Word: novgorod
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the Middle Ages Sweden was successively the terror of Russia and of Germany. The great Russian trading centre Novgorod was founded originally by Swedish corsairs; they pressed down the Dnepr River and into the Black Sea to trade with "Miklagarth the Golden" as they called Istanbul in their Sagas; and on Midsummer Eve, 1630 the greatest of Swedish kings, Gustavus Adolphus, "The Lion of the North," launched an invasion that swept irresistibly across Germany...
...taken out of Russia after elaborate negotiations, insured for a reputed sum of $100,000 and called priceless. Visitors to the first public showing in the U. S. found the 96 paintings prime examples of colorful, realistic, popular art, ranging from Klavdii Labedev's classic The Fall of Novgorod, to almost photographic scenes of factory and peasant life by Soviet artists. Watching the reaction of Wisconsin students, Professor Oskar Frank L. Hagen, curator of the university's paintings, said they were "flabbergasted and enraptured with pleasure...
...Fogg Museum also announces that the second of a series of four illustrated lectures on "Medieval Russian Churches" will be given tomorrow at 4.30 o'clock in the Fogg Museum. It is entitled "Novgorod and Oskov...
...Least potent but most popular of the three is Gorki, Red Russia's Grand Old Man of Letters. Long before the Revolution, when it was still in the lower depths, he hitched his wagon to the Red star; as the star rose, so rose Gorki. His birthplace, Nizhni-Novgorod (chief navigation centre on the Volga River famed for its annual fair and now the site of a state automobile plant) has been renamed Gorki (TIME...
Impatient to get hair and start making felt at once, the Ministry of Light Industry dispatched a special barbers & felters shock brigade to Gorki (once Nizhni Novgorod), seat of the Soviet Union's biggest truck factory. When the brigade arrived Gorki was plunged in gloom. Officials had just turned in their year-end report, admitted that during 1932 Gorkites built only 7,500 trucks, compared to the Five-Year Plan scheduled production...