Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Victim. Simon Petlura, in the opinion of many, was an adventurer. The son of a Russian cabman, he is said to have been active in plotting against the Tsar. In 1918 he entered Kiev, capital of the Ukraine, with the Austrian and German armies, under whose auspices he took the lead in trying to separate that province from the rest of Russia. He not only promoted himself a general but also declared himself ruler of the Ukraine. He failed and was obliged to flee. Two years later he reappeared, this time under the Poles, becoming president of a short-lived...
...group on Tour 1 will proceed to Kharkkov, the Don Basin, up the Dnuper to Kiev and then through White Russia. Tour II will include the Caucasus and the Volga, making possible a study of the old and new agricultural systems. Tour III will take in the Volga, the Caucasus and Crimea, while Tour IV will be devoted to the Urals...
...full title is instructive as a gazetteer of his eight million square miles of absolute domain: "The Orthodox and Pious and Christ-loving, the absolute Autocrat and Great Lord, Crowned and Elevated by God, Alexander Alexandrovitch, Emperoi and Autocrat of All the Russias, His Tsaric Majesty of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod, Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan, Tsar of Poland, Tsar of Siberia, Tsar of Chersonesus in Tauria, Tsar of Georgia, Lord of Pskov and Great Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania, Volhynia, Podolia and Finland, Duke of Estland, Lifland and Kourland and of Semigallia, Samogitia, Bialostok, Karelia, Tver, Jugoria, Perm, Viatka...
...through it of late have gone a motley crew-peasants from the Caucasus, coatless students from Kiev, land-robbed landowners from the Volga Valley. They have turned sharply round the gate, up a stone staircase by the wall, into a low-vaulted room half-lost in the acres of masonry. There they have kissed the hands of a scarred and battered old priest, Basil Ivanovitch Baliavin, known to the world as the Most Reverend Dr. Tikhon, Metropolitan of Moscow, Patriarch of All Russia...
...happened was not known, but happen it did, apparently some time ago. Into Pecherskaya Monastery at Kiev went agents of the drab Cheka (Russian euphemism for High Court of Justice) ; right up into the belfry went they and discovered $400,000 worth of treasures. Then they came down, arrested 15 high ecclesiastics...