Word: nikolais
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first American tour, in 1923, the company performed four plays, including Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters. It returned with those two dramas, an adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls, and a new "realistic Soviet" play, Kremlin Chimes, all of which were warmly praised by the newspaper and magazine critics...
...Overcoat. In Nikolai Gogol's short story, as in this brief and virtually flawless film from Russia, Akaky Akakievich is a hunched, squinty-eyed penpusher, ridiculed at his office, who all winter long must suffer the cold winds of St. Petersburg whipping through his gauze thin overcoat. Compelled to buy a new one at painful cost, he talks to it, sleeps with it, defends it against a threatening moth. Next day, miraculously, Akaky Akakievich and his overcoat create a sen sation at work. His former tormentors are now backslapping friends; he is even invited to a champagne party...
...Siberia. With Stalin to back him, Lysenko became absolute dictator of Soviet biology, including agricultural research and development. In 1940 he sent his opponent, Professor Nikolai I. Vavilov, Russia's leading geneticist, to die in Siberia. He purged or silenced other critics in universities and laboratories. While Stalin lived, no one dared to disagree with Lysenko. His primitive exercises in plant and animal breeding had few successes, and lack of dogma-free research contributed heavily to the poor performance of Soviet agriculture...
Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol. When the Stanislavsky-directed Moscow Art Theater last appeared in New York in 1924, it was the apostle of a new dramatic naturalism bent on depicting man with all his mental warts, body aches and soul pains. For U.S. actors it was a kind of Magna Carta, freeing them from stilted and artificial stage conventions. In more recent years, the Stanislavsky Method has suffered the old age of any revolution, which is to become a religion. The esthetic irony of the Moscow troupe's reappearance on the Broadway scene is that 41 years have...
Khrushchev's successors have picked up where Nikita left off. To Ankara last week came the first Russian parliamentary delegation in 31 years to visit Turkey, headed by the Presidium's prestigious Nikolai Podgorny. For months the Russians had paved the way for the visit with Premier Ismet Inönü. Once they were pals of the Greek Cypriots, but more recently they seemed to sympathize with the Turks, their historic enemies, in the Cyprus dispute, and Podgorny was all smiles and promises. "You ask, and we give you everything," he said, "investments, financing and Cyprus support...