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...Her admirers included Tsar Nicholas II, Queen Victoria, Georges Bizet, John Ruskin and Delacroix himself. Then she fell off the face of the earth. “How could such a person be forgotten?”...
...The hapless tsar, Nicholas II, appointed himself as his successor and so contributed to the doom hastening towards him....
...They shut down Russia’s elected Constituent Assembly, murdered Tsar Nicholas II and his family, set up the Cheka secret police and created the Comintern, a body dedicated to world revolution....
...Head of product Nicholas Bell declined to share a specific timeline for how long it would take to bring production home but says the brand will continue to “look for specialist manufacturers” as “we believe...
...two pals even run a sort-of-company together — an “immersive, futuristic, fantasy-based” AI-powered MMORPG called The RoyaLand that was apparently inspired by the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II...
...A conversation with Nicholas Serota, then director of Tate, about the lack of diversity in museum leadership led to the establishment of the Clore Leadership programme, a training course for professionals...
...Design lovers will also find a first: a collaboration with Tom Chapman, Nicholas Pickaerts’ Abask and Thierry Despont for the dressing of the communal areas and three show apartments....
...I spent a long time looking at the famous portrait of Pope Julius II....
...It now hangs dramatically opposite conceptualist photographer Thomas Struth’s “Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Elizabeth II” (2011) in a darkly receding Windsor Castle drawing room — a tour de...
...The combination of political repression and economic expansion also characterised the reigns of tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when Russia industrialised at...
...Mannerheim went to cavalry school in St Petersburg and was part of the guard of honour at tsar Nicholas II’s coronation in 1896....
...Doyen of the genre was Nicholas Hilliard, whose miniatures of both Elizabeth and Dudley are exhibited alongside each other here....
...Shoppa’s new home is an impressive two-storey Grade II-listed Georgian building with spaces mostly designed as specific rooms in which visitors are encouraged to lounge and linger....
...Originally directed by Nicholas Hytner in 2008, it veers from some imposingly gloomy settings to an embarrassing, cartoon-strip take on the Spanish Inquisition’s bloodthirsty auto-da-fé, which reads as if...
...II....
...“This is about evolution, not revolution,” said Hunt: “We are not seeking Big Bang II on this.”...
...Until April 30; further information and tickets here ‘Proud’, Design Museum Danmark An exhibition showcasing 21 folk and regional costumes with modern spins, all designed by artist Nicholas Nybro....
...Saturday’s coronation of King Charles III got Lex wondering what lay ahead for UK investors- and how different it might be from the 70 intervening years since the investiture of the late Queen Elizabeth II...
...I suspect a similar fate lies in wait for the UN . . . ” — Nicholas Chia...
...“We’ve developed a fabric with the New Denim Project in Guatemala,” explains Madan’s partner, Nicholas Ragosta....
...The Prudential Regulation Authority is engaging constructively on reforms of the so-called Solvency II for insurance....
...Reeves backed the proposal by Nicholas Lyons, lord mayor of the City of London, to create a £50bn growth fund, with 5 per cent of every defined contribution scheme’s assets invested in it....
...Nicholas Lyons, the veteran investment banker and insurance executive, wants to use his City contacts to broker discussions on proposed financial reforms in the Square Mile after he takes over the largely...
...“We are not seeking Big Bang II on this.”...
...Putin even quoted with approval Pyotr Stolypin, Nicholas II’s chief minister after the 1905 revolution: “In the cause of defending Russia, we must all unify and co-ordinate our efforts, rights and responsibilities...
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