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Glazunov's gesture was both in character and surprising to many Russians, for the Leningrad-born painter's career has whipsawed several times over the past two decades. In 1957 the artist outraged conservative Muscovites by exhibiting a nude portrait-a form of art long frowned on by the puritanical Soviet commissars. The figure was readily identifiable as his wife Nina. Another Glazunov show was closed in 1964 because of his unsparing depiction of ordinary Soviet life. After two years in deep disfavor, Glazunov began a comeback when then Danish Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag asked that...
Participants at the gathering included ten American and Canadian scientists that Soviet officials warned not, to attend, but did not attempt to stop. The officials turned back Wald and Robert Goldberg, a scientist from the National Institutes of Health, when they tried to leave Leningrad for the conference...
Peace and Quiet. Costakis claims that he never expected to make a fortune from his pictures. "If I had been thinking of making money," he says, "I would have gone to Leningrad after the war and bought some of the many Western paintings available there. But I bought these paintings because I loved them. People were telling me years ago that the painters I collected were not important. Maybe I had a few, like Chagall, but the rest, like Popova, Klyun and Rodchenko, were just followers. I didn't agree with them. It is not nice...
While you sit there drinking your orange juice and getting nauseous over the scrambled eggs running inexorably off your plate onto the floor, the coach of the Harvard women's swim team is sitting down to dinner somewhere in Leningrad...
Besides, the Russians know how to cope with cold. Moscow, Kiev, Leningrad and other major cities all have superefficient subway systems, as well as good if overcrowded bus and streetcar service. The use of private cars is so limited that there are no traffic jams or parking problems. In any case, the streets are swept bone-dry by thousands of snowplows. Giant "snow eater" machines called snegouborki scoop up the snow and dump it onto conveyor belts, which deposit it in trucks, which unload it into the Moskva River. As the first flakes fall, at any hour...