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Died. Mikhail Markovich Borodin (real name: Mikhail Gruzenberg), 68, top international Communist agent during the '20s; of unannounced causes; somewhere in the Soviet Union. Born in Byelorussia, he joined the Bolshevist underground at 19, in 1906 fled from Czarist police into exile in the U.S. Back in Russia after the 1917 revolution. Borodin soon went abroad as a Communist legman, fomented abortive "workers' revolutions" in Spain (1919) and Mexico (1920), directed Communist infiltration of labor unions in the U.S. and Scotland. In 1923 came Agitator Borodin's big assignment: advising (and infiltrating) China's struggling revolutionary...
...next Nov. 7, the revolution's 36th anniversary, Upper Row will be back to its historic use as one of Moscow's biggest shopping centers. In its Czarist heyday half a century ago, the Upper Row-one of three huge sandstone arcades, three stories high and glass-roofed, newly built at a cost of $3,000,000-boasted 1,000 shops. Came the revolution, the end of private industry and the proliferation of bureaucracy: the shops eventually became offices...
...years before World War I, plot and counterplot reached a rolling boil in Eastern Europe. In Russia, the famous double spy, Eugene Azeff, paid agent of the czarist secret police, took command of the terrorist branch of the revolutionary underground, and in between the writing of his reports to the police, masterminded the assassination of the Czar's uncle as well as two attempts on the life of the Czar himself. To this day it is not clear which side Azeff was really working for; perhaps Azeff, a great technician of conspiracy, never knew. In Austria-Hungary, Colonel Alfred...
...Pavlovich Beria. Like Stalin, Beria was born in the Transcaucasian state of Georgia. The record says that he came of a poor peasant family in the Sukhum region. At 18, he became a member of the Russian Social Democratic (Bolshevik) Party. He worked underground, was jailed by the post-Czarist government of Azerbaijan, released on the plea of Russian Ambassador Kirov, after which he joined the Cheka (secret police) and took an active part in overthrowing the governments of the Transcaucasian republics and their forcible incorporation in the Soviet Union...
Married. Archduke Rudolph, 34, Swiss-born youngest son of the late exiled Habsburg Emperor Charles I of Austria (1887-1922) and Wall Street junior executive; and Xenia Czernichev-Besobrasov, 24, Smith-educated daughter of an exiled czarist count; in Tuxedo Park...