Word: petersburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edith Almedingen was born in St. Petersburg 46 years ago. Her autobiography, Tomorrow Will Come, was a slight, delicate and frightening record of her first 24 years. It began with a poetic evocation of St. Petersburg, ended with her escape to Italy-a steppingstone to her home in England, where she landed in 1923, "tired, ill, and more than uncertain of the future...
...early 19th Century the fur-hunting Russians came pelting down the Pacific coast from Alaska, established a colony some 50 miles north of San Francisco. War between Russia and the U.S. might have resulted, but just then the sea-otter trade began to peter out, the Court of St. Petersburg lost interest in its California and Oregon claims...
Born in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), Kostelanetz made his professional debut as a concert pianist at the age of eight, and won his first major conducting assignment as Conductor of the Petrograd Grand Opera Orchestra when 19. He came to this country in 1927, and in 1930 was made conductor of one of the symphony orchestras of the Columbia Broadcasting System...
Woman of Faith. Alexandra Mihailovna (as Russians call her) grew up in a setting lifted straight from Turgenev. She married a cousin, Vladimir Kollontay, bore him a son and left him, all within three years. She rebelled against the brittle brilliance of St. Petersburg society, dove into the pinkish dawn of social revolution. At 24 the police nabbed her, pink-handed, in an attempt to start a strike among girl textile workers. Her father whisked her abroad. That...
...political color sense. She met Lenin in London, Trotsky in New York City. She joined the old Russian Social Democratic Party before there was a Communist (Bolshevik) Party. When the split came, she spurned the Bolsheviki (the majority), embraced the Mensheviki (the minority), and went back to St. Petersburg to take a small hand in the 1905 uprisings. In 1911 she was fighting capitalism in Paris, in 1912, militarism in Stockholm, in 1913, anti-Semitism in London...