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...Balkan cruise last summer. Coronation time it will lie off Southampton, taking the Davieses cruising to the Spithead naval review, and after the English festivities are over, according to Ambassador Davies this week, the Sea Cloud will cruise across the North Sea into the Baltic and tie up at Leningrad-the first right royally splendiferous yacht to make that port since it was Petrograd and yachts of Grand Dukes galore lay in the breathtakingly beauteous harbor of "the Venice of the North...
Fortnight ago the Davieses had a grand time in Leningrad, even today a city which retains in its architecture much smack of Capitalist pomp. It is also a chief Soviet industrial centre - most unfortunately from a strategic point of view. For that matter the industrial centres of the Ukraine visited by Mr. Davies last week are located much too near the European frontier of Russia for the peace of the Soviet's military minds. Imperial Russia had enormously larger buffer territories, holding Finland, the Baltic States, Poland and great areas now part of the Balkans- but part of Lenin...
...Leningrad the Davieses sat in the same Great Opera Theatre as did the Tsars & Tsarinas. They even saw the same typically Capitalist sort of opera, namely Eugene Onegin, presented as handsomely as under the Romanovs. The theme of this opera is a poem of at times ridiculous and always entirely bourgeois flirtation and frustration-unless one is a Russian, for all Russians, whether Communists or not, love the poet author of Eugene Onegin, faintly black-blooded Pushkin, "The Russian Shakespeare...
...thus saving their Russian hosts the cost of local banquets for the U. S. Ambassador. He will feed as many local bigwigs as possible, also five U. S. correspondents. Next the Davieses will hurry to Manhattan, embark on their yacht for the Coronation (see p. 19), thence cruise to Leningrad where they will maintain the yacht ready for use at all times...
Sasha studied first with the leader of the orchestra his mother kept for her own amusement. Later teachers were Otakar Sevcik of Prague and Professor Seligman of Leningrad Conservatory. He was 14 when he made his debut in Vienna, impressed critics with his fluency, impressed his father into buying him a $100,000 Guarnerius del Gesu violin...