Word: odessa
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Robert finally decided to concentrate on a serious concert career, toured Europe from London to Odessa, then North Africa and South America. With Gaby he played two-piano recitals...
...North Africa, in Sicily, in Italy, in Normandy, in southern France, on the east bank of the Rhine. This time the Germans felt the false hopes of abortive offensives, Atlantic Walls and secret weapons-and still hollower feelings after the fall of Tunis, Sicily, Naples, Rome; Kharkov, Kiev, Odessa, Bucharest; Paris, Marseilles, Antwerp; Riga, Sofia, Warsaw, Budapest; Aachen and Cracow; Frankfurt and Danzig; Essen and Vienna; Magdeburg and Nürenberg; Bremen, Milan, Munich, Berlin...
...long years the citizens of Ismail, Bessarabian city on the lower Danube, have shared a suppressed desire. In 1912 they ordered a statue of Catherine the Great's famed General Suvorov, Russian hero who liberated the city from the Turks. In nearby Odessa a suitable equestrian statue of the general was made, and was ready for shipment when World War I broke out. When that war was finished, Ismail was no longer part of the Russian Empire, and the new Red Russia was not interested in the memory of Tsarist heroes...
...bronze General, lying on his side, bided his time in an Odessa cellar. Last week, with Ismail again Russian and Russia again interested in its heroes of the past, the General was hoisted out of his hideout, dusted off and readied for his 120-mile journey to Ismail's public square...
April 9, having pushed into Bessarabia, the Russians assault Odessa and push into the Crimea...