its idealist, non-interventionist, mindsetin the Russia civil war by siding with the Tsar (an autocratic system like Monarchy; even though Woodrow Wilson was known for its idealist, non-interventionist, mindset).

Businessman and TV star Alan Sugar has been appointed as David Cameron's new enterprise tsar — despite having clashed with the prime minister in previous years.

London 2012 tsar Seb Coe looks pained in this pre-Olympics picture — and not just because his glamorous job has descended into a perpetual photo op in a construction yard.

Lord Young's appointment as enterprise tsar is to be welcomed, but cuts in regulation and red tape can not come soon enough for small businesses.

The Sunday Telegraph revealed in May how Mr Cameron had appointed Mr Field, who was welfare reform minister in the early years of Tony Blair's government, as his «poverty tsar» as he put the fight against deprivation at the heart of his agenda.

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?

Since the formation of the coalition, the government have been handing out non-jobs like sweeties in order to maximise the so - called «Payroll vote» (despite many of these roles — such as junior whips and Higher Education Tsar being unpaid).

In 2004 he made a deliberate calculation: to reposition himself as a New Labour - type race relations tsar.

One plan, which has already been floated informally, is for him to be appointed to a «tsar» role overseeing a key policy programme which would give him access to the Treasury, until he could make a full ministerial return in a reshuffle.

Lord Adonis is calling for the resignation of transport secretary Chris Grayling for using hundreds of millions in taxpayers» money to bail out private rail companies — a decision which the former government infrastructure tsar says is symptomatic of a government that has «broken down» under the strain of Brexit.

As some Russian tsar said of the Ottoman empire in the nineteenth century, «We have a sick man on our hands».

Media smears, too, can land: one middle - aged voter in Trafford, previously Labour, yelled at me that Jeremy Corbyn was a Russian spy who would make the tsar ruler of the country, and that he needed «shooting».

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.

by Atul Hatwal In the week that newspaper hacking exploded back onto the front pages, it has emerged that the company run by David Cameron's American crime tsar, Bill Bratton, is mired in a British court case accused of illegal bugging and hackinIn the week that newspaper hacking exploded back onto the front pages, it has emerged that the company run by David Cameron's American crime tsar, Bill Bratton, is mired in a British court case accused of illegal bugging and hackinin a British court case accused of illegal bugging and hacking.

In 1742, Christian Goldbach, math tutor to Tsar Peter II, guessed that any even number greater than two can be written as the sum of two prime numbers.

The impact that produced the crater was two million times more powerful than the largest nuclear device ever tested, a 58 - megaton hydrogen bomb known as Tsar Bomba, detonated by the Soviet Union in 1961.

DNA testing for 17 Y - STR markers was conducted on the remains from Tsar Nicholas II and his son, the Tsarevich Alexei (sample 146.1 in the second grave).

The look as In The Name Of The Tsar wasn't the only thing mentioned for Battlefield 1, as EA teased a Gamescom announcement where new modes will be announced too.

McKellen has also been honored for his extensive television work, from the miniseries The Prisoner to his monumental performance in King Lear: from his reincarnation of Tsar Nicholas II in the telefilm Rasputin, to his classic guesting as himself in HBO's Extras.

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.

Thanks to Malvo's Old Testament - tinged blackmail of God - fearing supermarket tsar Stavros Milos (which includes loosing a plague of locusts on his store and bathing him in pig's blood), we finally find out what happened to the briefcase full of cash that, in the film, was buried in the snow.

The government's social mobility tsar has criticised expected plans to lift the ban on opening new grammar schools, warning it would be a «disaster» for education in England.

Overview: Page 1: Russia in pictures Page 2/3: Brief introduction Page 4: Tsars Page 5 - 6: The Soviet Union Page 7: The Cold War Page 8 - 9: Famous Russian People Page 10 - 11: Attractions Page 12 - 13: Oligarchs Page 14 - 15: Wildlife in Siberia Page 16: Reflection The answers and an answer key are included.

Russia needed to secure a foothold in the east as well as securing the vast expanses of Siberia, so in 1891 Tsar Alexander III approved a plan for a trans - continental line linking Moscow and St Petersburg with Vladivostok on the Pacific coast, as this was the only year - round ice - free port in Russia.

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.

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.

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 autocratic reign of the Tsars came to an end in 1917, sparked by economic hardship instigated by Russia's involvement in World War I, rapid urban growth, and the rise of the middle class.