Word: vassilievich
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...blonde? A punch in the nose? You can get it in Detroit-wholesale. The atmosphere in Detroit is large; it differs from that of the diplomatic capitals of Europe. This does not mean that Detroit cannot handle a diplomat now & then. Take last week. Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Vassilievich Novikov was entertained for two full days. And he could tell he wasn't in Budapest...
...citizens who stay away from concerts, the best-known high-brow composer now living is probably Russian-born Sergei Vassilievich Rachmaninoff. His crashing Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, first introduced to the U. S. in 1898 by his friend Pianist Alexander Siloti, immediately started to outsell Tin Pan Alley's song hits, has rolled up a total of some 5,000,000 copies. In 1909, when 36-year-old Rachmaninoff made his U. S. debut as a concert pianist, the "Flatbush* Prelude," as it was then known, had made his exotic name familiar to U. S. lips...
Officially in Moscow declared the Commissar for Justice, Nikolai Vassilievich Kryleriko: "Those in the Soviet Union who want to restore the Capitalist system will get from our new Constitution neither freedom of the press nor of speech...
Died. Georgi Vassilievich Chicherin, 64, onetime Tsarist diplomat, Soviet Russia's first (1918-30) Commissar for Foreign Affairs; of diabetes; in the Kremlin Hospital, Moscow...
Unseen by Museumgoers, too, was Otto Dix's great oil of War. This mighty work, compared by some to the war paintings of the late Vassili Vassilievich Vereshchagin, was originally hung in a Cologne museum. When Adolf Hitler came into power indignant Nazis spirited it away, whither no man will tell. Approximately 9 x 9 ft., War depicts a jungle-like ravine choked with abandoned corpses and military refuse. Grass grows from skulls that have spilled their brains; hands without bodies clutch vainly after life; a cadaver on the skeleton of a twisted barricade rots in mid air. The whole...