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...huge Russian voice, Nikolai Feodorovich Kolchitsky, Prior and Chief of the Administration of the Patriarchate, called out to each archbishop in turn: "Whom do you choose Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia?" Each intoned the same answer: "Alexei, Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod...
Thus last week, by a simple roll-call vote, did Sergei Vladimirovich Simansky (Alexei), 67, become the 13th Patriarch of the Holy Orthodox Eastern Catholic and Apostolic Church. This week he was crowned in the illuminated forest which arc lights and laurel decorations had made of Bogoyavlensk Cathedral. Unseen silver bells tinkled, rose to full tones as the Patriarch entered, wearing a white veil and miter, and a green silk robe with white and red stripes and golden cords over the shoulders. With the end of the elaborate service, Alexei's religious authority over 100,000,000 souls became...
Another prose writer whose position is strong is Alexei Tolstoi. He is undoubtedly a distinguished writer and a fine stylist, but he writes mostly about a fairly remote past and has not identified himself with the war. He is now somewhat disliked by a few younger writers for his pomposity and his airs; he is something of an eccentric - writes standing up, for instance, with his manuscript on an inclined chest-high table, like a speaker's rostrum...
...writers are included, but among the great Europeans are: Marcel Proust, Romain Holland, Benedetto Croce, Maxim Gorki, Thomas Mann, Maurice Maeterlinck. Among those less familiar to U.S. readers: Czech Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Czech Novelist Franz Kafka, Ger man Playwright Ernst Toller, Spanish Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, Russian Novelist Alexei Tolstoi...
Soviet Trade Union Chief Nikolai Shvernik (chairman), Communist Party Secretary (and No. 2 Bolshevik) Andrei Zhdanov, Writer Alexei Tolstoy,* Aviatrix Valentina Grizodubova. It was the first time in 25 years that a high church official had found himself in such company...