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...parents, Sadie and Alvin Sr., were notnative New Yorkers. In fact, they met in eighthgrade in the 22,000-person town of Petersburg,Va., 22 miles southwest of Richmond...
There are few of them left nowadays, and they are mostly ignored. On May 9, however, elderly veterans of the Red Army will turn out all across the former Soviet Union to celebrate their victory 50 years ago over Nazi Germany. In Moscow and Kiev, in St. Petersburg and Nizhni Novgorod, authorities are organizing rallies and parades to honor the old soldiers. And the old soldiers, rows of military medals pinned to their civilian clothes, are reminiscing about the war, the friends they lost and the savage, tragic history of the country they saved. Their stories are of heroism...
ANNA ZOSIMOVA, 72, works as a school administrator in St. Petersburg. "It seems strange to say it, but those were good years," she says of the war, showing pictures of herself in her air-defense uniform-a dark-haired young woman with strong shoulders developed digging trenches during the 880-day siege of Leningrad. "I was young, and when you are young, you are happy. I loved to dance, and we used to have parties as often as we could. We worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week, doing hard work, shovel work. But we had time...
...PETERSBURG, Fla.--Rob Zamuner scored twice, including a shorthanded goal, and J.C. Bergeron stopped 29 shots as Tampa Bay defeated the New York Islanders...
Baldin's trove--whose existence was first officially revealed in 1990 and exhibited in St. Petersburg in 1993--is among the mass of art stolen from German collections that has only recently come to light in Russia. Some of the most celebrated of these works, a collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, will go on display this week at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. The exhibit comes on the heels of another display of looted art mounted a few weeks ago by the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. These exhibitions have renewed an emotional, historically charged debate over...