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...last week had worked also on the Baltic-White Sea Canal (TIME, Aug. 14, 1933). When Stalin's great system of convict-dug waterways is completed, it will be possible for a river steamer to go from Moscow to any of five seas bordering Russia-the Caspian, Black, Azov, White and Baltic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin's Mercy | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

Chekhov's father kept a grocery shop in Taganrog, a sleepy little town on the Sea of Azov. Chekhov went to work in the shop when he was eight, and hated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet of the Little | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...attacks Azov, warring against Kalmucks, Tartars and Turks. His soldiers desert. His siege fails. He builds ships at Voronesk. He mans them with Dutchmen and Germans. He takes Azov and crucifies the Khan and two generals. He drives a spear into their sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Brute in Purple* | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

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