Word: caucasus
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...spiritual fallout from The Bomb, which he helped build. Intellectually and emotionally paralyzed, he attends a scientific conference in Moscow, befriends a Russian physicist whose experiments parallel Rennet's but whose conclusions do not. Rennet finally straightens himself out in a cliffhanging denouement three miles up in the Caucasus, while trapped by an avalanche. Along the way, Rennet, whose productive barrenness is matched only by his reproductive fecundity, seduces his own secretary, one of his Russian colleague's assistants (with whom the Russian is secretly in love, naturally), and an American expatriate living in Moscow whom Rennet...
...Congratulated the lady manager of a north Caucasus chicken farm for getting her 12,000 hens to lay 176 eggs apiece in 1960 and for pledging her hens to do even better...
...Sabres of Paradise, by Lesley Blanch. A true Arabian Nights tale of 19th century Russia's subjugation of unruly Caucasus tribesmen, replete with high-bouncing feats of battlefield and seraglio...
...Sabres of Paradise, by Lesley Blanch. This history of Russia's struggles to subdue the wild tribesmen of the Caucasus in the 19th century is hardly an orderly chronicle, but its digressions are fascinating, and its heroes are thundering horsemen and high-bouncing lovers...
...wild tribesmen Shamyl ruled lived by the shashka (saber) and kindjal (long dagger). "They sabre each other in the way of friendship," wrote the Russian Poet Lermontov, who, like Pushkin, served in the Caucasus and died in a duel there...