Word: nikolais
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...first victims of the curious cult that sprang up after the recent death of Nikolai Lenin was the name of the former capital of Russia. The city built 200-odd years ago by Peter the Great on the banks of the Neva flourished under the name of St. Petersburg. But the War taught us that St. Petersburg was a naughty German way of saying what the Russians, who were then our brave and gallant Allies, called Petrograd. So Petrograd it became. Maps were being changed so much that cartographers did not object...
...Communist Town Council of Chambon-Feugerolles voted to have one of the streets named after Comrade Nikolai Lenin...
Came the news that War Lord Trotzky, who is convalescing at Tiflis in Georgia (extreme southwest Russia), only recently received the news of Nikolai Lenin's death (TiME, Jan. 28). Said...
Mahatma Gandhi, Indian-Non-Co-operatist: "One Bishop Charles H. Brent, chancellor of Hobart College, N. Y., selected for his students the 'four greatest men of the 20th Cen-tury.' He named: Woodrow Wilson, Cardinal Mercier, Nikolai Lenin and myself...
...theatre in Moscow, draped in mourning for Lenin, the Congress of Soviets of the Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics met to elect a successor to Nikolai Lenin, late Chief Executive...