Word: livadia
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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...
With breathless enthusiasm, the newscasters announced that the eight-day meeting of the Big Three in the 100-room Crimean castle of Livadia had ended. (They had a clean beat, for many an afternoon newspaper had suspended publication because of the holiday...
Such was Yalta when the late, great Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and his party of Yankee innocents abroad arrived to visit Tsar Alexander II at his summer estate, Livadia. In the same expanse of gardens and palaces, Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill had their second meeting. Clemens said of the setting...
Tsar to Lenin (Max Eastman-Herman Axelbank). An amateur photographer, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia amused him self one summer afternoon in 1913 by snapping his guests and letting them snap him in and about his swimming pool at Livadia. Intended for the royal album, these naive shots turned up last week un der very different surroundings - the screen of New York's Filmarte Theatre, as part of a seven-reel documentary film tracing Russia's history through the War and the 1917 Revolution. Assembled on the general lines of Laurence Stallings' The First World...