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...they are Russian Pentecostalists, revivalist worshipers who want to emigrate to the U.S. with the rest of their families. Thus far, the Soviet Union has blocked their efforts. Last week, in the most dramatic in their 20-year battle, two of the seven, Augustina Vashchenko, 52, and her daughter Lidiya, 30, were on a hunger strike and failing fast. "Lidiya is down to her last reserves," said visiting Pennsylvania Congressman Bud Shuster. "It could become a life-threatening situation...
Back in June 1978 the seven crashed past Soviet guards and into the U.S. embassy, seeking to go to the U.S. Pyotr Vashchenko, now 55, Augustina, and their three daughters, Lidiya, Lyubov, 29, and Liliya, 24, along with Fellow Believers Mariya Chmykhalov, 59, and her son Timofei, 19, had traveled 2,000 miles by rail from the Siberian town of Cherno-gorsk. Thwarted by Soviet intransigence since then, the dispirited Augustina and Lidiya have now stopped eating in a desperate bid to win world attention and shame the Soviets into relenting...
Ernest Simmons, formerly chairman of the department of Slavic languages and literature at Columbia University, suffers from the biographer's occupational disease -a constitutional inability to leave out any detail, however trivial. But his book does build to considerable power. Using new source material, Simmons demolishes Writer Lidiya Avilova's claim, put forth in her book Chekhov in My Life, that she was the writer's secret lifelong passion. Chekhov's only love. Simmons insists, was Olga Knipper, one of the first of a long series of famous actresses (including Dame Sybil Thorndike. Dame Judith Anderson...
...Accompanied by members of his family and his childhood schoolteacher, Lidiya Shevchenko (up for the holidays from Khrushchev's native village of Kalinovka), distributed gifts to several hundred high school students under the spreading New Year's tree in the Kremlin...
Meanwhile, a small pyre must be built for those who had helped prepare the plot against the doctors. They, said Beria's communique, "have already been arrested and brought to criminal responsibility." Besides Ryumin and Ignatiev, there was another victim: Lidiya F. Timashuk, a grandmother and a physician. Lidiya Timashuk was decorated last January with the Order of Lenin,the Soviet Union's top order, "for exposing the doctor assassins." "She fought," said Pravda, "as one fights with enemies of the homeland-a life and death struggle." Last week Dr. Timashuk was stripped of her decoration because...