Word: nikolaevich
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...that a reference to [Lev Nikolaevich] Tolstoy...
While trying to piece together exactly what happened to the bodies, Radzinsky detected some intriguing discrepancies. Then a mysterious visitor, whom he identifies only as an old man who worked in the state security organs, claimed that two victims had survived, one of them Alexei Nikolaevich, the Csarevich...
...said again and again. "How is it possible that in a country of 150 million people with such talent, such a huge territory, such rich resources, people should live so poorly?" Shouted a burly woman pressing against police lines in Chelyabinsk: "We should be in there listening to Boris Nikolaevich, not those partocrats!" Commented Valentina Lantseva, Yeltsin's main press aide: "It's like this in every city we've been in. People come out to support him. If they had a chance, they'd be demonstrating...
...their child's birth certificate and other documents. In Russia that is vital, for a Russian takes his father's first name as his middle name and is commonly addressed by his own first name plus the patronymic. Thus Premier Kosygin is known as Aleksei Nikolaevich (son of Nikolai). The absence of such a patronymic exposes a child to humiliation in what remains essentially a prudish society. The illegitimate child is usually given his mother's last name, but sometimes the mother refuses to register him rather than let the infamous "blank space" for the father...
...time in its history. Instead of the fiery prophet Lenin, the obsessed and brutal Stalin or the bub bly and unpredictable Khrushchev, it is led today by an oligarchy of sober, cautious bureaucrats who embody the country's new striving for respectability. Under the aegis of Premier Aleksei Nikolaevich Kosygin, 63, whose hound-dog countenance is better known in the West than the two or three others with whom he shares power, the government is experimenting with economic liberalization and cautiously widening the still narrow limits of individual freedom and expression. Ideology, long the great bugaboo of Soviet life...