Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians struck first with an army group from the east, on a line north of the Masurian Lakes. The honor went to the Third White Russian Army group, commanded by 37-year-old tank expert General Ivan D. Chernyakhovsky. The Third drove in from the east on a 25-mile front along the Kaunas-Insterburg Railroad. Then the Second White Russian Army group under Colonel General Georgi F. Zakharov struck from the Narew River in the south and the First Baltic Army group of Armenian General Ivan K. Bagramian pushed in from the north near Tilsit. In 1914 the Russians...
Last week the armies of Generals Ivan Masslenikov and Andrei Yeremenko crashed through the defense belt from the northeast and southeast, fought their way into the wide boulevards of the suburbs, into the narrow, winding streets of the town. Riga fell. In Moscow, Joseph Stalin ordered the maximum victory salute: 24 salvos from 324 guns...
Plunge to the Sea. Earlier in the week, bald and black-mustached General Ivan Bagramian-the onetime Armenian herdsman and train mechanic who first reached the Gulf of Riga last summer-reached the sea again, this time 15 miles north of Memel. The Germans trapped between Memel and Riga began trying to escape from Libau, Latvia's second-largest port, and from the port of Windau farther north, under a hail of fire from Red planes. At night people on Gotland Island, which lies in the Baltic west of Latvia, saw flashes from big naval guns...
Drive to East Prussia. Tauroggen, where the treasonable Convention of Tauroggen was signed in 1812, lies just outside the modern border of East Prussia. The Germans admitted evacuating Tauroggen last week, as General Ivan Chernyakhovsky's army, which had long threatened the province from the east, now crowded close in the north. Red bombs rained on the East Prussian junction town of Tilsit, whose railroads lead to Insterburg and Königsberg...
...fair question to ask why at this moment the Russian theater is so retrospective-why new plays are being produced this season on Ivan the Terrible and on Admiral Nakhimov of the Crimean War; why so much reverence is accorded to Chekhov, who perhaps foreshadowed the Revolution in his plays but certainly satirized revolutionaries. It has been fashionable in America to attribute this to an abatement of Russia's revolutionary and communistic spirit. This seems to me wrong. A better guess is that this country, shaken within a few inches of its life by this war, has, like...