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...most massive and systematic assaults on individualism, she also salvaged an era of epic hardship and courage from the limbo of censored history. The book began with Mandelstam's first arrest in 1934 for a poem that described the dictator as a tribal hetman savoring each death like a raspberry. Thereafter, the impoverished Mandelstams were hounded all over Russia by vengeful bureaucrats...
...Fifth Wave. Both the tale and the man who told it were in an old Ukrainian tradition. "Look!" he said. "I belong to the fifth wave of Ukrainian emigration. We have been fighting Moscow since our hetman Mazepa* made an alliance with Charles XII of Sweden...
...Poland. Out of the wreck of the central powers and the Russian Empire, new states were created, Poland and the Baltic States among them. Almost at once the Poles found themselves in a new war with the Russians. Marshal Pilsudski led the Polish Army to Kiev to support Hetman Petlura's attempt to carve out an independent Ukraine. The infant Red Army drove out Petlura, chased Pilsudski to the gates of Warsaw. There, General Maxime Weygand of France, in collaboration with the Polish general staff, devised a brilliant strategy, sent the Russians stumbling back...
...trading post of Vincennes, Ind., there is no longer a Gimbel Brothers-owned store; but four Gimbels went there last week to honor their tribe and business, founded there just 100 years ago. At table's head sat Grandson Bernard, president of Gimbel Brothers, Inc. and present family hetman. Knowing his genealogy as well as his retailing (to a Gimbel, the two are one), Bernard proudly enumerated the far-flung Gimbel line...
...Prince Leon Mazeppa von Razumovsky, socalled, who calls himself sole surviving descendant of the Count Razumovsky whom Catherine the Great named as hetman of the Ukraine. In the U.S., where he was known as Jacov Makorin, he was once a member of the Marine Corps. After World War I (in which he did not fight) he became an antique dealer, later found a good living in pushing his claims to the hetmanship of the Ukraine, backed by Canadian Ukrainians and some U.S. speculators interested in oil concessions. When last heard of, he was living in Italy...