Word: kharkov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West last week got an exceptionally entertaining glimpse of the Soviet art world. The source: the Moscow newspaper Soviet Culture. Reporting on the Kharkov Art Factory, which produces hand-painted copies of popular Russian pictures, the paper told how Factory Director G. V. Avrutin called a meeting to raise production. Said Avrutin: "Seven hours for a canvas of 57 by 84 centimeters [22 in. by 43 in.]? There is no need to waste so much time." Avrutin turned for an example to the task of copying Morning in the Pine Forest, a 19th century favorite by Ivan Shishkin. "The depth...
...lead the German landing in Britain (Operation Sea-Lion ) that never happened (because the amazing British beat off Goring's air assault). In Russia, he opened the fortified gateway to the Crimean peninsula, stormed the Russian Black Sea naval bastion at Sevastopol, and led the counterattack that retook Kharkov in March 1943. Hitler, disliking his outspoken manners as much as he depended on his ability, finally fired him in 1944, first acknowledging: "Manstein is perhaps the best brain that the General Staff Corps has produced...
...Time of the Assassins, by Godfrey Blunden. A tale of two fanaticisms-SS and NKVD-in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov (TIME...
...Time of the Assassins, by Godfrey Blunden. A tale of two fanaticisms-SS and NKVD-in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov (TIME...
...Time of the Assassins, by Godfrey Blunden. A tale of two fanaticisms-SS and NKVD-in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov (TIME...