Word: blanckenhagen
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Born the younger son of a noble family in what became Latvia after World War I, Peter von Blanckenhagen has travelled a long road to his guest appointment in classical art this spring. Naturalized as an American citizen in 1955, he holds something of a record of having been a legal citizen of four countries in succession, and at one time a citizen of none. He was Russian until the Bolshevik revolt, legally Latvian until 1941 when Latvia was annexed. Then he became German where his family had emigrated some time before as their familial holdings had been confiscated...