The Personal & Private World of Tzaims Luksus aka Prince Dmitri Ivanovitch Yusupov-Luksiev

Captain & Master 

Tzaims Luksus, FRSA

OF

 2.0 AMERICA

 Schooner

Key West, Florida 

2014

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Tzaims has been wearing Sailors uniforms since he was 2 years old in 1934.

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Tzaims' 1904 144 foot 

Barkentine 

"Regina Maris" 

Tzaims' Schooner 

"Unicorne"

Buckthorne Hall

Residence of 

Tzaims Luksus, FRSA

Front entrance with pair of antique

London Street lamps from 

1800s Charles Dickens era.

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Tzaims found the estate one early misty morning with a for sale sign nailed to a tree.  He was traveling through Vermont to New Hampshire on a 1963 Labor day weekend.  It struck his soul since he had a recurring dream when a child of this very property.  Dark gabled mansion, long circular drive, old trees and him burning leaves in the gravel drive on Halloween afternoon.  Same dream over and over.

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He immediately called the number and lease/purchased the mansion that same weekend and moved in on 1 October 1963, burning leaves on the gravel drive on Halloween.

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It turned out that his mother's great aunt's youngest son, her cousin, built it in 1901. 

Tzaims 

Country Cottage

Village of Old Bennington 

Vermont

as it was when he left to visit 

Burma in February 2020 for 28 days.

The 1842 George Stevens

14 rank double keyboard 

Tracker Pipe Organ

One of a kind priceless

14 feet high, 12 feet front X 10 feet side.

Built in

Cambridge

Massachusetts

In 1963 Tzaims heard that antique tracker church organs were being broken up with sledge hammers, removed and replaced by electronic organs, and were offered free to anyone willing to move it out of the church.

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  Tzaims wanted one built before 1850 suitable to play Bach and Handel and found this Stevens Tracker.  He got two trucks and took his fabric mill hands to move it and lift it in peices, all unscrewed and unpegged, through an attic window where he reessembled it himself one Labor day weekend, refinished and restored it as seen today.

Buckthorne Hall

Winter

The Serbian ( Olympic) Spruce 

was planted by Tzaims and his 

brother Gene (John)

to replace a specimen Elm.

Buckthorne Hall Garden

Winter

An early Autumn Snow fall.

Buckthorne Hall

South Lawn, Forest, Winter View to

Mt. Anthony

Mt Anthony

Spring

Forsythia in full bloom.

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after 28 days visa... and couldn't returne due to the Covid pandemic!

Buckthorne Hall

Entrance front

 Driveway

Buckthorne Hall

Entrance front, Flower beds

Buckthorne Hall

Stone steps and entrance to formal gardens

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Tzaims

27 years old

1959

THE MEDIEVAL TROUBADORE

Studied Classical Music,

Fine Art & Classical Dance

Playing the Elizabethan Lute and singing 

Early Medieval English & French Ballads

at his 

GOLDEN HORNE CAFFE

IN THE CASTLE

ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA

December 1958 - APRIL 1960 

Tzaims' Continental Caffe 

was in the 

Stone Catriage House

&

He lived in the 

Stone Studio

above it

see: Wikipedia for History.

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The world of Tzaims Luksus is quite different than you can imagine or know from any fashion media or local gossip. 

An American of 

Landed Gentry of Patria

1912

Viking Russian, Mongolian, 

&

British Matria

1603

Cape James (Cape Cod), 

Nantucket & Martha's Vineyard

1607

Founder and Builder of 

Fort James

Jamestown, Virginia

&

1630 

Massachusetts Bay Colony

& Founder of 

New Haven, Connecticut

Heritage of Early

Scottish, Welsh, English,

L'Occataine French 

& 

Savoyard.

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Buckthorne Hall

Garden Front

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Tzaims' English Rose Garden

Tzaims' White "Himalayan" Climbing Roses

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Essentially Tzaims life was the same as that of a Russian Czar, being related to Czar Nicholas II, living in exile in the United States.  

