Other articles related to "grand":
... In the autumn of 1907, Anastasia's aunt Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia was escorted to the nursery by the Tsar to meet Rasputin ... Tyutcheva told Nicholas's sister, Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia, that Rasputin visited the girls, talked with them while they were getting ready for bed, and hugged and patted them ... that "everything Rasputin does is holy." Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna was told that Vishnyakova's claim had been immediately investigated, but instead "they caught the young ...
... Felix Dassel, who was treated at the hospital and knew Anastasia, recalled that the grand duchess had a "laugh like a squirrel," and walked rapidly "as though she tripped along." At Tobolsk, she and her ... carrying the sick boy in his arms, behind him came the Grand Duchesses loaded with valises and small personal belongings ... According to the blouse the hand must have belonged either to the Grand Duchess Marie or Anastasia ...
... Ancestors of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia FFFF ... Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine FFM ... Princess Louise Charlotte of Denmark Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia MFFF ...
... most notable event during the season between the two occurred during the Portuguese Grand Prix, where Senna tried to block Prost from taking the lead by forcing the Frenchman to run close to the ... The rivalry intensified after the 1989 San Marino Grand Prix, where the two drivers had an agreement that neither would get in each other's way to the first corner (cf. 1982 San Marino Grand Prix) ...
... sufficient proof to claim the identity of the grand duchess ... DNA tests proving she could not have been the Grand Duchess had "won the day." In another incident, eight witnesses reported the recapture of a young woman after an apparent ... witnesses identified the girl as Anastasia when they were shown photographs of the grand duchess by White Russian Army investigators ...
Famous quotes containing the word grand:
“One of my playmates, who was apprenticed to a printer, and was somewhat of a wag, asked his master one afternoon if he might go a-fishing, and his master consented. He was gone three months. When he came back, he said that he had been to the Grand Banks, and went to setting type again as if only an afternoon had intervened.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.”
—Anne Cassidy (20th century)
“What do you do in the Grand Hotel? Eat, sleep, loaf around, flirt a little, dance a little. A hundred doors leading to one hall. No one knows anything about the person next to them. And when you leave, someone occupies your room, lies in your bed. That’s the end.”
—William A. Drake (1900–1965)