Word: nikolaevich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marshal Mikhail Nikolaevich Tukhachevsky, until his demotion last month Vice Commissar for Defense, one of the greatest tacticians of the Red Army...
Pushkin's widely known work, the tragedy "Boris Godunov," which formed the basis of a famous opera by Moussorgsky, is represented by a first edition copy, published in St. Petersburg, 1831, and originally part of the library of Grand Duke Constantine Nikolaevich. This book was written in 1826, but the Russian Czar refused Pushkin permission to publish it, urging that he rewrite the story in the form of an historical romance like those of Sir Walter Scott. Finally Pushkin prevailed upon the ruler to grant permission, saying that he needed money for his impending marriage...
...Bolshevists for conservatism. Sentenced to death, he was awaiting execution when the Communist Government relented, chased him out in 1922. Next year he came to the U. S., taught at the University of Minnesota, was naturalized in 1930, is now head of Harvard's Sociology Department. Chartmaker Nikolai Nikolaevich Golovine, 58, distinguished World War historian, was once a general staff officer of the Imperial Army and professor at the Imperial Military Academy. He makes his headquarters in Paris, has lectured at the French Military Academy, the U. S. War College...
...third in its series of Boston productions with the following cast: Herr Shaaf Charles Kraus Anna Semenova (Islaev's mother) Minna Phillips Natalie Petrovna (Islaev's wife) Alla Nazimova Mikhail Aleksandrovitch Rakitin Earle Larrimore Lizaveta Bogdanovna (a companion) Virginia Gregori Kolia (Islaev's son) Norman Williams Aleksei Nikolaevich Bieliaev (Kolia's tutor) James Todd Matviei (A servant) Walter Coy Ignati Ilich Spigelski (A doctor) Cecil Yapp Viera Aleksandrovna (Islaev's ward) Franesca Bruning Arkadi Sergicich Islaev (A landowner) Edward Arnold Katla (a maidservant) Glesca Marshall Afanasi Ivanyo Bolshintsov Henry Travers...
...Petrovna, is bored with him and with Rakitin, who is a friend of the husband and a too earnest, too reasonable lover of the wife. A handsome, bashful tutor comes to the household to take charge of the education of young Kolia. The wife falls in love with Aleksei Nikolaevich (the tutor). Her ward, 17-year-old Viera, also falls in love with the tutor, who imagines himself in love with Natalie Petrovna...