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...Sommaripa has enjoyed very extensive association with leaders prominent in Russian political life. A graduate of the Military School of the Grand Duc Constantin and of the college in Kiev, he served in the early years of the war in the Imperial Army both with the General Staff and at the front. In 1916 he was wounded, and taken prisoner by the Germans. After two and one-half years in the prison-camps of Germany, he escaped, joined General Denikin's Government in southern Russia, and acted there as private secretary to the Minister of Railroads and Communications until...
...found what he claims will be "the only modern Art school in the world," because America, young, unspoiled and the only great country not gravely crippled by the War, is the place to look for the great Art of the future. He is a Ukrainian, born and bred in Kiev. In Berlin he recently closed a school to which flocked students from all over the world. At Prague he did a bust of Masaryk, President of Czecho-Slovakia. His bust of his wife (a native of Berlin), who accompanies him to America, is in the Leipzig Museum...
...Kiev synagogue the congregation stampeded because the lights were suddenly extinguished and cries of fire raised. Sixty persons were crushed to death...
...matter of fact, the expedition to Kiev was only one episode in a war which has been going on since December, 1918. The contest started almost as soon as the Polish state came into existence; and as soon as the Germans retired from the occupied district, thus allowing the Bolshevik and the Poles to come in contact. It was started by an invasion of Polish-speaking territory by the Bolsheviks, who at that moment were eager to break through into German territory, and expected to meet little resistance from the newly formed and quite unarmed Poland. Thus...
...first view has received a kind of sanction from what seem to me some very unfair statements of Mr. Lloyd George in which he has accused Poland of being the aggressor. The people who make this charge usually try to prove it by pointing to the Polish expedition to Kiev last May and seem to imagine that the war began with this expedition, and that Poland thereby needlessly and wantonly challenged Russia...