Word: petersburg
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...20th century, he is the least knowable of characters. As a boy growing up in Simbirsk, Lenin distinguished himself in Latin and Greek. The signal event of his youth--the event that radicalized him--came in 1887, when his eldest brother Alexander, a student at the University of St. Petersburg, was hanged for conspiring to help assassinate Czar Alexander III. As a lawyer, Lenin became increasingly involved in radical politics, and after completing a three-year term of Siberian exile, he began his rise as the leading communist theorist, tactician and party organizer...
...Bible is full of men falsely accused and persecuted, and the Rev. Henry Lyons, minister of St. Petersburg's Bethel Metropolitan Baptist Church and head of the powerful National Baptist Convention, USA, says he is one of them. While he admits moral lapses, he says the 82-page arrest affidavit served on him on Ash Wednesday, full of charges of racketeering and grand theft, is the devil's work. In the only interview since then, Lyons, 56, told TIME he was a man at peace--"I can sleep comfortably again"--and ready to fight. "My daddy was a strong Baptist...
...adultery (a charge he denies), made her way to the $700,000 mansion in the tony Tierra Verde neighborhood. Finding his clothes and effects in the lavishly decorated home, she set at least four fires. During the trip home, she hit a tree in her own, less expensive St. Petersburg neighborhood and soon admitted to police that she had set the fires. Deborah would later deny that statement, claiming she was mistaken about the affair and that she had accidentally "dropped a match" in the Tierra Verde house. But the incident set off the investigations that resulted in charges that...
...last summer, Lyons cried he was the victim of a racial smear. With each damaging disclosure, an electronic phone-announcement service would summon Bethel members to emergency church meetings. "We need to talk," Lyons would say before launching into his explanation. But soon other skeletons emerged in the St. Petersburg Times and in the state investigation. In 1991 Lyons spent a year in a federal pretrial-intervention program to avoid being prosecuted on bank-fraud charges. His marriage certificate to Deborah says it was a first union for both; in fact it was his third. One ex-wife recently came...
...Reported by Timothy Roche/St. Petersburg...