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...site as vulnerable. In 2006, a neighborhood association, the Grosvenor Square Safety Group, bought two-page advertisements in The Washington Post and the Times of London that accused the Metropolitan Police and local governments of a moral failure for not closing the two roads adjacent to the embassy. Russian Countess Anca Vidaeff, who lived across from the embassy's side entrance, even held a three-day hunger strike to protest what she claimed was inadequate security. "My property is my pension but I cannot rent or sell my house and my life is in danger," she told the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: US Embassy in London to Move Down-Market | 10/6/2008 | See Source »

...Enter Countess Popova (Eve H. Bryggman ’10), a velvet-clad Russian vamp who rents a room beneath the Marcassols. Unable to restrain himself, Gustave quickly becomes more than just the Countess’ landlord. But he is convinced that he can only run away with her if he can secure a suitable second husband for Claudine...

Author: By Erin F. Riley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Take Her, She’s Yours!’ Takes the Cake | 11/18/2007 | See Source »

...sits by the fire.” So I’m excited for my fiancée to see that scene.RR: Are you going to give him the same divorce condition?MG: Um...Eve H. Bryggman ’10RR: So who do you play?EB: I am Countess Popova. She basically is the tenant who lives downstairs from the main character, and she’s having an affair with him. Actually, she’s having multiple affairs. And so I come on for a couple scenes, talk in a Russian accent, or at least I attempt...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: French Farces at Adams House | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...other places can a diner be so richly steeped in the dramatic vicissitudes of recent Russian history. This stately turreted mansion was built in 1889 in a pseudo-medieval style for Prince Svyatopolk-Chervertinsky and later the same year was bought by Countess Alexandra Olsufyeva...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feasting with Authors | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

...dozens of private assistants who can arrange shark fishing for the adventurous. But if you just want to take a walk, that's fine too. They'll lend you a pair of Wellington boots to keep your feet dry and send the hotel's two Irish setters, Earl and Countess, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grander Hotel | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

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