Did the Grand Duchess Anastasia really live in Newport? Explore the mystery
From 1971 until her death in 1997, an Austro-Hungarian by way of Chicago and New York made Newport her home. Her name was ...
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Romanov or royal pretender? Newport resident spent her life claiming to be Tsar's daughter
Her name was Eugenia Drabrek Smetisko, commonly known as Eugenia Smith, but if you had asked her, she would have preferred to be identified as Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.
Smithsonian Magazine23d
Ivan the Terrible, the Czar and Grand Prince of Russia, Wouldn’t Earn His Violent Nickname Until Years After His Reign
Wikimedia Commons Ivan IV Vasilyevich was just a teenager when he was crowned czar and grand prince of all Russia on January 16, 1547. Today, Ivan is better known as Ivan the Terrible, though the ...
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Belinda Bencic conquers Jelena Ostapenko's 'Russian roulette' in victorious Grand Slam return
“Sometimes it feels like a little bit of Russian roulette (smiling ... The display came when Bencic served for their match in her first Grand Slam appearance since the 2023 US Open.
Al Jazeera English19d
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events – day 1,061
Russia said it opened criminal investigations into the alleged “cannibalistic massacre” of at least seven civilians in the western Russian village of Russkoe Porechnoye, which Ukraine has ...
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Inside Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg's final New Year's reception as he hands over power to his son Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume
Grand Duke Henri was joined by his wife, Grand Duchess Maria Teresa, and Hereditary Grand Duke ... surprise wedding The ‘Playboy Prince’ of Greece split from Princess Tatiana last spring, and while he ...
Al Jazeera English26d
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,054
Russia’s Ministry of Defence said on Monday it had downed nine Ukrainian drones that tried to attack part of the infrastructure of the TurkStream gas pipeline, through which Russian gas flows ...
Business Insider4d
Ukrainian commander who invaded Russia said his troops had no idea that's where they were going until the last minute
An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Ukrainian forces who took part in last year's shock invasion of Russia had no idea they were about to launch a cross-border assault until the ...
Business Insider16d
Skeptical of Russia's data, some Western officials judge its economy by looking at Moscow from space
The declining health of Russia's economy is as clear as day — or night, a finance minister said Wednesday. Elisabeth Svantesson, the finance minister of Sweden, said she and her officials were ...
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Princess Tatiana of Greece Reveals Move and Thanks Her Mom for Support Days Before Ex-Husband Prince Nikolaos Is Set to Remarry
Nikolaos will wed Chrysi Vardinogianni later this week, less than one year after announcing his divorce from Tatiana Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working ...
The Economist27d
Russia is being set aflame by hundreds of arson attacks
It is not the first time Russia has experienced arson attacks since beginning its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. In the first year of the war, military recruitment offices and ...