Word: dimitri
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suit for damages against Prince Felix Youssoupov and the Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich [both resident in Paris] is not primarily a struggle for money. It is an effort to clear my slandered father's name...
...Felix is coming to get me. You must tell nobody about it. I am to go to his house incognito to a reception that he and the Grand Duke Dimitri have organized...
...Paris, George Gershwin, flanked by Dimitri Tomkin and Vladmir Golschmann, took his bows. A Paris audience had just listened to his "Concerto in F," and they were wildly applauding its composer, soloist, and conductor. Some of the members of the audience were greatly disturbed by the bizarre joy and regret which the young Hebrew composer had put into his most ambitious work...
...Princess Anna Ilynski, and the Grand Duke Dimitri of Russia, cousin of the late Tsar Nicholas; a son, in London. From his father the child inherits the unlikely chance of someday becoming Tsar of Russia; from his mother, who was Miss Audrey Emery of Manhattan, the millions of his late grandfather, Leather King John Emery...
...madness and vainglorious pursuit of power, which wrapped the throne in an impenetrable web and isolated the monarch from his people"; how in greasy boots he walked over the imperial parquets; how he gained almost complete mastery over the Tsar and Tsarina; how Prince Yussupov and the Grand Duke Dimitri, murdered him in an attempt to deliver the royal couple from his clutches and threw his body into the Neva from a bridge in Petrograd. Most of this was known before (TIME, Dec. 6, 1926), but it is the first time that Prince Yussupov has told...