RUSSIAN EXERCISES FLEX MILITARY MUSCLE The Boston Globe (2/21/2004)
...the country's military might. Russia's designation of an unspecified...standoff between the Soviet Union or Russia, and the United States," said...on paraphrasing an old maxim by Czar Alexander III: "Russia's only allies are ...

Muslims gathering in Chicago for Islamic convention Chicago Sun-Times (9/3/1999)
...stolen without a peal: Three bells donated in 1888 by Czar Alexander III of Russia have been stolen from San Francisco's Holy Trinity...has a grand chandelier donated by the last Russian czar, Nicholas II. The bells are considered ...

PALACE PART MUSEUM.(TRAVEL) Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) (6/5/1994)
...children including King George I of Greece; Alexandra, who married Edward VII of England, and Dagmar, wife of Czar Alexander III of Russia sent elaborate gifts to their parents from their distant abodes. Many of these presents, including Faberge...

EASTER FACTS.(Features) Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) (3/22/2005)
...valuable Easter eggs were hand-made in the1880s by goldsmith Peter Carl Faberge and cost thousands of pounds. Czar Alexander III of Russia commissioned the elaborate eggs as gifts for his wife, Czarina Maria Feodorovna.

Russia's Nigeria Connection.(Brief Article) Chief Executive (U.S.) (8/1/2001)
For businesses invested in Russia, recent developments have appeared...commentators even liken Putin to Russia's autocratic Czar Alexander III, who consolidated control over...Like Germany of that time, Russia remains an ...

The last Czar Nicholas II: the heir of Russia's once powerful Romanov dynasty fell victim to bad decisions, bad luck, and the tide of history.(World History) Junior Scholastic (3/7/2005)
...the last Romanov Czar, Nicholas II, and...were prisoners of Russia's new government...powerful autocrat Alexander III. But Nicholas was...became Czar, after Alexander died unexpectedly...came to the throne, ...

Russia's Vasili Romanov, 81, a nephew of Czar Nicholas Chicago Sun-Times (6/28/1989)
...the last prince born in czarist Russia before the Bolshevik revolution...Xenia. His father was Grand Duke Alexander, cousin of Czar Nicholas II and founder of the...Force. His grandparents were Czar Alexander III and Empress ...

Eggs-tra Fab-ulous New Orleans is getting all dressed up for the Faberge exhibit The Boston Globe (12/8/1996)
...treasures for the last of the czars, begins a nine-week engagement...Alexis Romanov Alexandrovitch of Russia, who had pursued a burlesque...house designed for the last two czars of Russia, Alexander III and his son, Nicholas ...

NUTCRACKERS, NOTCRACKERS AND JOY TO THE WORLD. Dance Magazine (12/1/2000)
...time there were no Nutcrackers! Then the great Czar of snowy Russia called. "Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, you have...debut at the Imperial Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. Czar Alexander III complimented Tchaikovsky on his ...