When Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov took it over in 1957 from Georgi Zaroubin, he made a determined effort to change this idea.

When Bobby came across Mikhail Rasputin he used his mutant abilities on him.

When Lyudmila Shestakova, the sister of Mikhail Glinka, learned of Mussorgsky's plans, she presented him with a volume of Pushkin's dramatic works, interleaved with blank pages and bound, and using this Mussorgsky began work in October 1868 preparing his own libretto.

When word reached Mikhail Glinka of his father's death in 1834, he left Berlin and returned to Novospasskoye.

When Mikhail Gorbachev announced his reform program, Zhivkov made a show of copying it, believing that Gorbachev wasn't really serious about glasnost or perestroika.

When the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev initiated his policy of glasnost, Gamsakhurdia played a key role in organizing mass pro-independence rallies held in Georgia between 1987 – 1990, in which he was joined by Merab Kostava on the latter's release in 1987.

When Chernenko died Shevardnadze's had become a strong supporter Mikhail Gorbachev's leadership candidacy.

When he was released, Grigory ( Rosenblum's assumed father ) told his son that his mother was dead, and that his true, biological father was her Jewish doctor, Mikhail A. Rosenblum.

When Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary in 1985, Ligachev was promoted to become a Secretary of higher status, and was generally viewed as one of Gorbachev ’ s primary allies: he had helped organize a pro-Gorbachev faction in hope of having Gorbachev succeed Andropov in 1984, although this attempt failed ( instead, Konstantin Chernenko was chosen as a stop-gap candidate ).

When approached by Stavka for his opinion on the need for the abdication he replied, "... For the moment the only thing that matters is to stabilise our position to allow the continuation of the war with the external enemy ... to abdicate in favour of Grand Duke Mikhail and a council of regents ...

When Nikolai Tikhonov's Second Government was dissolved, Mikhail Gorbachev appointed him Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers in Nikolai Ryzhkov's First Government.

When Metropolitan Maksim died in 1305, Mikhail nominated another candidate, but Petr was consecrated by the Patriarch of Constantinople.

When Mikhail was a child, he suffered from a paralyzing illness.

When his uncle Gleb Svyatoslavich died between 1215 and 1220, and Mstislav II Svyatoslavich moved to Chernihiv, Mikhail, because of his status as the second in seniority, probably occupied Novgorod-Seversk.

When Daniil Romanovich learnt that his sister ( Mikhail ’ s wife ) was being held captive, he asked Yaroslav Vsevolodovich to send her to him.

When they arrived at Saray, Batu Khan sent messengers to Mikhail ’ s camp instructing him to worship according to the laws of the Mongols by bowing to the fires and idols.

When Mikhail returned, Apocalypse gave him the added responsibility of being in charge of his Eurasian lands.

When asked about Gorbachev, Yanayev replied " Let me say that Mikhail Gorbachev is now on vacation.

When the Lokomotiv Voluntary Sports Society was created in 1936, its football team featured the best players of Kazanka, and a number of strong Soviet footballers of that time such as Valentin Granatkin, Nikolay llyin, Alexey Sokolov, Pyotr Terenkov, Mikhail Zhukov, llya Gvozdkov, Ivan Andreev.

When two Duma delegates, Grigori Borisovich Iollos ( Poltava province ) and Mikhail Herzenstein ( b. 1859, d. 1906 in Terijoki ), both from the Constitutional Democratic Party, were assassinated by the Black Hundreds terrorists, the organ of Black Hundreds Russkoe Znamya declared openly that " Real Russians assassinated Herzenstein and Iollos with knowledge of officials, and expresses regret that only two Jews perished in crusade against revolutionaries.

When prince Potemkin fell ill and entrusted his command of the army to Mikhail Kakhovsky, Kamensky refused to subordinate himself, referring to his seniority.

When Mikhail Gorbachev first visited the United States in Reagan's first term, Fitzwater gave joint press briefings with his Soviet counterpart.

When Boris leaves to pursue a career in the staff of General Mikhail Kutuzov, their friendship evaporates, and at her first ball, Pierre introduces her to Prince Andrei Bolkonsky.

When Mikhail ( Andrew Divoff ) arrives, Jin chases after him and catches him.

When Chernenko died in March 1985, Gorbachev assumed power unopposed.

When the Soviet Union allowed non-communist governments to take power in Eastern Europe, Gorbachev suggested they could look to Finland as an example to follow.

