Word: mikhailovich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around to the subject of painting, but artists could take a hint. On the heels of Zhdanov's blast against "bourgeois decadence" in Soviet music (TIME, Feb. 23), 25 members of the Union of Soviet Artists met in Moscow. Puckery, wavy-haired Union Chairman Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov read the party decree on music. The Moscow Bolshevik reported: "A lively discussion. Various painters pointed out that painters were plagued by the same disease as the composers. They spoke about the remnants of formalism, falsely understood novelty, and neglect of the best traditions of Russian classic painting...
...their slushy galoshes at the entrance. The Ministers' meeting place, about 15 minutes by car from central Moscow, was the Aero (Aviation Officers') Club, a massive grey building which underwent refurbishing operations up to zero hour; workers put in carpets, telephones, new toilet seats. Soviet Painter Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov inspected the decorations, found that French Foreign Minister Bidault's room contained only some dull landscapes. Forthwith, Gerasimov ordered them replaced by "lighter subjects," including a nude. In pre-revolutionary days, the Aero Club had been one of Russia's gaudiest restaurants, the Yar; pre-revolutionary Russians...
Cheng's challenge was promptly conveyed to Yuri Mikhailovich Zezukevich, the Russians' acting director of the Combine, and his assistant, multilingual George Chneider. Countered Chneider: "Our presence is not only admitted and approved by both Russia and China, but ordered. I have been informed that a joint commission in Harbin is even now discussing the future of Fushun. Until they reach a decision, the Combine continues to belong to the Sino-Soviet Changchun Railroad. Surely we do not intend just to sit around and drink tea. Maybe it is a Chinese custom to drink tea in the office...
Kalinin's successor is gruff, bustling, 57-year-old Vice President Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik, who will now function both as President of the Union and as an alternate member of the policymaking Politburo. The Soviet Union's longtime trade-union chief, he is primarily the workers' man, where Kalinin was the peasants' champion. The son of a Leningrad janitor, he was the only member of the All-Union Soviet of Trades Unions Secretariat to survive the purge of 1937. As Russian leaders go, he has a wide horizon: he made two wartime excursions to trade-union...
Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Russia's sharp-eyed, correct Commissar for Foreign Affairs, was rated the top "glamor boy" of the San Francisco conference by Britain's pert Delegate Ellen Wilkinson, Labor M.P. Her one qualification: Molotov (unlike Britain's Eden and America's Stettinius) was not really very glamorous "to look...