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Twenty-seven years ago Shoeman Schultzenstein married a girl with whom he lived until 1923, when she attacked him with a meat-hatchet. Husband and wife then lived apart until 1926, when he made a business connection in Leningrad, went there to live. Soon he took a Russian wife under Soviet law without previously divorcing his meat-hatchet spouse in Germany...
...done in his first, scorned manner which caused the furor last week-his Scythia Suite, fearfully exhilarating with its barbaric dances, its wailings, its concluding salute to the sun; then his Second Piano Concerto, originally composed in 1913 but lost when the Soviet Government confiscated all Prokofiev property in Leningrad and only recently rewritten from sketches...
...counterfeited notes were manufactured in the Soviet Government's own printing house in Leningrad and in two printing houses in a Russian city on the Don River. The printed notes were despatched to the first triumvirate, which counted and controlled them...
...middle ages a proud port of trade was the free city of Novgorod, situated on Lake Ilmen in what is now Northern Russia, some 100 miles from Leningrad. Merchants there knew that they owed their prosperity to the singer Sadko, often told their children how he had made the River Volkhov to flow, thus opening their city to the sea. The legendary Sadko appealed to famed Russian Composer Nicolas Andreievich Rimsky-Korsakov, who wrote an opera about him in which is included "The Song of India." In its proper setting, in the opera Sadko, it was heard for the first...
...Cathedral of St. Isaac in Leningrad (once St. Petersburg) is now the Counter-Religion Museum. It contains a display of 1,100 pairs of nails, said to have been collected from 1,100 villages. The Russian Clergy are accused of having permitted the adoration of each and every pair of these nails for centuries as the authentic pair with which Christ was nailed to the "True Cross," Of the latter, several complete examples are on view, together with a collection of obscene statuettes, which the Clergy deny were carved by Russian monks in their monastery leisure. In Tiflis...