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...diplomat, he saw service at Rio de Janeiro, Christiania, St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), Peking. At the latter place, he met Edith Gruson, daughter of a wealthy Magdeburg steel manufacturer, married her. They have one daughter. The Baroness is reputed to be one of Berlin's most popular hostesses and to be well known by the U. S. colony...
Trotzky is a general without an arm. Communists have denounced him as a perverter of Bolshevik ideals and a spreader of untruth concerning. "Saint" Lenin. His party suspects him of having designs to usurp the dead leader's place, and change the name of Leningrad to "Trotzkgrad". He is feared especially because the five consonants coming together in the name "Trotzkgrad" make a strong appeal to every true Russian heart...
Princess Dagmar of Denmark left Denmark in 1866, at the age of 18, to marry the Tsarevitch at St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) under the name of Marie Féodorovna...
...government of Russia was seized by the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd (now Leningrad) Soviet on Oct. 25, 1917. Last year, the Bolsheviki replaced the Julian Calendar with the Gregorian and the Bolshevik Bastille Day or Fourth of July was celebrated...
Last week, Thamar Karsavina, famed Russian dancer, premiere danseuse at the Imperial Ballet at St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), made her first appearance in the U. S. at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan. On the same night, another Russian lady, at another theatre, was filling the Manhattan engagements of what is declared to be her farewell tour. Outside that other theatre was displayed an advertisement familiar to five continents, simply worded-the most arrogant advertisement in the world. It read in large letters ANNA PAVLOWA; in small ones, as if the epithet was too indisputable to require emphasis, "The Incomparable." Karsavina...