Word: petersburg
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They first seeped up in a St. Petersburg newspaper in 1903 and were included two years later in a Russian book about the coming of the Antichrist. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion made chilling reading, a description of a conspiracy at the highest levels of Judaism to dominate the world by stealth. Where and when they met is not made clear. But according to the document, the elders carefully laid out a perverse plan: "Corrupt the young generation by subversive education, dominate people through their vices, destroy family life, undermine respect for religion, encourage luxury, amuse people...
Born Georgi Melitonovich Balanchivadze in St. Petersburg, the son of a composer, young George got into ballet by accident. Accompanying his sister to a tryout at the Imperial School of Ballet, Balanchine found himself accepted after he walked across the floor in front of the judges, who were impressed by the nine-year-old's strength, posture and fierce, aquiline good looks. By his mid-teens, he was choreographing. After leaving Russia in 1924, Balanchine made his way to Paris and at 21 became balletmaster of Serge Diaghilev's famed Ballets Russes...
...October 17th, 1896, when the first production of The Seagull opened in the State Theater of St. Petersburg, it was a resounding disaster. The play was poorly understood by its actors and poorly acted. Hissed down by the audience, it was dismissed by critics as inept and absurd Playwright Anton Chekhov, confounded by the disaster, left the theater after the second act, vowing never to write a play again...
...reckoning for the gorgeous playthings that the royals and the royally rich acquired insatiably in the three or four decades before World War I. The most sumptuous, superbly crafted of these frivolities were made by Peter Carl Fabergé, jeweler to the Romanovs, whose establishment in St. Petersburg poured out cascades of baubles and bibelots for nearly 50 years before the Bolsheviks banged on the door...
Seaver is perched on the edge of a training table in St. Petersburg, Fla., after pitching five innings against Toronto, allowing four runs in the second inning but none in the others. There is that signature streak of dirt on Seaver's pant leg below his right knee, residue from the relentless scraping of an unchanging delivery. He has not changed so much at that. Most young throwers get to the major leagues with "good stuff' and only fall back on pitching later. But Seaver could always pitch...