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unusual facts about Czar



Aleksei Volkov

Aleksei Andreyevich Volkov (1859–1929), valet at the court of the Russian czar Nicholas II

Aleksey Belevsky-Zhukovsky

Alexei Alexeevich was born to Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia, the son of Czar Alexander II of Russia, and Alexandra Vasilievna Zhukovskaya, daughter of famous Russian poet Vasily Zhukovsky.

Anastasia, the False Czar's Daughter

Anastasia, the False Czar's Daughter (German:Anastasia, die falsche Zarentochter) is a 1928 German silent drama film directed by Arthur Bergen and starring Lee Parry, Hans Stüwe and Elizza La Porta.

Andrea de Cesaris

Long absent from the Formula One paddock, Andrea appeared at the 2005 Monaco Grand Prix, and was welcomed back with a warm hug from former Brabham team boss and Formula One czar Bernie Ecclestone.

Ange Hyacinthe Maxence, baron de Damas

After his father Charles's death at Quiberon, Maxence de Damas, maternally a great-grandson of the Irish war hero General Sarsfield, was led by his uncle the Duke of Richelieu, who presented him to Czar Paul I to join the military cadet school in Saint Petersburg.

Animate Objects

CZAR Absolute was asked to participate in the 2003 Triangle Fraternity Battle of the Bands at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Confessions of a Cheat

In Paris, he is unwillingly drawn into a plot to assassinate the visiting Czar Nicholas II of Russia by fellow restaurant worker Serge Abramich.

Director of National Intelligence Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies

The group included former counter-terrorism czar Richard A. Clarke, former Acting CIA director Michael Morell, University of Chicago Law professor Geoffrey Stone, former administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Cass Sunstein and former Chief Counselor for Privacy in the Office of Management and Budget Peter Swire.

Drastamat Kanayan

Inspired by stories of General Andranik's triumphs in the Ottoman Empire and the spread of nationalism by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Drastamat joined a secret youth movement in his school that opposed the Czar's government and promoted Armenian nationalism.

Drug czar

In the UK, Keith Hellawell, former Drugs Advisor to the Labour government of Tony Blair, has been referred to as a drug czar.

Emperor of Norfolk

Marian, mated to Norfolk, both living at either Winters' second stud farm, the Rancho Del Rio near Sacramento on the banks of the Sacramento River or on his Yolo County, California, spread, produced numerous outstanding runners: Duchess of Norfolk, Prince of Norfolk, The Czar, El Rio Rey, Rey Del Rey, and Emperor of Norfolk.

Great Tower Street

A public house called the Czar's Head used to stand at No. 48, so named because Peter the Great used to drink there when he was learning shipbuilding at Deptford.

Haparanda

The town of Tornio, located on the island Suensaari in the river delta became part of the Grand Duchy of Finland within the Russian Empire as demanded by czar Alexander I.

Helsinki Senate Square

During the Russification of Finland from 1899 onwards, the statue became a symbol of quiet resistance, with people of Helsinki protesting to the decrees of Nicholas II leaving flowers at the foot of the statue of his grandfather, then known in Finland as "the good czar".

Henry Ambrose Hunt

Hunt was born in London and as a child spent three years in St Petersburg with his father Edwin Hunt, a marine engineer, who was working designing battleship engines for the Russian Czar.

Issues relating to biofuels

Steven Rattner, former "auto czar" for U.S. President Barack Obama, wrote an Op-ed for The New York Times in June, 2011, entitled "The Great Corn Con," characterizing ethanol as "an example of government policy run amok."

John Bythesea

On 9 August 1854 in the Baltic, Lieutenant Bythesea obtained permission to land on the island of Vårdö, Åland Islands off Finland with a Swedish-speaking crewman Stoker William Johnstone, to intercept important despatches from the Czar which were being sent via Vårdö to Bomarsund.

John Eleuthère du Pont

The petition claims that during that period, du Pont asserted alternately that he was Jesus Christ, the Dalai Lama and a Russian Czar.

Joseph A. Conry

Conry was decorated by Czar Nicholas II, and was made a member of the Knights of St. Anne.

Joshua ben Aaron Zeitlin

During the Russo-Turkish war he was a contractor for the Russian army, and on August 1, 1879, Czar Alexander II awarded him a medal in recognition of his services.

