27 MAY 1995, page 15

A Lot Of Political Creepy-crawlies

Anthony Daniels lifts up a few stones in Russia, and does not much like what he sees Moscow `RUSSIAN DESPOTISM,' wrote the Mar- quis de Custine in 1843, `. . . wages war on......

Will Of The Week.

Sir Alfred Lane BEIT, 2nd Bart., of Russborough, Blessington, Co. Wick- low, the art collector, who died on May 12th 1994, left estate in England and Wales valued at £403,315......