Word: davidovic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most generous compliments she ever received came anonymously. In 1961, a nameless but extravagant fan contributed enough money to enable her to buy a 1673 Stradivarius now valued at $12,000. Two years ago, another anonymous admirer shelled out $90,000 for Jacqueline's other Strad-the famous "Davidov," once owned by the 19th century Russian cellist Carl Davidov. "The first has an earthy, peasant sound," Jacqueline says. "The Davidov is fine and clear. The extraordinary thing is that the wood still lives after 300 years...
Assigned to a Cossack village, Davidov is soon packing a gun for protection and wrangling with his two assistants, one of whom stays up all night studying English while the other develops a mania for butchering the village cats to protect his pet pigeons...
Grain Trust. A continuation of Seeds of Tomorrow (1935), the novel deals panoramically with the forced collectivization of Russian farmers in the 19305 -a Stalinesque operation that cost 4,000,000 lives. Seimion Davidov, an earnest, gap-toothed sailor from Leningrad, is one of the 25,000 Communist workers sent out to knock the peasants' heads together and get the farms producing for the state...
Nothing goes right. The collective farm manager is cooking the books and concealing a pair of White officers dying of boredom. The Cossacks frustrate Davidov's best efforts with peasant slyness, cheerful inefficiency and occasional open rebellion. When he does get a field mowed, the hay is promptly stolen by farmers from a neighboring collective run by a fat and crafty Ukrainian. And, for once in a Soviet novel, a girl proves more lovable than a tractor: lush, hot-eyed Lukeria soon shows Davidov that there are better uses for a meadow than grazing cattle...