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...Russia's tragedy is seen in the inner conflict of this passionately loyal man who, amid mutiny and despair, does not know what his new loyalties ought to be. The doomed family has its socialist, too-idealistic Nicolas Arapov. When the soldiery, whom he pities, pitilessly murder their Czarist officers, he is shocked at their cruelty, even though he has already been set on the road to Bolshevism by his tougher Red mentor, who knows that the idealists "will be destroyed by the reality of the streets...
Judging from the past showing of livestock and dairy production in Khrushchev's Russia, which in some categories is still below Czarist levels, Soviet specialists in the West doubt that Khrushchev can meet his exuberant boasts. Elsewhere in his speech Comrade Khrushchev quoted an old Russian proverb: "A dog barks and the wind carries the sound away...
...First, marking the Russian moviemakers' discovery that sex can be a more interesting theme than Stakhanovism. The film's heroine, a Bolshevik sniperette, fresh from mowing down 40 White Russians in the 1917 Revolution's aftermath, finds herself marooned on a Caspian isle with a handsome Czarist officer. Peeling off their wet clothing after their swim to shore, the ill-starred couple falls head-over-Hegel in love. Inevitably, however, when a boat heaves up to rescue the decadent nobleman, the trigger-happy lady sadly perceives her Marxist duty, hauls out her gun and chalks...
From birth, Alexei Jawlensky, son of a Czarist colonel, was pointed toward a military career. But he wanted to paint. Sent to cadet school in Moscow and later commissioned in an infantry grenadier regiment, Jawlensky petitioned for a transfer to St. Petersburg, where as an officer he could study painting. Finally he resigned, to take off for Munich with another young painting enthusiast, Baroness Marianne Werefkin. Six years later the handsome, passionate and strong-willed Jawlensky had a child by Marianne's young ward, Helena Neznakomov, who became his devoted wife...
Victorians, because of their tradition, aren't always very attractive. In fact, oftentimes they are a down-right bore. So Mr. Merrill has cast aside play-writing convention, and has plopped his 1856 Victorians right into the midst of Czarist Russia (1896)--where people apparently were less set in their ways--and then into the midst of Nixon California (1956) where people apparently are. This is achieved through supernatural power--specifically, the will of the sexy Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn, who has given her Victorian lover-loafer the gift of immortality. We follow him through the three ages into...