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Buckthorne Hall

Dining Room

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The son of 

Prince Ivan Yusupovitch 

Rurik-Romanov-Yusupov-Luksiev 

of Czarist Russia 

&

The American Landed gentry 

of the 

English, Scottish, Welsh, French, 

founding families of the 

Finch-White-Sanford-Collins-deVere- Baldwin-deRiver families of the

Massachusetts Bay Colony 1603, 

and 

Founders of New Haven Connecticut 1636, through the Wingfield-Cecil-Charteris-Wemyss-Douglass-Stuart-Gosnel families, 

builders of 

Fort James of Jamestown Virginia 1607, 

his pedigree is that of Czar Nicholas II and King George V of Great Britain 

and of 

Imperial Russia from c.850 

through the 

Viking Russe 

of the 

Grand Dukes of Novgorod, 

Kiev & Vladimir, 

Russia.

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Buckthorne Hall

Great Hall

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Tutored by his Princely father, Ivan Yusupovitch, 

a master of caligraphy, 

in his early years until 5 years old then by his father's examples he was educated under the strict guidelines to be a king, emperor, of Nobless Oblige.

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Tzaims' father didn't believe in private or public schools nor US universities. The exception being Oxford University with private tutors.  

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In the United States he had to allow his sons to attend public schools but tutored them up to their 6th year in Reading, wrting, arithmatic and logic based on Princely values and scholarship so they were advanced above all other students in their US schools..

Being educated as such didn't mean his sons would be kings or Czars or such since that wasn't the real purpose of being of princely mental stature but to be a leader with humanitarian and compassionate personal decorum.  

Of course by being born in the US and growing up there his sons would be forever alienated from ordinary and regular Americans.  Yet educated and safe from Americans or being controlled by them.

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Garden Front of Buckthorne Hall 

from formal gardens

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Though growing up modestly in the praries of Oak Lawn, Illinois, from 1936 to 1950, four miles South of Chicago, Illinois, he had constant access to Chicago's finest Chicago Art Institute, Field Museum of Natural History, Planetarium, Acquarium, the Rosenwald Museum of Science & Industry , and mixing with people of all economic and nationalist levels of society.

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Buckthorne Hall

Great Hall

Crystal Chandeliers 

on candle light dimmers.

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As a young adult, having traveled the world first as a Yeoman-Seaman in the US Navy, then on his own he became an internationally sophistocated gentleman scholar attending and reading at 

St Edmund Hall Oxford

St. Edmund Hall 

Oxford University 

where Tzaims read 

The Greats 

in 1960

& 

Medieval Studies 

in 1991

for his D.Phil, however, Tzaims was already elected by 

HRH Prince Philip, KG 

and the 

Royal Counsel of the Royal Society of Art 

as a 

Life Fellow in 1974 

and

his standing as a FRSA elevated him above an 

Oxford D.Phil degree.

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St Endmund Hall 

Oxford

Staircase to 

Tzaims' Student Lodgings

& 

Tutor's Lodging Staircase

St Edmund Hall 

Oxford

Library Entrance

1

Tzaims' College Life

at

The Quad

 St Edmund Hall

 Oxford University

The St Edmund Hall 

Old Dining Hall

St Edmund Hall 

Oxford Library 

formerly

St. Peters Chapel

St Edmund Hall 

Library

St Edmund Hall 

Oxford 

Entrance to Old Dining Hall

St Edmund Hall 

Oxford 

General Architectural Plan

The oldest Academic Hall of 

Oxford University 

Founded 1278 AD

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 Tzaims' extraordinary life at Oxford University, and having always been his own creative superior he chose, in order to make a living, to designing haute couture silk and wool woven fabrics.  Keeping his creative fine art activity non commercial and strictly personal

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Tzaims' Life Drawing 

oil on canvas 3 feet x 7 feet 

Compendium of Male Nudes 

Entitled 

POLYMACHAEROPLAGODIES

created at

 PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS 1980

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Tzaims' Abstract Painting 

of 

"MAN IN SPACE"

 from a group of

25 large oils on canvas

&

 60 oils on fine etching paper

for

Prix di Rome 

AMERICAN ACADEMY 

AT 

ROME

1981

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He was not part of America's Pop Culture of the 1960s but a scion of the upper class 400 Blue Book Society of NYC, mingling among the Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, Harkness, Paley, Guinness families and Pittsburg's Mellon.

