Word: crimea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago the defeat in the Crimea of General Peter Nicholaievich Wrangel left Russia's White Army stranded in a Bolshevik prison camp near Constantinople. Provisions were scarce. The troops had nothing left but the frayed uniforms on their backs. Bandsmen had lost their instruments. To raise the morale, each regiment formed a chorus...
Born in Holland in 1802 of French parents, Constantin Guys began his career as an illustrator about the time that the fateful Hernani was produced. As Parisian as Baudelaire in his tastes, it was his fate to spend much of his active life in Turkey, Greece, Spain, Algeria, the Crimea, as a staff artist for the Illustrated London News. He died in Paris in 1892, having spent the last seven years of his life in bed with a broken leg. He was intimate with Thackeray, Théophile Gautier, Delacroix, Manet, Baudelaire. Few artists had more affectionate friends...
Alia Nazimova, 50, was born of well-to-do, cultivated parents in Yalta, the Crimea. She had schooling at Zurich, studied the violin at Odessa, spent four years in a Moscow dramatic school. Aged 26, she made her U. S. debut after a European tour with Paul Orleneff's Russian company. A year later the Brothers Shubert contracted with her to play in English; she learned the language in six months, appeared in Manhattan in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. So successful was she that the Shuberts built her the Nazimova Theatre (now the 39th Street Theatre). With Lionel...