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The importance of St. Nicholas Johnson.
Nicholas Johnson was a key friend and colleague in the life of Grand Duke Michael who from being teenage pals, sharing college and army training, to his gruesome assassination alongside Michael during the summer of 1918 in Perm (Siberia).
Nicholas Johnson was a key friend and colleague in the life of Grand Duke Michael who from being teenage pals, sharing college and army training, to his gruesome assassination alongside Michael during the summer of 1918 in Perm (Siberia).
Nicholas was born in Russia in 1878, the brother of two elder sisters, Elisabeth, and Anna. He was the son of Captain Nicholas A. Johnson, an English guard at the Imperial Court, & Louise (von) Kreisler Johnson, a German music and singing teacher at Court.
A shared love of music with the Anglophile Grand Duke Michael, the younger brother of Tsar Nicholas, who like Nicholas was also a graduate of the Mikhailovsky Artillery School, led to deep friendship where he was nicknamed `Johnny`. Nicholas chose to keep his British nationality.
The Life of Reilly - Sidney Reilly 1874 – 1925
The real James Bond superspy modeled from Ian Fleming.
Georgi Rosenblum was born in Poland or Odessa from conflicting accounts, on 24th March 1874. His parents were Jewish, and his father a wealthy landowner, his mother a pianist.
The real James Bond superspy modeled from Ian Fleming.
Georgi Rosenblum was born in Poland or Odessa from conflicting accounts, on 24th March 1874. His parents were Jewish, and his father a wealthy landowner, his mother a pianist.
Details of his education are uncertain. Nevertheless, He had an exceptional command of languages, including English, Russian, Polish, German, and French."
Rosenblum fled Russia, appearing in Brazil in his late teens for reasons that remain obscure.
Rosenblum fled Russia, appearing in Brazil in his late teens for reasons that remain obscure.
No less obscure are the next two decades of his life where he claimed to having been a cook, a dockworker, a railway engineer in India & a brothel doorman.
Reilly used to tell people whilst working as a cook for a party of English explorers, the party were attacked by cannibals
Reilly used to tell people whilst working as a cook for a party of English explorers, the party were attacked by cannibals
Once again, this Tuesday evening on Freeview @TalkingPicsTV 9.00.p.m. we will be entertained by the real James Bond Sam Neill as he creates Sidney Reilly ACE OF SPIES. The sophisticated charming and ruthless Sam Neil shows his acting skills like no other in the James Bond theme.
A nefarious man of exceptional ability…. and that was how well Sam Neill portrayed the master spy.
Looking back at the last episode 10 AFTER MOSCOW
1918: Reilly arrived back in London after a dangerous journey across Scandinavia where he used disguises & wits.
@TwoPaddocks
Looking back at the last episode 10 AFTER MOSCOW
1918: Reilly arrived back in London after a dangerous journey across Scandinavia where he used disguises & wits.
@TwoPaddocks
He arranged an uncertain loan of $250,000,000, a massive sum even by today’s standards, to the Bolsheviks fledgling government in whom their ideologies were in direct conflict with the UK. That question why was never. answered.