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Deck scaffolding structure to prevent kitchen chimney from collapsing on house and kitchen dining garden.

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He had no association with the lower class Sex, Rock and Roll characters like Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol or Liza Minelli, Halston's Cocaine VIP room at Studio 54 groupies.

Pennsylvania Academy of the  Fine Arts

Tzaims entered as a student in 1956.

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 Harper"s Bazaar claims in their recent 15 September 2021 magazine issue gossip colume everything false about him. Just vicious made up ideas based on their own limited mentality adding their unauthorized psychotic opinions, digging up a few private family tragedies .  How could the debased fashion editors in NYC ever realize who and what Tzaims is?

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Their only purpose as fashion editors, and writers, is to describe the creative work achieved, and not to smear loose gossip into the internet.  No wonder reporters are jailed and banned by the Myanmar military government realizing that western media is corrupt and don't spread truth but create chaotic mis-information.  Something totally out of control with US media!  Chief NYC Editor of Harper's Bazaar, Samira Nast (Nasty), will pay dearly for the damages she created for Tzaims.  He knows how God will punisher her and her writer!  God Willing!

AMEN

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 His parties in his country mansion were not wild.  They were wine and cheese parties, with grapes and French Bagettes as one would experience at the receptions of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. 

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 Had you attended the high art academies like PAFA, or like Tzaims, the Royal Art Academy in London, art academies in Florence, Venice, Athens and the Ruskin School of Fine Art and Drawing at Oxford then you would know how sophistocated his open house parties in Old Bennington were.

Front of Buckthorne Hall

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The guests were mostly Bennington College students from the Art, Music and Dance Departments, Art, Music and Dance faculty and administrators, Students and faculty from Williams College, local bank presidents and the elite society of the Vanderbilts of NYC, and McCulloughs, Whitney-Dickies of the Bennington area as well as important individuals from Europe and New York, Museim directors of the Museum of Modern Art and Guggenhaim as well as major NYC Emerich art gallery owners and promenent art critics.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum School

Benjamin West Painting 

"Death on a Pale Horse"

where Tzaims first studied Fine and Mural art, Anatomy and life drawing.

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The likes of unartistic Warhol and his copy cat, obscene pop, sex, rock and roll Factory groupies never, ever, came any where near Tzaims world.

Buckthorne Hall

Tzaims Drawing Room

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Knowing this, might now disappoint you since many of you visualize satanic occult rituals and outlandish drugged out parties, well it never happened.  No children or girls disappeared ever.  

Tzaims with his Mother's Wingfield family visiting from England.

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Tzaims, also known as 

Prince Dmitri Ivanovitch Yusupov-Luksiev 

is a Russian Imperial Aristocrat.

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NOBLESS OBLIGE

HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENCE

AUM MANI PADME HUM

Tzaims'

Buckthorne Hall Estate 

Garden Gate

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Tzaims' Garden

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Why did Tzaims leave the mansion after living there for 60 years that his mother's family built in 1901?

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After 60 years living there with his younger brother Gene (John), the mansion in 2020 was deteriorating rapidly.  Local contractors and restorationists charged so much and were so negative they couldn't be trusted with such a valuable historic vintage property and when his brother died in 2013 Tzaims reached his 81st birthday.  

