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Divorced. By Maria Rasputin Bern, 45, animal-taming daughter of mad, murdered Grigory Rasputin, spiritual adviser to the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia: Gregory Bern (formerly Bernadsky), 44, electrical engineer; after six years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles.
*The Zinoviev letter, purportedly written to British Communists by the Chairman of the Third International, Grigory Zinoviev (purged and shot in 1936), urged them to take over the Government by force. Laborites claimed that the letter was a Tory forgery. But it helped to lose them the general election in...
Behind the wild, gloomy Caucasus Mountains lies a sunny valley that not only pours oil into Russia's lap but has cradled many of Russia's top leaders. From Georgia, one of a multitude of small republics and autonomous regions in the Caucasus, Joseph Stalin went forth to...
New Fronts for the Axis? In Siberia, a Russian army under General Grigory Stern stood on its arms, waiting for the Japanese under General Seishiro Itagaki to strike east from Manchukuo against Vladivostok, north toward Lake Baikal to cut the Trans-Siberian Railroad. If the slashes struck deep, Russia'...
"On Us Alone." Semion Timoshenko came out of the Finnish war with the Order of Lenin, the cherished title of Hero of the Soviet Union, a Marshalship and credit for smashing the Mannerheim Line. Actually he had to share the credit with two others: Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov, then & now Stalin...