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Svirsky was born in Russia in 1904; seen after his birth his meek, shopkeeper father was accused by Czarist police of revolutionary activity...
After three decades, it was almost unbelievable. In Shanghai, haven of some 20,000 White Russians, they queued up, 500 to 600 daily, at the big grey Soviet Consulate. The would-be comrades included czarist dukes, countesses, generals. Half earnest, half jesting, they quavered: "Will they send us to concentration camps?" One woman asked another: "Is it very frightful?" Then, crossing herself, she filled out her questionnaire...
Russian Fairy Tales. There are nearly 200 stories in Translator Guterman's 662-page book. They were taken from the collection made in Czarist days by famed folklorist Alexander Nikolaievich Afanasiev...
Doukhobors began boycotting war in Czarist Russia a century ago, eventually had to leave. Most of the Dominion's 17,000 industrious, abstemious "Douks" have accepted pacifist alternatives to national service; only the obstreperous sect-within-a-sect called Sons of Freedom balked. In court, the Czar of Heaven disdained to take the oath, said that he would sooner kiss the magistrate than kiss the Bible. Disrobers got two years in the penitentiary; the Czar, a $5 fine...
...Prut was Czarist Russia's boundary with Rumania. In 1918 Rumania received Bessarabia as a reward for joining the Allies, pushed the frontier back to the Dniester, where it remained until...