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Word: alexeivitch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. General Alexei Alexeivitch Brussilov, 70, perhaps the most brilliant strategist of the former Imperial Russian Army, in 1916 very nearly successful in outmaneuvering Ludendorff on the southern Russian front, after the Russian Revolution a commander in the Red Army, at all times rated as a superb cavalry leader; at Moscow, of inflammation of the lungs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 29, 1926 | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

...Mill Alexeivitch Balakirev is famous among other things for having organized the Free School of Music. It was this that gave the impetus and the direction to most of modern Russian composing, and it was through this that he exerted such a profound influence on men like Rimsky-Korsakov. His own compositions, however, although few, are as noteworthy as his influence. Professor Hill, assisted by Mr. Leonard, will give illustrations from them at noon today in the Music Building, as a part of Music 4d, Professor Hill's course on the Russian nationalists from Glinka to Stravinsky...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 2/27/1926 | See Source »

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