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Winters were brutal with out central heat and no running water and made life impossible.  Everyone he knew, as well as his entire family, had died leaving him alone among hateful new lower class though wealthy new corrupt neighbors, and irresponsible law enforcement had radically changed making the free and independent life he lived from 1932 an unpredictable life for a famous elderly man living alone and very life threatening with suspicious police that now could arrest anyone just on their personal suspicians with no evidence presented in court.  The US was no longer a safe place to live freely and honestly!.  

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After his brother's death his only income was a small amount of social securty in around $800.00 a month, hardly enough for food and to pay $12,000 annual property, that kept being raised, he had great credit card debt to pay them.

Yet he didn't plan leaving but continued to fight back surviving each time and winning in court since neighbors and police were arresting him but revealed as lieing against him.

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Never the less Tzaims had to change his life and perhaps moving to Southeast Asia was reasonable with Burma being his first choice for many reasons but principally because it was primarily Theravada Buddhist and he had experience there when 9 to 13 years old when his older 19 year old brother Raymond John was stationed in Rangoon serving in the US Army Air Corps during WWII.

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Buckthorne Hall

Dining Room 

with

 Tzaims'

Mt Everest Tibetan Buddhist Painting

c.1972

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He felt going to Myanmar he could reestablish his Fashion label since the Paris Haute Couture in 1968 had banned him for competing with Yves Saint Laurent.

Buckthorne Hall

Entrance Garden Gate

flying

 Templar's Banner

& 

National Flag of England

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There are no French Luxury goods boutiques in Myanmar.

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After 28 days and creating a Myanmar company, Tzaims intended to return to his estate in Old Bennington to sort out and organize the excess amount collected over his lifetime, but Covid locked him down in Rangoon/Yangon and further for 5 years with then a change in Myanmar government in 2021, preventing any traveling in or out of the country.  Receiving year long visas and then Business visas through his Myanmar company, Tzaims Luksus, LTD, and finding a young 23 year old Burmese man, Zay Yar Aung, he was able to pass on his legacy and the military government allowed him permanent residence.  

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He was/is loyal to the US, acting diplomatically and representing the best example of what a US Citizen could be, as he was trained in the US Navy from 1952 until 1960.  As a result he is generally admired and respected by the Burmese people who care for him and protect him, where as in the US he was disrespected and threaten

by the lower mentality of new rich American neighbors and harrassed by local police. 

Even though a nonorably discharged US Navy veteran and long time US Citizenship and with the US Government being as hostile as it is to the country of Myanmar, the Burmese people, and the very intelligent and protective military democratic government embraced him.

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Tzaims has kept his US Citizenship and Vermont permanent residence and never became an ex patriot!

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Tzaims renewed his US passport in 2024 VALID to 2033 when he reaches his 101st birthday.  He just might have to renew it again in 2033 until 2043, until his 111th birthday, considering his physical and mental health is thus far excellent in his long life.

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Buckthorne Hall

 Formal Garden Restored by Tzaims in 1963

 Designed by 

Martha Brooks Brown

First woman landscape architect

in 1905 

who designed previoisly

the famous 

White House Rose Garden 

IN

 Washington,DC

that Milania Trump destroyed

& 

Bratt Family gardens in Brooklyn, NY

in 

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Then in their September 2021 issue Harper's Bazaar published

"The Mystery of 60s Designer 

Tzaims  Luksus & Bennington College," 

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Giving his address to the Internet, claiming he wasn't home and his mansion looked abandoned by their writer Megan Mayhew Bergman from Bennington College who was curious and trespassed looking in the windows and claiming Tzaims was Blogging from a remote village in Burma and attacking his private and personal life with the gossip she picked up locally even though told by Tzaim her not to publish any stories since there was no point in bringing him into the fashion limelight again!  Both she and editors of Harper's printed it anyway but not tellinag him.  It was a shocking situation for him worldwide!  They are responsible for cbringing theives, looters, vandals and video crews claiming his mansion was abandoned Harper's Bazaar is responsible for criminal actions against Tzaims Luksus!

