Word: gobelins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knew privation in his youth; and now abandons himself licentiously to pleasures. The dancers of the old Russian ballet and the beautiful women of Leningrad are flattered to be the friends of Zinoviev. Being very generous, nothing is too precious for his friends. Pearl necklaces, Imperial jewels, famous paintings, Gobelin tapestries are to be found today in the hands of the women who enjoy Zinoviev's friendship...
Theft of the Gobelin tapestries...
...dignified structure. The city of San Francisco donated the site in Golden Gate Park. The building will house a permanent art collection, chiefly of French art. Rodin, before he died, selected for it 30 sculptures including two of his own. The California sculptor, Arthur Putnam, is generously represented. Gobelin tapestries and Sèvres vases were contributed by the French Government, and the Queens of Rumania, Yugoslavia and Greece sent examples of their respective national arts. Marshal Joffre laid the cornerstone; Marshal Foch planted a tree in the garden of the "palace...