Word: aleksey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...luckily ran across him near Poolesville, Md. On a lonely country road, the agents saw him park near a tree posted with a NO HUNTING sign. He briefly got out of his van, then drove away. They watched for nearly an hour. A Soviet embassy official, later identified as Aleksey Gavilovich Tkachenko, drove near the spot, but did not stop. Finally, the agents moved in and picked up a brown shopping bag. At 3 a.m. they surprised Walker at a nearby Ramada Inn. He tried to flee down a hallway but prudently decided not to use the loaded pistol...
Though Prince Aleksey Andreyevich Orlov is only 30, he is the emissary whom his uncle, Czar Nicholas II, trusts with a secret task: extracting a stiff price for Russian commitment. Orlov has other credentials: another uncle is the Earl of Walden, a father figure to young Orlov since the boy's Oxford days. Together, the relatives negotiate the fate of their respective nations. It is not an easy matter. In Russia, revolutionaries are appalled at the prospect of war. Feliks Kschessinsky, a terrorist leader, fulminates, "Half the misery in the world is caused by nice young men like Orlov...