Word: leningrader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Union yesterday expelled two more U.S. military attaches, accusing them of taking pictures of "a building of defense significance." The action followed a Leningrad incident in which both men were attacked, the U.S. Embassy said. The Soviet move came close on the heels of yesterday's elaborately staged and televised news conference at the Soviet Foreign Ministry at which press chief L.F. Ilyichep charged the United States with waging a secret war on Russia through a massive espionage campaign...
...They Hang Everything." During World War II, while Nazi armies besieged Leningrad, Soviet technicians huddled in bomb shelters deep beneath the Hermitage, patiently picked away at the staggering task of cataloguing the museum's 2,000,000 objects. The job is still going on. Today the collection sprawls through 322 halls and galleries that stretch some 15 miles. Strangely, the museum has no Russian paintings, which are housed in other Leningrad museums. But three of its six departments display only Russian objects ranging from Stone-Age relics to 20th century silverware. Under heavy guard in a basement vault...
...decades art experts around the world have yearned to get through the Iron Curtain and see for themselves what is on the walls of Leningrad's famed, sprawling, be jeweled Hermitage Museum. Those who have been able to do so in the post-Stalin thaw have come away with confirmation of a long-held belief: the Hermitage is every bit as good as the Communists claim (see color pages for some of its rarely reproduced masterpieces). Sterling Callisen, the Metropolitan Museum's dean of education, who recently spent six goggle-eyed, footsore days roaming the Hermitage...
...house her haul. Catherine built a series of apartments adjoining Leningrad's baroque Winter Palace, set up a hanging garden filled with orange trees (that were hustled inside for the winter), and coyly nicknamed the place her "little hermitage." When the revolution came in 1917, the Hermitage was squarely in the middle. For four turbulent months Kerensky's provisional government holed up in the adjoining Winter Palace. After gaining control, the Bolsheviks confiscated the top private art collections in the country, turned the Winter Palace into a massive, 1,000-room art gallery and office building, and opened...
...believe that in five days the 133 members of the Central Committee failed to take up such a pertinent topic as the spreading ferment of discontent in the universities. In Kiev and Azerbaijan, reported the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, students were in an "unhealthy state of mind," and at the Leningrad Technological Institute they indulged in "brash and demagogic remarks" that showed "an effort to ignore completely the undoubted gains of Soviet culture." In Moscow, where university students openly admitted listening to Western radio broadcasts, the youthful audience at a Lenin Library lecture walked out in disgust at the speaker...