Word: kochetkov
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...injustice. But since wicked serf-owning aristocrats are now hard to find, the message has little relevance, and what remains is a sometimes amusing, sometimes touching vignette of the Russia of Alexander I. The camera follows a huge, strong, good-natured but deaf and dumb peasant, played by Anatol Kochetkov, who is taken from his plow to serve at his mistress' city house. Her whims and the cowardice of the other servants then proceed to ruin his romances, first with a peasant girl, and then with Mumu...
...Pandit, sister of India's Premier Nehru, and the new Dominion's first Ambassador to Soviet Russia, stepped out of a gleaming Air India DC-3 at Moscow's Vnukovo airport early last month, she got a big reception. Amid the welcoming crowd, portly K. A. Kochetkov, acting chief of protocol, presented her with flowers and showed her unctuously into a new Zis sedan...
Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, the German commander in south Russia, would have esteemed Vassily Kochetkov, a junior lieutenant of the Red Army. Bock commanded 1,000,000 or more men, fighting for Stalingrad, the Volga and the Caucasus. Junior Lieut. Kochetkov commanded 16 Red Guardsmen holding a hillock before Stalingrad...
...dawn twelve of Bock's tanks climbed the hillock toward the swallow's nest of trenches and light fortifications where Kochetkov and his men lay. The Guardsmen had only rifles and hand grenades. Kochetkov was wounded. His Guardsmen spoke briefly to him, and he to them. Four of them fastened grenades to their thick leather belts. Each of the four chose a tank, ran down the hill, and dived headlong. Eight tanks were left. Six of the eight tanks turned and retreated. The two others crawled on toward the Guardsmen's nest. By then only Kochetkov...
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