Word: petersburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MARKHAM St. Petersburg...
...most gallerygoers the art of Marc Chagall has always been a good deal of a riddle. The puzzle began when Painter Chagall rushed from St. Petersburg to Paris with a canvas showing a decapitated milkmaid floating in an emetic sky while a pink cow was suckled by a pair of pea-green apes on a Russian rooftop. Paris was baffled. Even the Left Bank was slow to understand that Painter Chagall's graphic defiance of the laws of physics and biology was the work of a deeply religious, idealistic young Jew who was merely recreating from his imagination...
Sanders was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, where his father (an Englishman) ran a rope factory. He went to England as a child, became an athletic star in three schools, wound up at the Manchester School of Technology, "where for some extraordinary reason I thought I wanted to learn about textiles...
...Grew's long diplomatic life in Mexico City, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Vienna and Ankara fully revealed, T.R. had had nothing to fear. Grew had grace and kindliness, quiet firmness when it was demanded, a subtle understanding of foreign temperaments and manners...
...Composer. Dmitri Shostakovich's father was an engineer. His mother, a student of the St. Petersburg (later Leningrad) Conservatory of Music, believed that children should never be taught music before the age of nine, otherwise they become pedantic. But Dmitri Shostakovich had other ideas...