| During the final Romanov decades scientific and exploratory expeditions were mounted more and more frequently. |
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| Warehouses and storerooms were still filled with confiscated Russian-made objects from Romanov palaces. |
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| I am the grand duchess Alexandra Romanov, though I'm sure you already knew that. |
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| So it's not yet full-scale Romanov worship, complete with icons in front of these new tombs. |
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| Romanov is by all accounts a hard nut, not inclined to throw good money after bad. |
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| Romanov pulled out a file folder from her jacket slowly, ensuring that the bodyguards saw what she held, and handed it to Mr. Devlin. |
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| Vladimir Romanov plans to help Hearts sign players ahead of his takeover bid. |
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| Vladimir Romanov was in the stands yesterday and will surely complete his takeover of the club in the week ahead. |
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| If Romanov is serious, he should let Robertson identify the players he wants to keep at the club and sign them up on new contracts. |
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| The tradition continued for 30 years in the Romanov imperial family. |
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| Profit may be possible with continued success, particularly in Europe, but what Romanov proposes demands a reverse of the prudence that has taken Hearts this far. |
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| Under Peter the Great, the Romanov tsar who ruled from 1682 to 1725, Russia began a period of imperial expansion that continued into the Soviet period. |
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| Her brother Nikita's children took the surname Romanov in honour of their grandfather, father of a tsarina. |
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| There will be no return for the Scottish Cup winning captain of earlier that year while Romanov is in charge. |
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| Yekaterinburg, after all, was the city in which Russia's old regime, in the form of the Romanov royal family, met its grisly end. |
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| Or how about offering a completely powerless European tsardom to some otherwise redundant minor member of the Romanov family? |
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| The enormous influence that he came to hold in the Romanov court rendered him a very inconvenient person. |
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| Being nearly of the same age as Moscow, Kostroma plaid a very important role in life of our state as the birthplace of Romanov dynasty. |
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| You will enjoy spinning the lavishly decorated reels on your journey to discover the fantastic Romanov Dynasty's riches. |
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| Marie refused to acknowledge her as a granddaughter, and there was the little matter of the missing Romanov assets that this possible new claimant could complicate. |
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| Nicholas II, the last Romanov, built the graceful Livadia Palace on top of a hill there. |
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| The Romanov tsars imposed rigid serfdom just as that woeful institution was fading almost everywhere else. |
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| The Romanov Dynasty acceded to the throne in 1613 by the decision of Zemsky Sobor, and the country started its gradual recovery from the crisis. |
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| The portrait has the great museum and memorial value associated with the history of the last of the Romanov and will be exhibited in the halls of Alexander Palace. |
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| Hearts chairman Vladimir Romanov has been strutting his stuff alongside Sandra Kniazeviciute in a promo clip for Dance With a Star. |
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| The government's power began to grow in 1613 with the ascension of Mikhail Romanov to the throne after the Time of Troubles. |
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| The Code of 1649, under Alexis Romanov, Mikhail's son, divided the Russian population into distinct and fixed hereditary categories. |
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| Dunning's thesis is that modern Russia begins in 1613 with the founding of the Romanov dynasty. |
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| In 1613, the Zemsky sobor elected Michael Romanov tsar, establishing the Romanov dynasty. |
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| Stalin lay low. Mr Montefiore argues persuasively that Stalin was already identifiable as a monstrous personality before the fall of the Romanov monarchy. |
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| Former Hearts owner Vladimir Romanov claims he will be assassinated in a gangland hit if he goes home to Lithuania. |
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| However, legal status of the Russian flag was set neither under Mikhail Romanov nor under Peter I, known for his love to develop new variations of the standards, nor under their successors. |
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| Hearts declined to comment on the arrival of Romanov but fans' chief Stevie Kilgour is keen he kills two birds with one stone. |
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| Romanov posit that the modernday tuliptree descends from a plant named Archaeanthus and not the magnolia, as commonly thought. |
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| Old-fashioned brass sconces make it feel like a Romanov railroad car. |
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| But he hadn't banked on an owner loopier than a night on the tequila with Vladimir Romanov, Charles Green and Giovanni de Stefano. |
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| Rix's record fell short of the controlling Romanov family's expectations, and he fell despite coming into the job as recently as November, when he replaced George Burley. |
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| All summer, we have been bombarded with comment and analysis about why Vladimir Romanov has turned this supposedly once great club into a laughing stock. |
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| Menu selections include Salmon Coulibiac Romanov with Creamy Caviar Champagne Sauce and Colorado Rack of Lamb served with Whole Grain Mustard Rosemary Sauce. |
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| Chairman Roman Romanov, the son of owner Vladimir, has made it clear that he has no intention of paying Burley a penny to cover the 20 months he had remaining on his contract. |
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| Two weeks after his coronation, Ivan married his first wife Anastasia Romanovna, a member of the Romanov family, who became the first Russian tsaritsa. |
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