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Five years ago Nina Tarasova sang nothing but Russian peasant songs, songs she heard as a child on her grandmother's estate in the Crimea. Since then she has widened her scope, ferreted out more of the Old Russian songs fast dying under the new regime, explored the folk-music of France, Germany, England. All her songs tell stories. There was one last week in which a French husband glowered and raged at his simpering, deceitful wife. There was an arrangement of the Erlkonig which Goethe and the Kapellmeister Reichardt made for Goethe's cook. Tarasova sang...
...opened his shop and began dealing in delicacies. Later Fortnum & Mason added shoes to its food department, then clothes. Swiftly grew its prestige. Gladstone and Disraeli were steady customers. From Fortnum & Mason Queen Victoria ordered 250 Ib. of beef tea to be shipped to Florence Nightingale in the Crimea. Queen Mary shops there regularly...
Bathing in Crimea...
Sirs: In your vivid summary of H. R. Knickerbocker's remarks on the U. S. S. R., you refer to the relaxations enjoyed by tired Proletarian Dictators on the tropical beaches of the Crimea as "nude mixed bathing" (TIME, Dec. 22) This is perhaps partially true. But it would be a mistake to lead the sensitive readers of TIME into believing that a Soviet bathing beach is sort of glorified American bathing beach (with couples all jumbled up together) minus those essential superficialities, such as bathing suits, on which our great civilization is founded. The most popular bathing beaches...
...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...