Word: neva
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tatlin's chef-d'oeuvre-a monument to the Third International-was a soaring behemoth of girders that was to be erected over the Neva River in Leningrad. It would have been the world's highest structure. A 22-ft.-high model was displayed in Moscow in 1920 and a new version of it in Paris in 1925. But it was never built. Engineers in Stockholm have reconstructed the model from photographs, complete with four slowly revolving inner structures shaped variously like a pyramid, a hemisphere and two cylinders. Overall, Tatlin's monument looks rather like...
...White Nights." For most tourists, Leningrad, the old czarist capital of St. Petersburg and cradle of the Revolution, with its superb setting on the Neva River, is the handsomest city in the Soviet Union. Number one draw is the Hermitage Museum, which contains a dazzling art collection of nearly 3,000,000 works that includes a whole room of Rembrandts, and the world's finest assemblage of Gauguins, Matisses and early Picassos. Two other great sights: the Peter and Paul Fortress housing the tombs of all the Romanovs from Peter the Great to Alexander III (except Peter...
...unhurried tourist, there are trips by steamer, excursion boat or hydrofoil on the Volga and Don rivers from Kazan to Volgograd to Rostovon-Don, along the Dnieper from Kiev to Kherson, up the Neva from Leningrad to Petrodvorets. For the most part, tourists report that the equipment is modern and the service excellent. Says Pomona, Calif., Attorney Graham Talbott, who took his wife on a six-day cruise down the Danube from Vienna to Yalta: "The only annoying aspect was a Big Brother speaker over your bed that never quit issuing orders from the time it woke...
...lecherous holy man Rasputin. Brave talk. The prince was nearly dead on his feet after he had dispatched the wild monk by feeding him enough cyanide to kill a regiment of Cossacks, blasting him with a revolver, beating him with a rubber truncheon, and dumping him into the Neva River. Now, 50 years after the murder, the prince will have the pleasure of watching someone else do the job. His recent book, The End of Rasputin, is being filmed near the prince's home in Paris, with English Actor Peter McEnery giving the fatal mugging to Gert (Goldfinger) Frobe...
...Married. Neva Goodwin Rockefeller, 22, daughter of Banker David, a Radcliffe graduate and aspiring playwright; and Harvard English Professor Walter J. Kaiser, 35; in Pocantico Hills...