To this:
Of such are the fortunes of war and revolution!
To this:
Of such are the fortunes of war and revolution!
From the penthouse to the outhouse, literally.
Could have been worse. She could have been shot in the basement, her body dismembered, and dumped in a pit.
After all,Obama's brother calls this place home,located in one of the more upscale neighborhoods of Nairobi.
Could have been worse.
Uh, I think that should be 54 years ago.
If I owned the pad in the upper picture I would worry my head where I would place my computer to browse FR while munching on bowls of caviar.
Something that our future politicians will experience in the future. Right now let them enjoy their perks, chauffers, food, drinks and their mansions.
At reading the headline, I really thought “semi” was going to be an old Freightliner or something.
Never heard of a “semi” referring to a apartment.
Thanks for the edumacation.
A trillion bucks! That amount of money makes Warren Buffet and Bill Gates look poor.
They lived in Denmark in obscurity until Stalin accused her of corroboration with the Germans. For safety, the family resettled on a farm in Campbellsville and finally Cooksville, Ont. Her cousin, Queen Elizabeth II, visited in 1959, and invited Olga to lunch on her yacht Britannia when it docked in Toronto.
She was lucky to survive Lenin and Stalin's army of killers.
I’m no fan of the czars, but at their worst they kept something like a few thousand political prisoners, and the prisons they kept them in were these quaint sort of low security affairs where the prisoners could stroll around the courtyard and spend their days writing political missives and their families could come visit them and bring them meals and that sort of thing. Then the left took over and brought an unimaginable level of horror with their gulag system and their systematic torture and starvation and the unpersoning of human beings on a mass scale. Yet somehow the left is able to see itself as the bringer of a higher morality to the world. It’s just incredible.
Q: What do revolutions and tornados have in common?
A: Some Rooskis and rednecks are losing ... zzzzzzz.
wow thanks for this bit of history
Heartbreaking. Some of the displaced and impoverished old Russian nobility or near-nobility lived in San Francisco when I was there in the 70’s. They added a lot to the community, as I understand it started the San Francisco ballet school. And ran little restaurants out on Geary near the Russian cathedral. Lovely and very cheap food cooked by little old ladies with their heads held high and a certain starch in their spines. Unbowed…One of them had a bakery that made the best Christmas log cakes loaded with rum, which she pronounced RRRRoooom.
I understand there was a price the Russian peasants had to pay for such beauty to be created, perhaps too high a price, but it shows the Romanovs could create beauty. What did the Bolsheviks and even our home grown “progressives” ever create that is anywhere comparable? Soviet bloc housing? The Mother Cabrini Projects? Collectivism breeds ugliness as it is death to the human spirit.
Supposedly Olga was happy there, very happy. She had never had a happy life as a Romanov, she was essentially her mother’s ‘companion’ and ended up being happily anonymous.
OMG....When I saw those palaces that are BLOCKS LONG and EVERYTHING is Gold, I KNEW why they had a Revolution!!
Didn’t a crown prince of Austria live out his days in a shack in Missouri?
That’s an old storefront converted to an apartment. Not sure where the “semi” thing comes from, there’s no side alley. It’s not detached at all, and probably only an alley in the rear just big enough for a delivery truck that is shared with opposite side. If it was built as residential there would be a small walled yard and possibly a single garage facing what was called a coal alley.