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...clock: Baba Yaga chases Hugh McLean across the tundra up to the Decembrist revolt or thereabouts. The speedy trip is accomplished in Sever 31, and is called Slavic 149. Downstairs before lunch Faust and Mephistopheles will inhabit Sever 1 as Professor Atkins offers his biennial course on the Faust legend. German is required, but the reading list is not too long...
When Nicholas I became Tsar, Pushkin's tireless hopes rose again. Unluckily for him, the Decembrist Revolt numbered many of his good friends, all of whom seemed to have subversive Pushkin poems among their papers. Though not directly implicated in the conspiracy, Pushkin was again under suspicion. He was allowed to lay his case before the Tsar. After an hour-long interview Pushkin emerged, seething with loyalty. He was free to go anywhere in Russia, except St. Petersburg...
Commissar Vladimirsky thrilled Sir Arthur and Mr. Kingsbury with the terrors of his life. At 22 (he is 60 now) he was exiled for pre-Communist revolutionary activities against Tsardom. He shared in the "Decembrist" uprising of 1905, was arrested and emigrated "under pressure." In France he practiced medicine, astonished villagers by occasionally treating them free. He was at Lenin's side and Trotsky's during the terrible days of 1917 when the Bolsheviks took command of Russia. No one is more authentically Russian than he, no one more authentically of the Party...
...Russia and the Decembrist Movement" Professor Langer, Harvard...
...Russia and the Decembrist Movement" Professor Langer, Harvard...