Word: nikolai
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Gorbachev's two liberal economic advisers, Stanislav Shatalin and Nikolai Petrakov, who were among the chief architects of the 500-Day Plan, say their handiwork "horrified" and "galvanized" the conservatives and led to a crisis session of the party leadership. According to Shatalin, one of the strongest opponents of his plan was Valentin Pavlov, who was then Finance Minister. It was Pavlov, recently appointed Prime Minister, who last month cast a chill on investors from abroad by accusing Westerners of plotting to flood the Soviet market with billions of rubles, wreck the economy and ultimately overthrow Gorbachev. Two weeks...
...Ashoke Ganguli, whose train journey through the Indian countryside begins the film “The Namesake,” Russian writer Nikolai Gogol’s short story “The Overcoat” radically changes his life. Because of Gogol, Ganguli moves to the United States and embarks on a journey he could not otherwise have imagined. He even nicknames his Indian-American son after the author, giving the movie he theme behind its title.Actor Kal Penn, who plays Gogol, also credits a certain work of art with inspiring a radical career change. The work...
...artistic authority grew rapidly. He started lecturing and publishing theoretical works, and in 1925 he launched the Analytical Art School in Leningrad. Under Filonov's guidance, some of his students presented an exhibition of analytical art in April 1927, and designed sets and costumes for a Leningrad performance of Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector General...
...agent by MI6, the overseas arm of British intelligence, to reveal the identities of several dozen Russian secret agents stationed in Europe. He retired in 1999, but used his intelligence connections to keep working for the British, earning an estimated $100,000 before his arrest in December 2004. CHARGED. Nikolai Zavadsky, 54, husband of the late Larisa Zavadsky, curator at Russia's Hermitage Museum, and his son, also Nikolai Zavadsky, 25; with theft; in St. Petersburg. Zavadsky senior confessed to helping his wife smuggle 53 items, including gifts to Russia's last Tsar, out of the Hermitage. A further...
...that Russia shun Western capitalism and return to her Slavic origins. But Aksakov, best known for his trilogy, A Russian Gentleman, extended his hospitality to pro-Western thinkers too, ensuring lively debates involving such literary luminaries as Fathers and Sons author Ivan Turgenev and writer Alexander Gertsen. The writer Nikolai Gogol, whose works reflected Russia's vagaries and antagonisms, was a regular participant. It was here that Gogol first read aloud chapters of his never-to-be-completed novel, Dead Souls...