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Final Parade. The heroes of Envy are exquisitely fashioned for the roles of victims. Nikolai Kavalerov and Ivan Babichev have become ne'er-do-wells who can barely breathe, let alone prosper, in the new Russia. Both are short and fat, broke and ludicrously dressed, and much too fond of beer. They are dreamers and, even worse, scoffers...
Gold, rather than purple, was Russia's royal color. Catherine the Great was married in a sylph-waisted, fairy-tale gown of spun gold embroidered with silver. When Ivan the Terrible broke the Tartar's grip on the Volga, he had the Crown of Kazan fashioned out of gold filigree, every contour of which mirrors the onion-topped domes of the Kremlin's shrine of St. Basil. The Great Hall of St. George in the Grand Kremlin Palace is a massive-pillared, arching vault lit by gilded one-ton chandeliers. The last Czar, Nicholas II, could boast...
...Died. Ivan Karaivanov, 71, Bulgarian-born, Moscow-trained international Communist agent who organized Iraq's Reds during World War II, sided with Yugoslavia during the Tito-Stalin rift, became a close Tito crony, a member of the Central Committee of the Yugoslav Communist Party; of kidney and heart ailments; in Belgrade...
...Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars. Ivan is still terrible, but resembles his historical self less than he resembles Joseph Stalin-which was the intent of the late director Sergei Eisenstein...
...Ivan the Terrible: Part 2-The Revolt of the Boyars. Ivan is still terrible, but resembles his historical self less than he resembles Joseph Stalin-which was the conscious intent of the late director Sergei Eisenstein...