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With great enthusiasm and a high resolve not to dishonor its name, a group of Cossack villagers form the Joseph Stalin Collective, and in an extraordinary variety of ways proceed at once to run it to the ground. The principal figure in this comedy of Communist errors is Davidov, forthright, well-meaning mechanic and onetime gunner who arrives at the isolated village of Gremyachy Log, in the Don basin, with instructions to organize all the farmers except the wealthy ones. He is ably assisted in getting into messes by Nagulnov, secretary of the Communist Party in the village, a long...
...repertoire this season there are 25 ballets. 13 more than in the first winter. In the company there are 65 dancers, several of whom still travel with their fathers or mothers. In charge of them all is Colonel Vassily de Basil, a onetime Cossack officer who was so determined not to see Russian ballet die out that he organized the troupe, named it "Monte Carlo" for Princess Charlotte of Monaco who gave him his first backing. Colonel de Basil's purse was almost empty when he first arrived in the U. S. But in the last year...
...York has been a Cossack village officially since 1931," said its taxi-driving local Ataman, Cossack Colonel Peter Fedorovitch Abramov, who somehow manages to send his daughter to Hunter College, his son to City College. "It is very silly for the Press to mention me, as I am not a world leader. Our last was Ataman Bogayevsky who died in Paris last October, necessitating this election. The unit of Cossack life for 400 years has been the 'village' and it was Ataman Bogayevsky who made New York a Cossack village...
Dispatches from Paris, with ballots arriving from Africa, Australia and such remote South American outposts as the battle-scarred Gran Chaco, reported Cossack Count Michael Grabbe leading in the world election for Ataman. Trailing was the only U. S. candidate, General Peter Kharitonovitch Popov, now chef in a Boston restaurant. Said Manhattan Ataman Abramov: "Even when we drive taxicabs instead of riding wild horses like our great hero of long ago, Taras Bulba, we don't change-We are still Cossacks...
...least of Joseph Stalin's feats of violence in Soviet Russia has been to suppress and subjugate the famed Cossacks of the Don, for centuries Russia's boldest spirits, enjoying special immunities from the Tsar in return for their deathless loyalty and arrogant readiness to shoot down proletarian scum at the drop of a shaggy caracul hat. Some 20,000 members of the eleven Cossack tribes are now exiles, scattered throughout the world. Best known Cossack among non-Cossacks today is the distinguished War commander, General Peter Nikolaevitch Krasnov, blood-curdling author of such best sellers as From...