Word: nikolai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anatomist, Edmond J. Farris, has developed such a remarkable chemical technique for preserving specimens that he is confident he could preserve indefinitely the body of any notable human being, at a cost of $20,000. (He deprecates the preservation of Enrico Caruso and Nikolai Lenin as "mere embalmings," suspects that the body of Caruso is secretly re-embalmed every year, says "Lenin is turning dark. He won't last...
...oldtime, inefficient professional revolutionists who brought it into being, such proof seemed to become apparent last week in the shuffled appointments of three Soviet career women. Removed without warning from the post of Commissar for Finance was Varvara Nikolaevna Yakovleva, to be succeeded by a little-known man, Nikolai Sokolov...
...Soviet Commissar for Justice Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko...
While Mensheviks and Bolsheviks struggle for ascendancy, Professor Polezhayev (Nikolai Cherkassov) does not attempt to hide his sympathy for the Bolshevik minority, is boycotted by his students, backbitten by his colleagues, betrayed by Disciple Vorobiev (Otto Zhakov). To express his feelings the professor merely quotes Darwin: "Omne nisi discipulos" ("Heaven deliver me from pupils!"). Accused of being a German spy, he sits down to his birthday banquet alone with his wife...
Young Russian Character-Actor Nikolai Cherkassov tried 250 different makeups, had each screen-tested, before he was satisfied his 32 years added up to 75. Then he convinced skeptical and hitherto unknown Co-Directors Alexander Zarkhi, 32, and Joseph Heifetz, 28, that he was the only man for the role. A follower of the Stanislavsky method of living a part, he so thoroughly transformed himself into a tottering ancient that his friends were alarmed. Most successful Soviet film since Chapayev, Baltic Deputy has been seen by 80 million Russians since its release last spring...