Word: crimea
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...year is 1854, and after "rog-ering" his wife in a London closet, he departs for the Crimea, where-you have guessed it already-he leads the charge of the Light Brigade (without meaning to), falls prisoner to Cossacks, escapes from the Russian steppes by sled, and, after many a contretemps, foils the Czar's plan to overrun India by helping a grisly band of Transcaucasians to blow up two boatloads of gunpowder...
Brandt and Brezhnev have met twice before: in Moscow in 1970 and in the Crimea in 1971. Indications are that both men respect each other. "When I first met Brezhnev," Brandt once recalled, "he carried his briefing book in front of him. When we discussed the Middle East, he turned to that section and read a statement. When we discussed Berlin, he did the same. When I went back a few months later, there was no briefing book. Brezhnev knew what he wanted to say on all subjects and said it. He's a fast learner...
...Crimea, you name...
...crowned heads of Europe. She was also the last great British monarch presiding over the largest empire in history. Her personality-dominated by Albert-affected nearly all the great events of the 19th century, from the revolutions of 1848 to Britain's brave bungling in the Crimea. But when Albert died in 1861-of typhoid fever, from the fetid drains of Windsor Castle-she was left in an almost unimaginable isolation. "The words on all lips," runs the last sentence of Woodham-Smith's book, "the feelings in all hearts were: 'What is going to happen...
Martin, who owes his flowery last name to a Swiss grandfather, is a dreamy Russian youth who is pried from his comfortable calendar of winters in St. Petersburg and vacations in the Crimea by the 1918 revolution. He emigrates via Yalta to Greece, Switzerland, and England, where he eventually studies at Cambridge. There he is overwhelmed both by unrequited love for a bitchy girl named Sonia Zilanov and by seductive images of his lost Russia infracted "through the prismatic wave of memory...