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Unexpectedly, the couple must decide on a name quickly, and settle on Gogol, the surname of Nikolai Gogol, a Russian author whose work Ashoke is convinced saved his own life years earlier. Gogol Ganguli is born into a world of multicultural sensibilities, his name an indication of his own hybrid existence...
Through the 19th century, several more churches and administrative buildings were built on the grounds of the monastery. Famous Russians, from the writer Nikolai Gogol to founder of the Tretiakov Gallery Sergei Tretiakov, were buried in its cemetery...
...late for the old revolutionary to rise. He had some coffee, but it did not take, and he went back to bed. By evening Lenin was running a high fever, as Oxford historian Robert Service recounts in Lenin: A Biography. Lenin's Bolshevik buddy Nikolai Bukharin was there at the end: "When I ran into Ilich's room, full of doctors and stacked with medicines, Ilich let out a last sigh ... Ilich, Ilich was no more...
...triumphale.” The concert also includes classic works for winds like Walter Piston’s “Tunbridge Fair,” Gustav Holst’s First and Second Suites for Military Band, as well as music by Percy Grainger, Giovanni Gabrieli, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Sunday, March 2, at 8 p.m. Tickets $8, $5 students and seniors, available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone (617) 496-2222. Sanders Theatre...
...transcript suggested that the Kremlin planned to storm the theater soon after its seizure, despite claims by government officials of persistent attempts to negotiate a solution. So, the ax fell once again - Jordan left quietly, returning to his Sputnik investment business, while NTV will now be run by Nikolai Senkevich, 34, a physician until now best known in the media for a television show on an obscure regional channel and his article about hemorrhoids in a medical journal. "He is totally incompetent," is Parfyonov's judgment. Parfyonov, who is still immensely popular, is being courted by other TV stations...