Word: grigoryants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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If the Kremlin hierarchy decides a younger man is needed, the strongest contenders are considered to be Mikhail S. Gorbachev, 52. Ronstantin I. Chemenko, an Andropov adversary who has been named to head the temporary caretaker government. The other two names widely mentioned are Mikhail Gorbachev, the youngest Politburo member...
Marshal Grigory Potemkin, one of the more artful lovers of Catherine the Great, accomplished many things during his long domination of Russia, but he is best remembered for an illusion. To impress Catherine with the prosperity that he had brought to her subjects, he is said to have built handsome...
Of Pinball's four major characters, Kosinski is most comfortable with Domostroy, and he puts a lot of himself--including his Eastern European origins--into his composer turned detective. Like his creator, who played Grigory Zinoviev in Reds, Domostroy at the height of his popularity once played "a Russian composer...