Word: kashirin
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...children who live in the town of Nizhni-Novgorod where Gorky spent his childhood. The film has no continuous narrative. Instead you remember many of the images--the docks, the fair, 'Gypsy's' dance, Gorky and his friends combing the Nizhni-Novgorod junk heaps for wheels, and Grandmother Kashirin carting around the family house goblin in her shoe...
...acting in the other roles is fine, without exception. It is the look of the characters that most gives them life. Waspish grandfather Kashirin (M.G. Troyanovsky), Uncle Mikhail (A. Zhukov) whose nose seems to run down from the part in his hair to the floor, and the carnival clowns, who don't need to talk: they all look what they are and, in every gesture, are what they look like. None more than V.O. Massalitinova who plays massive bell-like Granny Akulina. Except, perhaps, for her, no single character dominates the film. It offers instead a horde of images...
...Assistant Commander of the Kiev Military Area under General lona Emmanuilovich Yakir, who was shortly to be executed. In 1937 Timoshenko became Commander of the North Caucasus Military Area, succeeding General N. D. Kashirin, who was shortly to be executed. Later in the year Timoshenko became Commander of the Kharkov Military Area, succeeding General L. Dubovoy, who already had been executed. In 1938 General Timoshenko returned to the Kiev Area as full commander. While in this post, in the autumn of 1939, he directed the Red Army's occupation of eastern Poland...
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