When Gorbachev had Chernenko's safe opened, it was found to contain a small folder of personal papers and several large bundles of money ; large amounts of money was also found in his desk.

When Gorbachev met with Ronald Reagan during his visit the United States, Reagan called, bizarrely, for the dissolution of the Afghan army.

When Honecker was toppled in October 1989, Gorbachev hoped that Modrow would become the new leader of the SED.

When Gorbachev was facing opposition in the Politburo shortly after Andropov's death, Ustinov told Gorbachev to " stand firm " and to " take heart ".

When Maathai responded that she could not attend as she did not believe the government would allow her to leave the country and she was in hiding, Gorbachev pressured the government of Kenya to allow her to travel freely.

" When a year later the world press criticized Gorbachev for violent massacres of civilians in Lithuania and Latvia, Azerbaijani public was embittered for the silence of the world media on Gorbachev's orders a year earlier, during Black January.

When his uncle Tughril died he was succeeded by Suleiman, Alp Arslan's brother.

When Valdemar died in 1182, his son succeeded him as Canute VI, and Absalon served as Canute VI's counsellor.

When her husband Otto I died in 973 he was succeeded by their son Otto II, and Adelaide for some years exercised a powerful influence at court.

When Michael VIII captured the city, its population was 35, 000 people, but, by the end of his reign, he had succeeded in increasing the population to about 70, 000 people.

When Stalin died on 5 March 1953, Georgy Malenkov, a Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers succeeded him as Chairman and as the de facto leading figure of the Presidium ( the renamed Politburo ).

When Casimir, the last Piast king of Poland, died in 1370, his nephew King Louis I of Hungary succeeded him to become king of Poland in personal union with Hungary.

When Martin Gardner retired from writing his " Mathematical Games " column for Scientific American magazine, Hofstadter succeeded him in 1981 – 1983 with a column entitled Metamagical Themas ( an anagram of " Mathematical Games ").

When Jellicoe was promoted to First Sea Lord in 1916, Beatty succeeded him as commander-in-chief of the Grand Fleet and received promotion to the acting rank of Admiral at the age of 45 on 27 November.

When Emperor Kenzo died without heirs, Prince Oyoke succeeded him as Emperor Ninken.

When the King Frederick Augustus I died ( 1827 ) and Anton succeeded him as King, Frederick Augustus became second in line to the throne, preceded only by his father Maximilian.

When the king himself died in 1509, the position of the Tudors was secure at last, and his son succeeded him unopposed.

When Malcolm died in 1093, his brother Domnall III ( Donald III ) succeeded him.

When Charles died in 1685 and his brother, a Roman Catholic, succeeded him as James VII of Scotland ( and II of England ), matters came to a head.

When King Conrad III died without adult heir in 1152, Frederick also succeeded him, taking both German royal and Imperial titles.

When his father drowned in battle, Hannibal's brother-in-law Hasdrubal succeeded to his command of the army with Hannibal serving as an officer under him.

When party leader Sun Yat-Sen died in May 1925, he was succeeded by a rightist, Chiang Kai-shek ( 1887 – 1977 ), who was opposed to Mao's involvement.

When Menzies was forced to resign as Prime Minister, the UAP was so bereft of leadership that Fadden briefly succeeded him ( despite the Country Party being the junior partner in the governing coalition ).

When Orhan succeeded his father, he proposed to his brother, Alaeddin, that they should share the emerging empire.

When George I succeeded to the British throne in 1714, his German ministers advised him to leave the office of Lord High Treasurer vacant because those who had held it in recent years had grown overly powerful, in effect, replacing the Sovereign as head of the government.

When Paris succeeded in getting her to open up, she admitted that she's afraid her husband will find living with two Klingons too difficult and will leave her the way her father did.

When Nerva died on 27 January 98, the highly respected Trajan succeeded without incident.

When Ceolwulf's rule came to an end he was succeeded as ruler of " English Mercia " not by another king but by a mere ealdorman named Aethelred, who acknowledged Alfred's overlordship and married his daughter Ethelfleda.

When Æthelflæd died in 918, Ælfwynn, her daughter by Æthelred, succeeded as ' Second Lady of the Mercians ', but within six months Edward had deprived her of all authority in Mercia and taken her into Wessex.

" When his father died in 1347, Louis succeeded him as Duke of Bavaria ( as Louis VI ) and Count of Holland and Hainaut together with his five brothers.

When Otto II died suddenly in 983 and was succeeded by the three-year old Otto III, Mieszko I again supported Henry II in his bid for the German throne.