Word: livadia
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...mass grave of Red army soldiers, Nehru was already complaining of "an exasperating day of dust and heat and painful war memories." Flown 500 miles southwest to the Crimea, he was taken aboard a yacht which cruised along the coast to Yalta, and he slept at the Livadia palace, where the Big Three signed their wartime pact. Wherever he paused along the route he was besieged by organized groups of chil dren dancing, singing and showering flow ers on his party...
With the softness of bats, seven ghosts settled down on the flat roof of the Livadia Palace at Yalta. They found someone else already there: a statuesque female figure, crouching, with her eye glued to one of the holes in the roof (it had been through the Russian Revolution, three years of civil war, 21 years of Socialist reconstruction, the German invasion and the Russian reoccupation...
...This, Madam," said the imperial ghost, "is no strange place to me. It is our former estate of Livadia. Allow me to cite the Intourist's Pocket Guide to the Soviet Union: 'This estate occupies 350 hectares of land, and includes a large park, two palaces and many vineyards. The newer palace [you are standing on its roof], built in 1911 by Krasnov in the style of the Italian Renaissance, is of white Inkerman stone, and contains nearly a hundred rooms. It has now been changed into a sanatorium for sick peasants, although certain of the rooms have...
...Even though some of the appointments of Livadia Palace were luxurious, the plumbing was elementary. Explained Correspondent Cornell: "Supplementary ('Chic Sale'), facilities were installed outdoors; wash basins, pitchers and buckets were supplied indoors...
...This, Madam," said the imperial ghost, "is no strange place to me. It is our former estate of Livadia. Allow me to cite the Intourist's Pocket Guide to the Soviet Union: 'This estate occupies 350 hectares of land, and includes a large park, two palaces and many vineyards. The newer palace [you are standing on its roof], built in 1911 by Krasnov in the style of the Italian Renaissance, is of white Inkerman stone, and contains nearly a hundred rooms...