Word: sovietskaya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazine also printed a rebuttal from one V. Reznikov, a waiter at the Hotel Sovietskaya. Pointing out that the pay was low (it is) and tips were "the only form of reward for extra efforts," Waiter Reznikov, a true member of his trade, went on to pay his respects to those whose tribute he accepts: "They don't even know how to sit at the table correctly. They think you should tie your napkin round your neck. Not all of them know that you should not prop your elbows on the table. Some come in without...
...playing chopsticks in F at Tchaikovsky Hall, and doing a "rawther unusual" ballet with three elderly snow sweepers, which cries out for Choreographer Jerome Robbins. The book's most remarkable character is Eloise's guide, Zhenka, who has a magnificently declarative style: "Is possible to see here Sovietskaya Square, pleasure garden with statues, in former days was empty...
...Russian Orthodox prelates waited nervously for the plane from Prague. Aboard it were the latest emissaries from the West: nine U.S. Protestant churchmen representing the National Council of Churches. The Americans, in Russia for ten days of talk with Russian churchmen, were whisked off to lush quarters in the Sovietskaya Hotel, taken that night to The Bronze Horseman ballet at the Bolshoi Theater. Since, for the Americans, it was Lent, and Sunday at that, they seemed a little discomfited. "When in Rome," said one wryly, "do as the Romans...
Phlox & Talks. The Russians, in no mood to niggle when they had such a good thing, welcomed the travelers like long-lost brothers. They sent a special VIP plane to Helsinki to pick them up, put them up lavishly in the Sovietskaya Hotel in suites complete with pianos and radios. "Truly a place for important people," glowed Unionist Harry Franklin. Georgy Malenkov himself invited them out to a handsome country dacha, and after picking a bunch of phlox and gladioli for Dr. Summerskill, told her gallantly: "What has been wrong too often in the world of education is that...
...Constructional Engineering Union. No Communist, he was just back in Britain from the Moscow Economic Conference (TIME, April 14). "Of course I only got to see 30 miles of it around Moscow, but what I saw impressed me tremendously. Yes, tremendously. They put us up in the new Hotel Sovietskaya, the finest hotel I've ever seen-better than anything in Britain. All I had to do was ring the buzzer, and they'd bring me anything I wanted-anything, they said. And what food! Russian breakfasts are the biggest I've ever seen. They served...