Word: crimea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collection, however, is the autographed manuscript of "The Charge of the Light Brigade," probably his best known poem. This was first published in the newspapers. The soldiers in Crimea, seeing the poem, sent a request to the government that copies of "The Charge of the Light Brigade" be sent to all of them in Crimea. The worn, crumpled copy in the exhibition belonged to a soldier...
Adolf Joffe was 44 years old when he died. Born in the sunny Crimea, he joined (at the age of 17) the ranks of the Social Democratic Party, the left wing of which became the present Bolshevist movement. An education in Russia being consequently denied to him, he went to Berlin and there studied medicine (1903-6), thence to Zürich to study law (1907), thence to Vienna to study law & medicine. His departure from Berlin was precipitated by the authorities who, on account of his radicalism, considered him an undesirable alien...
...Tour 1 will proceed to Kharkkov, the Don Basin, up the Dnuper to Kiev and then through White Russia. Tour II will include the Caucasus and the Volga, making possible a study of the old and new agricultural systems. Tour III will take in the Volga, the Caucasus and Crimea, while Tour IV will be devoted to the Urals...
...thus listened too readily to the counsels of one whom he believed a holy man, able to "talk with the blood" of Alexis. Deft, Biographer Poliakov adds the tale of how Alexandra, Britain's Dowager Empress, sent the Dreadnaught Marlborough to rescue from a Bolshevik "Prison" in the Crimea her sister the Dowager Empress of Russia...
...tried to kill Tsar Alexander II* in 1875 by mining the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg (now Leningrad). He told how he mined the railway track in 1879 along the route to be taken by the Tsar on his return to the capital from the Crimea. He told how, in 1880, he had mined a bridge in an attempt upon the life of his Tsar. He told why he was always unsuccessful...