Word: novgorod
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thunderer. Soviet researches, summarized in a handsome outsized volume published this year by UNESCO (Early Russian Icons, New York Graphic Society; $18), establish the medieval stronghold city of Novgorod, southeast of Leningrad, as one of the great centers of icon making. A Constantinople-trained Greek named Theophanes-called by a contemporary the "very excellent book illuminator and painter"-was the artist who brought the secrets of Byzantium's golden age to the cold north in the late 14th century, sparked Novgorod's greatest period...
Military Career: At 19 served as enlisted man with the czar's dashing Novgorod Dragoons, then joined the revolution's Red irregulars, became a party member in 1919. Educated at Moscow's Frunze military academy, got final professional polish in Germany under famed monocle-wearing General von Seeckt, who taught him the tactics and strategy of the "breakthrough." One of a dozen or so professionals to survive Stalin's pre-World War II army purges (in which 374 generals were killed), rose rapidly in battle command. When Stalin panicked at the German advance on Moscow...
...analysis of the Russian mind. If only in one respect, Erickson is right: the movie is full of Russian life. Each frame is itself a picture; and most are crowded with Gorky's friends, the laborers, convicts, beggars, merchants, clowns and children who live in the town of Nizhni-Novgorod where Gorky spent his childhood. The film has no continuous narrative. Instead you remember many of the images--the docks, the fair, 'Gypsy's' dance, Gorky and his friends combing the Nizhni-Novgorod junk heaps for wheels, and Grandmother Kashirin carting around the family house goblin in her shoe...
Died. Archbishop Grigory, 86, Russian Orthodox Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod, who visited the U.S. in 1947 in a fruitless attempt to unite the Russian Orthodox Church in North America with the church in Moscow; in Leningrad...
...Next Day-Pfft." Bulganin's career illustrates this interlocking of interests among the Kremlin gang. As a Chekist in home-town Nizhni Novgorod, he served under Kaganovich (1918), Molotov (1919), Mikoyan (1920). The official Soviet biography makes Bulganin a proletarian, born of a "worker's family," but his father was probably a clerk, and sufficiently beyond the proletariat to be able to send his boy Nikolai to technical high school, where he got a solid grounding in math, physics and German...