Word: pavlovitch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane was a three-year-old ANT-25 (the initials for Designer A. N. Tupoleff) monoplane with one engine, 112 ft. wingspread. To fly it Dictator Stalin chose, not Sigismund Levanevsky as announced, but three other "Heroes of the Soviet Union"-Pilot Valeri Pavlovitch Chkaloff, 33, Co-Pilot Georgi Phillipovitch Baidukoff, 30, and Navigator Alexander Vassielievitch Beliakoff, 40. Last year this trio flew the same plane on a 5,858-mi. non-stop circuit of the Soviet Arctic. Because Levanevsky's failure on a transpolar flight two years ago brought unfavorable publicity, this year's venture was kept...
...Vision of St. Francis" in the John Graver Johnson Collection in Philadelphia; the "Annunciation," purchased from the Soviet Government four years ago. The history of the Metropolitan's diptych is well known. It was discovered in Spain by the Russian Ambassador Dmitri Pavlovitch Tatischev, was bequeathed by him to Tsar Nicholas I, who placed it in the Hermitage Museum in 1845. The same agent, President Charles R. Henschel of Knoedler & Co. who acquired the "Annunciation," reputedly for Andrew Mellon, finally after years of secret conferences in London, Paris, Berlin closed the Metropolitan's diptych deal. What he paid...
Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch arrived in New York Nov. 12 on S. S. Ile de France. With him were his wife, Princess Iljinski (Audrey Emery of New York) and their small son Paul...
...Graham did the sacrificial dance in accordance with the spirit of the whole production-jerking, stamping, lunging in the manner which seems to some beholders insane, to others sublime. Many seeing and hearing understood for the first time why the Paris production, put on by the late great Sergei Pavlovitch Diaghilev in 1913, was greeted by a riot, the audience shouting so that the dancers, unable to hear the music, continued only by watching the master's beat in the wings. Some even reacted like the Londoner who said it was a "threat against the foundations of our tonal...