Word: baranov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more set in their ways. Top-level Americans and Russians have made a deliberate effort to know each other as men, which the British are more slow to do. For instance, when Brigadier W. R. N. Hinde, British Military Governor, wants to see the Russian Military Governor, General Nikolai Baranov, he sends an officer to make the appointment a day in advance, then appears with several officers in his retinue. When his U.S. opposite number, Colonel Frank Howley, a lean, hard-working advertising man from Philadelphia, wants to see Baranov, he just walks...
Next day - the Fourth of July - the Americans lined up in the courtyard of Lichterfelde's former SS barracks. Opposite them was ranged a Red Army detachment. Major General Nikolai Baranov, commander of the Russian garrison in Berlin, welcomed the newcomers. General Omar N. Bradley, commander...
...Ukraine, the action was old-time Blitzkrieg in reverse, with the Red Army's performance as spectacular as anything the Wehrmacht has yet shown. Thus, Zhitomir fell to a cavalry corps of three divisions under Lieut. General Victor Baranov (who, for the feat, received the coveted Order of Suvorov, First Class) and a tank army under Lieut. General Pavel Rybalko, who won fame in last winter's campaign. So fast were these generals moving (120 miles in nine days) that happy Moscow gave their chief, General Nikolai Vatutin, a fond nickname: Molnya -Lightning...
...last Russian missionaries and naval officers arrived in Alaska. The missionaries hated Baranov for allowing his men to live with Aleutian women, haunted his own "wife" so unmercifully that she threw Baranov's child into the sea. The officers despised Baranov because he was a merchant. Intrigues and revolts were started against him. At last he received the title of Governor and a decoration from the new Emperor, Alexander...
...Baranov longed to go home. "The place," he wrote, "has made me old before my time. . . ." But by then the Russian Government wanted him to stay in Alaska. The writings of Explorers Vancouver and Puget had opened the eyes of his Government. The Northwest became officially Russian and was ruled by Baranov until a few months before his death in 1819. He left behind 24 settlements, "ranging in size from simple hunting stations to New Archangel, whose worth alone was estimated at two million, five hundred thousand rubles...