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...also cleared up a minor mystery-why had she written a letter to Consul General Lomakin after her first escape to Countess Alexandra Tolstoy's farm? "I wanted to speak to them as human beings in order to see that proper arrangements [for staying in the U.S.] could be made. When they came, they were not human beings at all, but arrested...
...police station held the telephone several inches from his ear. A Russian-it sounded as if the caller were being flayed with a dull cabbage scraper-was on the other end of the line. The Russian was speaking from Reed Farm, a 70-acre estate operated by Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, youngest daughter of famed Russian Author Leo Tolstoy. A woman, the Russian cried, had been stolen...
Exiled Peter of Yugoslavia, visiting the U.S. with wife Alexandra and son Alexander, attended Serbian Orthodox Easter services in Manhattan. Royalists in the congregation greeted him with the Serbians' tactful cry that fits every distinguished guest: "Zivio"-meaning simply "Long live...
...Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto espoused "an open, legalized community of women," few subjects have been more frequently disputed by Marxists. Lenin, in one of his sharpest departures from Marxism, vehemently rejected "free love" on the ground that "love is more than drinking a glass of water." But Alexandra Kollontay, who instituted the Soviet system of easy divorce in 1917, was called "Russia's only real Communist" because of her advocacy of free love
...Manhattan's City Center, balletomanes found her new "dance sermon" Billy Sunday (or Giving the Devil His Due) good, saucy fun, if not always good ballet. Ballet Russe's stars Frederic Franklin and Alexandra Danilova not only danced, but spoke-and to everyone's surprise, spoke well...