Word: spasso
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before quitting Russia to make for Manhattan this week aboard the Queen Mary, then recross the Atlantic to attend the Coronation of George VI, successful new U. S. Ambassador to Russia & Mrs. Joseph E. Davies gathered at their Spasso Palace in Moscow last week the flower of the Red Army, to be exact its three toughest plants: Voroshilov, Tukhachevsky and Budenny...
...almost daily habit of Ambassador & Mrs. Davies is to walk about two miles from their home in white marble Spasso Palace around the vast, tall-turreted Kremlin Fortress. Embassy offices are in a brand-new Soviet marble building, not in the modernistic style which used to be characteristic of Communist architecture, but an affair of Corinthian columns with acanthus-leaf capitals suggesting the First National Bank in an Ohio or Illinois city. There are not many of these new bourgeois buildings yet in Red Moscow, but they bear out in unmistakably bourgeois architecture the fact that J. Stalin & Co.- although...
rolled into Moscow last week. Interior decorators from Manhattan had just finished doing over the Spasso palace, (built in Tsarist times by a Russian mercantile mogul), to suit Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton Davies. In swept the Davieses' corps of six servants from Manhattan, headed by an authoritative butler who engaged seven Russian servants...
...Communist comrades blinked in amazement at the madness of Americans. The fresh snow in the backyard of the famous Spiridonovskaya Palace was littered with new bathtubs and other plumbing fixtures. One of the handsomest houses in the city, it was built only a few years before the revolution by Spasso, a fur tycoon (soon afterward murdered by his son), and its plumbing, barely 25 years old, is among the most modern in Moscow. But those crazy Americans who rented it as a home for their Ambassador have to have still newer plumbing...
Little did the simple Russians know that even the rich Spasso's palace had to be brought up-to-date if it was to compare with the 66-room triplex apartment in Manhattan to which the wife of the new U. S. Ambassador is accustomed. For last week, when President Roosevelt sailed for Buenos Aires, he left behind him a commission making Joseph Edward Davies U. S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R...