Word: likhachev
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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Icons bought up at the turn of the century by N. P. Likhachev, whose collection is now in Leningrad's Russian Museum, and I. S. Ostroukhov, whose collection is now in Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery, laid the basis for scholarly study. Cleaning them for the first time in centuries was a revelation. Says Soviet Expert Victor Lasareff: "In place of dark, gloomy icons coated with a thick layer of varnish, [viewers] beheld glorious works of art, radiant with colors as bright as precious stones. They blazed with the flame of cinnabar; they caressed the eye with their subtle...
...Make a Fuss!" The most conspicuous case of stardom sickness recently befell Edouard Streltsov, darling of Moscow's soccer fans. When Edouard hit the big time in 1955 as center forward on the "Torpedo" team of the Moscow Likhachev (formerly Stalin) Auto Plant, he was a clear-eyed, husky youth of 17. But then his sporting instincts turned to women and wine...
...with everything until last spring he raped a girl named Tamara. Tamara refused to be bribed into silence, and the case wound up in court. There, keeping his face turned away from the public, a ruined Edouard sobbed out his answers: "You worked where?" "In the committee of the Likhachev Auto Plant." "In what capacity?" "I played soccer." His sentence: twelve years at hard labor...