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When Katya Girenko answered the door of her family's rundown St. Petersburg apartment early one Saturday morning in mid-June, she saw two teenagers through the peephole. They asked if they could speak to her father, Nikolai Mikhailovich. When he went to the door and asked what they wanted, a gunshot rang out. The bullet smashed through the flimsy door and ripped into Girenko's chest, killing him almost instantly. At first glance, Girenko might seem an unlikely target for assassination. A tall, somewhat fragile 64-year-old with a bushy gray beard, he was an ethnographer and anthropologist...
...established the Warsaw Pact. Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, was instructed to prepare some proposals for the organization. He came up with a list of member states that did not include Albania and the German Democratic Republic...
...amazed, but I patiently tried to explain the matter to him. "Don't you see, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich, that if we form a military organization with some socialist countries but not the G.D.R. and Albania, we'll be sending a signal to our Western foes. We'll be telling them, to put it crudely, 'You are allowed to eat up Albania and the G.D.R.' We'd just be building up the appetite of the Western revanchists...
With his neatly trimmed mustache, pursed lips and pince-nez spectacles, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov seemed the embodiment of "the best filing clerk in Russia," as Revolutionary Leader Vladimir Lenin once called him. But his bland appearance, which led one British diplomat to compare him to a "refrigerator when the lights have gone out," was deceptive. In a political and diplomatic career that spanned the first four decades of Soviet history, Molotov earned the sobriquets "Old Stone Bottom" and "Mr. Iron Pants" from those who witnessed his legendary staying power at the negotiating table. Before his death...
...after the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Nabokov obsessively sought to recapture "a Russian something that I could inhale/ but could not see." There are glimpses of that Russian something in Photographs for the Tsar (Dial; 214 pages; $35), the best of the color shots that the chemist and photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii began taking in 1909 at the behest of Tsar Nicholas II. Having fascinated the Romanovs with a color slide show at the court at Tsarskoe Selo, Prokudin-Gorskii gained an imperial commission to record the art and people of the Russian Empire. He traveled widely in a private...