Word: kremlin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country villa at Gorky, little town near Moscow, Nikolai Lenin, Premier of Soviet Rusia, suffered a paralysis of his repiratory organs, died. His body was taken to Moscow, where it lay in state pending burial in the Kremlin...
Indeed, the Revolution some time ago seemed to have progressed beyond Lenin. For two years he has been absent from the Kremlin. Trotsky, his partner, has likewise disappeared, "kidnapped" by the chief of Soviet police. Just who are to replace these two men does not appear, but it is apparent that in the near future the Bolshevist party will yield control to some larger group...
...largest is the Izvestiya (News) which, together with the Moscow Pravda (The Truth), is the official Soviet organ. But no part of the press can be said to be independent of the Government. The last press conference was held in the Kremlin, and no ordinary person enters the Kremlin. Bukharin addressed the conference, saying: " Thanks to our press, which has always furthered the recruiting power of our slogans and made the exalted nature of our ideals clear to the masses, we have been able to devlop our power and to strengthen our Soviet system...
Soviet experts, restoring ancient ikons in the Winter Garden of Moscow's Kremlin, found two, three and even four paintings underlying each other on the same wooden panel, concealed beneath centuries of grime and smoke. The lowest layers showed pure Byzantine work of the 11th Century, antedating the Italian primitives and giving evidence of the sources of inspiration for much early Western...
Georgeous ecclesiastical and state vestments - robes in cloth of gold and silver, adorned with pearls, rubies and emeralds - are to be exhibited in the Kremlin Palace at Moscow. These robes are said to be worth a fabulous sum and to be of great beauty. Some of them were made when Constantinople was known to the world under its old name of Byzantium. They were worn only at the highest functions by the dignitaries of the Russian Orthodox Church...