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French impressionism. Yet, except for Lenin Prizewinner Aleksandr Deineka's husky peasant girls, which Estorick probably bought for diplomatic reasons, the show is not a dismal display of the Russian Tractor Style. Instead, the rest of the exhibition is heavy with still lifes and landscapes, competent, vaguely Western, strangely empty of invention. Perhaps half a dozen of the 82 artists are important...
Private Vaslly Terkin was the eternal Sad Sacha, and his fictional military exploits poked sly fun at Soviet officerdom throughout World War II. Russians complained mightily when his creator, Poet Aleksandr Trifonovich Tvardovsky, failed to bring him home from the wars. Last week, to their delight, Vasily was back-with a difference...
...Along with veteran Novelist-Propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg. whose controversial memoirs were being serialized in the literary journal Novy Mir. Last week it was reported that the next issue would not carry the usual installment and that Novy Mir Editor Aleksandr T. Tvardovsky had been fired...
Izvestia, which occasionally prints revealing news for its cautionary effect, last week told the story of a defector named Aleksandr ("Sasha") Mirilenko. Sasha was the 18-year-old son of a Ukrainian cultural worker and his teacher wife, both Communists. Always daydreaming about life outside Russia, Sasha started collecting foreign stamps and writing to collectors in other countries. As his pen pals began telling him about the good things on the other side of the Iron Curtain, Sasha's allegiance to the Young Communist League began to falter. He went to the Black Sea resort of Yalta, where...
...Died. Aleksandr Vasilievich Topchiev, 55, chemist credited with a major role in developing the liquid rocket fuels that enabled the Soviets to build their huge space vehicles; of a heart attack; in Moscow. Topchiev was a frequent visitor to the Pugwash conferences staged in Nova Scotia by Russophile Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, where the chemist enjoyed preaching that science is above national politics. But he had a pragmatic side: in 1958, a fellow Russian remarked that what he feared most was an accidental and irresponsible attack on Russia by the U.S., and Topchiev grinned back: "What I fear most is responsible...