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Word: ouratieff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this musical remake of the 1936 play, she is the Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna, a 1920s Parisian exile from the Winter Palace of Czar "Nicky." With her is her consort. General Mikhail Ouratieff, played with the suppleness of a tin soldier by Jean Pierre Aumont. For food, resourceful Tatiana steals artichokes; for fun, the local White Russians have dances in their peasant pantskis-Kazachoks. waltzes, soft shoe, maxixe, tangos, polonaises-name it, they do it. Mikhail carries around 4 billion francs that the Czar gave him "as a sacred trust." come the counterrevolution. As of 1927, a sly Bolshevik commissar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Muzhikal | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

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