Word: ivanovich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reception. To welcome and impress the Afghan Potentate, when his train chuffed into Moscow last week, there stepped forward a scrubby-bearded one-time peasant, clad in a plain dark overcoat topped by a soft felt hat. This was Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, beloved President of the Soviet Union.* The effect of his sombre simple garb upon King Amanullah, who for four months has been feted by Presidents in sleek tail coats and Monarchs attired as field marshals, must indeed have been impressive. Darting a quick glance about the station, His Majesty saw not a single silk hat or full dress...
...Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (pronounced Karlee'neen), first chairman of the Soviet Union Central Executive Committee, leaned back in his chair, his face wreathed in gratification. There on his desk in his private office in the Kremlin, Moscow, was an invitation from the City of Boston to participate in its third centenary celebration in 1930. So high an honor could not be refused. With a grin and a flourish the invitation was accepted, a delegation named to proceed to Boston for the event...
...held at Princetion from August 24 to September 19. The purpose of the Institute, is to provide advanced instruction and opportunity for discussion in the general field of Fine Arts, with particular reference to the history and archaeology." The lecturer for the session of 1925 was Professor Milk hail Ivanovich Rostovtzeff, of the University of Wisconsin, who conducted two courses...