Zaharoff in a sentence

After Maxim's retirement, Zaharoff was appointed to Vickers' board of directors.

After the death of Lady Zaharoff he began a liquidation of his business assets, and undertook writing his memoirs.

From then until 1911, while Maxim's business enthusiasm waned, Zaharoff's enthusiasm grew, and he expanded his portfolio of Vickers shares.

H. Bouvier & Co., Bonn, 1949, page 132 Zaharoff convinced Venizelos to attack but, after some impressive initial success, the Greek Army was eventually driven back.

In 1890, the Maxim-Nordenfelt association broke up, and Zaharoff chose to go with Maxim.

In-story, Mathilda's father Michel Toulonchamp succeeded Zaharoff himself as the leader of his arms and financing empire.

In the elections that followed, Constantine’s loyalists managed to force Venizelos to flee, but Zaharoff stayed around to persuade the same King that he had to attack Turkey again.

It is reported that, on the occasion of one visit with Briand, Zaharoff surreptitiously left an envelope on Aristide Briand’s desk; the envelope contained a million francs for war widows.

It was thus that, with a promise of generous payment terms, Zaharoff sold the first model to the Greeks.

Lady Zaharoff in her own right was reputed to be one of the richest women in Spain.

Legal difficulties Zaharoff was summoned to court in London over irregular commercial activities involving the export of goods from Istanbul to London.

Nordenfelt and Zaharoff had won.

One of the richest men in the world during his lifetime, Zaharoff was variously described including “merchant of death” and “mystery man of Europe”.

One of Zaharoff’s tasks during the Great War was to ensure that Greece joined the war on the Allied side, helping to reinforce the eastern front.

On payment of the reward to the policemen who returned the manuscripts to Zaharoff, apparently he consigned them to the fireplace at his home.

Personal life Zaharoff was a friend of both the actress Sarah Bernhardt and her Greek husband Jacques Damala (who was once described as the handsomest man in Europe).

Some eighteen months after their marriage, Lady Zaharoff died of an infection.

The baby (who was baptised Teresa) was given to the care of Zaharoff, who found a family to raise her in eastern Thrace (at Adrianopole ).

The Russian-sounding surname Zaharoff was adopted by his family when they lived in Russia as exiles following the anti-Greek "Easter pogroms" of 1821.

This involved substantial settlements in both cash and shares for Maxim and Zaharoff.