Word: alexei
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chapter of surpassing sadness and chilling detail, Radzinsky uses the commander's testimony for a moment by moment re-enactment of the July night. At 2 a.m. Yurovsky roused the sleeping family and led them downstairs. Nicholas carried his ailing, hemophiliac son, Alexei; Alexandra and her four daughters followed, accompanied by the four family retainers who were all that remained of a retinue of hundreds...
...Soviet denials of Lenin's complicity had long been discredited in the West, but a statement from Alexei Akimov, who in 1918 had served in the Kremlin as a guard to Lenin, completed the case against the Bolshevik leaders. "When the Ural Regional Party Committee decided to shoot Nicholas' family, the Central Executive Committee wrote a telegram confirming this decision...
While trying to piece together exactly what happened to the bodies, Radzinsky detected some intriguing discrepancies. Then a mysterious visitor, whom he identifies only as an old man who worked in the state security organs, claimed that two victims had survived, one of them Alexei Nikolaevich, the Csarevich...
Radzinsky was skeptical. "It was all too entertaining," he says. "As a rule, the truth is very boring." But after learning about a labor camp prisoner called Filipp Semyonov who had shared some characteristics with Alexei, Radzinsky began to consider the possibility. On the evidence offered, though, he is a long way from proving it. Yet as Radzinsky was finishing his book last year, the story took a new turn. The grave site had been dug up and found to contain human remains -- but of only nine bodies...
...callow members of the Unified Team want to win too, but their motivation for playing well is mainly so they can escape to the N.H.L., like nearly two dozen of their former colleagues. Such Unified Team stars as Alexei Jamnov, Alexei Kovalev and goalie Mikhail Shtalenkov know that stellar performances will take them from Moscow's food lines to the land of sports agents and deferred-annuity packages in seven figures. Unified Team coach Victor Tikhonov, who prefers the discipline of the old order to the chaos of the new, is trying to make teenagers play like Heroes...