Word: leningrad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russian folklore, later by classical forms. In 1905 he was chosen to succeed Rimsky-Korsakov as director of the Imperial Conservatory of Music at St. Petersburg. In 1917, when most artists fled Russia, Glazounov stayed on, fought bravely to maintain the pre-Revolution standards of the newly named Leningrad State Conservatory which he heads today...
...government office in Moscow, one Philip Stephanovitch Prohcroff, gets unaccountably drunk the night before pay day, aided by the office porter and the cashier, young Ivan. Next morning they find .themselves, with a large wad of government money, and in a most regrettable condition, on the train to Leningrad. Horrified, they immediately get drunk again. Never quite sober, always refusing to face the fact, they wander about Leningrad from hotel to nightclub, from the city to the country, and finally, in despairing, shaky soberness, return to Moscow and jail. A typical scene...
Last week a new set of cancellation stamps went out to Soviet Post Offices from Leningrad to Odessa. Postmen carried to astonished comrades letters postmarked...
Professor Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, famed Russian physiologist, author of Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes, refused an official celebration of his 80th birthday at Leningrad. Reason: Physiologist Pavlov is no friend of Communism. Said he, "I deplore the destruction of cultural values by illiterate Communists." Mindful that upon his research rests the behavioristic "Science of Marxism" and Marxian doctrine, the Soviet tolerates his slaps gently and without reproach, babies him. Birthday gifts from the Soviet to him include $50,000 endowment of his laboratory and an assurance that traffic would be diverted from the street near it so as not to disturb...
...Leningrad, U. S. S. R., nine directors and engineers of the Soviet shipbuilding trust were arrested last week, charged with treason in trying to obstruct the government's shipbuilding program...