Just de Noailles

Louis XVIII treated him extremely well with Compiègne, created him Knight of the Order of Saint-Louis and commander of the Légion d'honneur on 13 August 1814 and named him ambassador to Saint Petersburg, where he remained until 1819; persona grata with the czar, he was the only foreign minister allowed at the imperial table on the dinner of 24 December 1814.

Karosta

The army headquarters include czar-era mansions used by admirals, a palace for the czar (reportedly only used once), an impressive Russian Orthodox naval cathedral, as well as underground bunkers and abandoned storehouses.

Le Curé de Tours

(7) Troubert is bracketed, perhaps somewhat improbably, with Pope Sixtus V, Pope Gregory VII, Pope Alexander VI, Pope Innocent III and Czar Peter the Great of Russia.

Louis Buchalter

Lowell described Buchalter (whom he calls "Czar Lepke") in his poem "Memories of West Street and Lepke", published in his book Life Studies (1959).

Makau W. Mutua

In 2006, he was legal counsel to John Githongo, the former Kenyan anti-corruption czar who exposed the Anglo Leasing scams in the Kibaki Government.

Mark Souder

In early 2006, Souder added, to a bill about the office of the drug czar, a provision calling for the fungus Fusarium oxysporum to be used as a biological control agent against drug crops in foreign countries.

Millionnaya Street

In Soviet times the street was named Khalturina Street, in honor of the Narodnik revolutionary Stepan Khalturin, who detonated a bomb in the Winter Palace in 1880 that caused 67 casualties (but failed to kill the Czar).

MS Helliar

In August 1998 she was chartered to Czar Peter Line and put into service on the MoerdijkKronstadt route.

Nicholas Salos of Pskov

However, during the raid Nicholas reprimanded the czar causing him to retreat his force to Alexandrov.

Papaya King

Jonathan Lethem's novels Motherless Brooklyn and Chronic City both mention hot dogs from "Papaya Czar"; in the latter, this is in its actual location on 86th Street and 3rd Avenue.

Russian language in the United States

More than 200 years later, in 1867, Alaska was sold to the United States by Czar Alexander II.

Russian personal name

For example: Trofimko Czar (Torpes the Czar), Fedka Knyazets, Karp Guba, Prokopiy Gorbun (Procopius the Humpback), Amvrosiy Kovyazin, Sidorko Litvin.

San Angeles

In 2006, Marissa Mayer, Google's then 31-year-old product-launch czar, seized on the San Angeles concept to describe how Google might modify its home page:We're still not ready to make really fundamental changes and blast all of our products on our home page.

Tazza

It was presented by Czar Nicholas II to August Heckscher in 1910 and given to the Linda Hall Library in 1972 by Mrs. Helen Spencer.

The Czar and the Carpenter

The Czar and the Carpenter (German title:Zar und Zimmermann) is a 1956 East German musical comedy film directed by Hans Müller and starring Willy A. Kleinau, Bert Fortell and Lore Frisch.

The Man from St. Petersburg

In the final chapter, Winston Churchil - at the time First Lord of the Admiralty and having recent experience as Home Secretary - arrives on the scene and formulates a comprehensive plan for damage control: Disposing of Feliks' body, hiding that such a person ever existed and regretfully informing the Czar that his nephew died in the fire but had already signed the treaty.

Truman Gibson

Two years later, Mr. Gibson and four co-defendants – Frankie Carbo, once described by the New York district attorney's office as "the underworld czar of boxing", Louis Tom Dragna, Joe Sica, and Frank Palermo – were convicted in federal court of conspiracy and extortion in an effort to siphon off earnings from the welterweight champion Don Jordan.

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

After the abdication of the czar and the start of the process of the destruction of the Russian Empire many people in Ukraine wished to establish a Ukrainian Republic.

Valentin Rasputin

He was an honoured guest for many events in the city of Irkutsk, including the unveilings of the monuments to Czar Alexander III, Alexander Vampilov and Admiral Kolchak.

Valentin Yordanov

The petition claims that during that period, duPont asserted alternately that he was Jesus Christ, the Dalai Lama and a Russian Czar.

Vlach law

Their obligations are, however, clearly shown by the so-called "law of the Vlachs", found in the hrisov of Banja and in two of Czar Dusan's donations, those from Vranje and Prizren.

Yuly Rybakov

He was arrested by the KGB in 1976 for taking part in the dissident movement for human rights, as well as the distribution of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's books, leaflets and creating slogans (such as the inscription on the wall of the bastion of the Czar's Peter and Paul Fortress: "you may crucify freedom, but the human soul knows no shackles").


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