Word: ilya
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...snakes would creep to him for warmth. He thanked them for the overcoat-which had to be smuggled to him because the monasteries disapprove of him, the solitary-and in return asked them only one favor: they must never tell anyone his real name. Let them call him "Father Ilya" or anything like that. "Because I have put away the world," he said. "And now I will still know that no one is thinking about me, that I am here all alone...
...When America falls from the fiftysixth story of the Woolworth Building, there will be a bad crash," declared Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of the famous Russian philosopher, now lecturing in this country...
Resurrection (Rod La Roque, Dolores Del Rio) is a powerful and thoroughly satisfying picturization of Count Leo Tolstoy's novel. Under the adept direction of Edwin Carewe, abetted by Count Ilya Tolstoy, the tale of nice and unnice love, betrayal and soul-redemption is spun deftly and irresistibly to its logical close. Suave Rod La Roque is splendidly convincing as the idyllic, villainous and ultimately penitent Prince Dmitri. Dolores Del Rio is no whit less splendid as the luckless Katusha Maslova...
Once each season, Ilya Schkolnik, concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony leaves his desk to be soloist. It was Beethoven's Concerto in D Major that he chose this year for his own violin, and the critics said " never has he disclosed his artistic stature in so distinguished a manner...
Introduced by Professor Leo Wiener and speaking before a large audience in the Living Room of the Union last night, Count Ilya Tolstoy described vividly the present conditions in Russia which have arisen from the Bolshevist regime and gave what he thought would have been his father's answer to the problems confronting Russia had he been alive today...