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Buckthorne Hall

 Great Hall

 Reception Buffet table

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This led to Internet Youtube adventurers trespassing and video taping abandoned mansions with four videos appeareing now on the internet.

Buckthorne Hall

 Datura In Flower

Grown by

 Tzaims 

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Each video revealed vandalisn, breakage, theft of valuable personal heirlooms and collections as well as great weather damage which left him speechless as to know what to do.  

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What he planned saving and restoring of  his mansion and collections no longer was possible or viable.  His neighbors who before he left, and for decades earlier, socially black listed him, though were low class new wealth, played up detrimental gossip about him in an effort to destroy his public image.  Why?  Envy, jealosy, inferiority?.. to Tzaims Princely and honest demeanor and noble ethics, or that he was a member of two Royal Families of Great Britain and Imperial Russia and Royally elected as a FRSA. 

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 Something they could never measure up to in the slightest degree in their lifetimes even with all the money in the world!

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Specimen Hybred Iris 

named

Starship Enterprise

grown by Tzaims

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Together with the looting and robberies he decided to let everything he left remain as it was or close to as it was when he left for Burma where it is warm year round and at 93 now this is more important than being in unfriendly Vermont.

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Taxes are paid and continually will be paid and therefore what he left is preserved as a Vermont Historic Heritage Estate dating from 1901 with William BULL Architect and Martha Brooks Brown (Hutchenson) Garden and landscape Designer.

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Historic Heritage properties like Buckthorne Hall plus his famous interior design improvements, decor and collection surpass Billions of USD value and though he endeavored to create a house museum he was blocked by the Village Trustee millionaires who wanted only to drive Tzaims out, which in fact they failed, since he decided to leave before they could, and not only do they wish to demolish the historic mansion he strived to preserve but develope the land into small parcels to build phoney colonial type houses for the lower and middle class like them.

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In the meantime nature and weather with fungae is permeating the mansion making it deadly for looters to enter even masked.

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Buckthorne Hall

Stone Garden steps Entrance

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What will be the outcome?

C'EST LA VIE

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Tzaims added 14 delecate Gold Plated French Empire, European, Crystal Chandeliers in different sizes to represent his Princely Father's St. Petersburg Palaces in Czarskoia Selo and the Yusupov-Luksiev Palace on the Moika River where his father was born in 1897.

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When Tzaims left breifly for Burma his mansion contained the entire heritage heirlooms of both his English-American mothers family, his Father's Imperial Russian family heirlooms plus his 88 year collectioms and art works.

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This lifelong Historic family treasure and Vermont Heritage property is being reduced to nothing due to an irresponsible Vermont Historic Preservatiom organization, the Bennington Town government and the Village of Old Bennington Trustees.

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If these governing and taxation people cannot be trusted with security after paying over 60 years in exhorbitant property taxes, then how by continuing to pay property taxes will it save and preserve a loyal US veteran's family home and wealth?

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Buckthorne Hall

1901

The Historic 

Howard Hart Shields-Tzaims Luksus Mansion

The first house to gentrify the 

Village of Old Bennington 

as it is today.

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What exactly are these taxes paying for since they provide absolutly nothing but terrorizing a persons life?

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SEMPER FIDELIS

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With Love from Tzaims.

He cannot offer his country anything more!

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Tzaims 

 a botanist, horticulturist, artist, designer environmentalist, philosopher, and philanthropist

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Photo snaps taken from stored lap top computer images.

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Tzaims 

HAPPILY at home 

in Rangoon 

93 years young

in May 2025

MINGALABA

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Tzaims' 

UNICORNE CLUB 

Cafe Bistro 

Hauture Couture 

& 

Bespoke Men's Boutique 

RANGOON

Founded 

March 2020

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Life begins at 90

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By Appointment 

&

 VIP Reservation

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TZAIMS LUKSUS, LTD

No. 35 B

BOGALAY ZAY STREET

YANGON

MYANMAR

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Zay Yar Aung

President

&

Executive Director

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