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...Afanassy Constantinovich Abrikosov, Stalin's doctor and a top Russian specialist in heart disease, privately told Soviet leaders that Stalin's illness consisted of a worsening angina pectoris. The diagnosis had been established by a medical council at Sochi the day before...
...nomadic Mongols under famed Prince Te who openly exacts regular bribes from both Nanking and Tokyo (TIME, March 23 et ante), but seems in the depths of his complex character to be anti-Red. Just over the Soviet frontier is the Bolshevik Far Eastern Army under able General Vasily Constantinovich Blucher. In 1924-27, Comrade Blucher, under the nom de guerre of "General Galen," was chief military adviser to Generalissimo Chiang, then supplied by Soviet Russia with money and munitions. After the Generalissimo had conquered China and publicly renounced Communism, Red General Galen was permitted to "escape" via Shanghai...
...until comparatively recent times did such painters as the late Léon Bakst and goat-bearded, mystic Nicolas Constantinovich Roerich attempt to start a really Russian school of painting, based on Russia's Byzantine iconographers. There were few examples of this at the Hammer Galleries. The sort of pictures that the Tsars and their friends liked were skillful paraphrases of British and French 19th Century portraits, sentimental landscapes, super-magazine illustrations. On view were five seascapes by Ivan Aivazovsky, a marine painter so beloved by Grand Dukes that they used to buy his pictures by the square inch...
Proud indeed last week were followers of Nicholas Constantinovich Roerich, painter-explorer-mystic. In the 24-story apartment-house-museum which his disciples have built for him on upper Riverside Drive, Manhattan, there was happy talk about the Master's latest step in his mission of Unifying Humanity Through Art. From Roerich in Paris had come a cable saying that the League of Nations' International Commission of Intellectual Cooperation (TIME, Aug. 4) had endorsed an international convention suggested by him to ensure Art's neutrality and safety in wartime. The "Roerich Pact" was drawn...
...Paris, en route to India (where his wife is ill) to continue his painting and archeological trips, Professor Nicholas Constantinovich Roerich, Russian artist-scientist-mystic, founder of Roerich Museum, in Manhattan, learned that a visa for India had been denied him by the British Government, which charged him with sympathy for the Soviets. Said he: "Any person who is even superficially acquainted with the nature of my work and activities for the past 40 years will understand that the allegation of Communism is inconsistent with the truth...